The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference is pleased to confirm that Maria Korolov will be one of the featured keynotes in OSGrid. She brings a rich variety of experiences from her journalistic career, as well as a pragmatic view of the hypergrid. It is this unique blend of experiences that makes her an influential voice on the topic of virtual worlds. What she has to share is sure to encourage dialogue across grids.
Date: Thursday, April 10, 2014
Time: 10:05 a.m. SLT (PDT)
Location: OSGrid VWBPE Main Auditorium
Invited Keynote
The Coming 3D Future Shock
If you think technology has been evolving too fast for you to keep up with, wait until you see what’s coming down the line. The Oculus Rift and similar devices will usher in an age of immersive 3D experiences to the wider population. This will transform the delivery of virtual experiences, the way that the Web has transformed the delivery of information. The field of education will never be the same again.
Biography
Maria Korolov is editor and publisher of Hypergrid Business, an online publication tracking the development of practical uses of virtual worlds and immersive technology. She has been a journalist for over twenty years, and has reported for the Chicago Tribute, UPI, Reuters, and the Associated Press, and, more recently, a number of technology and business publications. She covered the wars of the former Soviet Union in the 90s, the tech revolution for Computerworld during the dot-com boom, China’s economic transformation as a business news bureau chief from 2004 to 2009, and has been covering immersive technology for the past five years. She also writes for Network World, CIO Magazine, PC World, Internet Evolution, and other business and technology magazines.