I'm a software developer, employed working on desktop virtualization solutions.

In my free time, I'm a developer for Overte, and the chairman of Overte e.V., a non-profit organization created to maintain and develop Overte, an Open Source social VR platform.

Accepted Talks:

Introduction to the Overte project

This will be an introduction to the Overte project, an Open Source social desktop/VR platform, with an explanation of the project’s history, purpose, and the organization behind it.

The audience is everyone interested in an Open Source version of VR Chat, NeosVR or Second Life, or collaborative content creation.

The content covered be:

  • What is this project about?
  • The project’s history
  • What’s the provided functionality
  • Future plans
  • Short demo

Introduction to Overte development

As a follow-up to the previous talk, in this one things will get more technical.

This is mainly addressed to software developers interested in contributing to the main project (in C++), or scripting for it in JavaScript. The talk will explain how to get started and build the software, modify it, script for it, or host a server.

The content covered will be:

  • Demonstration of the software’s functionality, for context
  • Software architecture
  • Building the software from source
  • Getting started with development (C++)
  • Getting started with scripting (JS)
  • Getting started with server hosting (Linux)
  • Current development status and future plans