Slides from my talk and demo at CTO Forum, November 5 2015.

1. Virtual Reality as the
Next Disruptor
Philip Rosedale
Founder, Second Life, High Fidelity

2. 18 Degrees
of Freedom
2 Degrees of
Freedom

3. 2 DISRUPTIVE ELEMENTS:
Natural Interface
Lifelike Communication

5. SMART PHONES MADE TECH CHEAP:
Light, retina-resolution screens
Accurate, low latency sensors
INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE:
<100msec worldwide,below ITU VOIP recs
33Mbps average downstream bandwidth

7. VIRTUAL WORLD REQUIREMENTS:
Identity
Hyperlinks
Shared Content
Infinite Spaces
Large Audiences

8. NOT REQUIRED, BUT LIKELY:
Standard Protocols
Open Source
Common Formats
Distributed Servers

9. Get paid for work
Global
services
Clients
Agents
&objects
Internetworked
virtualworlds
Contributed
devices
Device assigned
from
queue
Avatar mixer Entity serverAudio mixer
Assignmentqueue
Dynamic
multicast
tree
Request
client for
assignment
Connect
to world
Login/lookup
Auth
Scripted
agents
Scripted
objects
Interactive
client
Streaming
data
Domain
server
Nameserver
N
Assignment
server
Digital
marketplace
HifiServicesOpenSourceComponents

10. 100 milliseconds

11. FIRST USES:
Education
Events
Workspaces
Building
Exploration

13. highfidelity.io
highfidelity.io