Cybernode reportVirtual Worlds - Augmented Reality

and the Singularity

The Millennium Project

• 2008 at the Cyber Node

• Virtual Worlds Migration

• Augmented + Mixed Reality

• From Web to Stream

• Virtual Cognitive Assistants

We are at a point in the singularity where Virtual Worlds are to the web

as email was to the fax machine.

• 2008 at the Cyber Node

• Virtual Worlds Migration

• Augmented + Mixed Reality

• From Web to Stream

• Virtual Cognitive Assistants

We are at a point in the singularity where Virtual Worlds are to the web

as email was to the fax machine.

• 2008 at the Cyber Node

• Virtual Worlds Migration

• Augmented + Mixed Reality

• From Web to Stream

• Virtual Cognitive Assistants

We are at a point in the singularity where Virtual Worlds are to the web

as email was to the fax machine.

• 2008 at the Cyber Node

• Virtual Worlds Migration

• Augmented + Mixed Reality

• From Web to Stream

• Virtual Cognitive Assistants

We are at a point in the singularity where Virtual Worlds are to the web

as email was to the fax machine.

• 2008 at the Cyber Node

• Virtual Worlds Migration

• Augmented + Mixed Reality

• From Web to Stream

• Virtual Cognitive Assistants

We are at a point in the singularity where Virtual Worlds are to the web

as email was to the fax machine.

• 2008 at the Cyber Node

• Virtual Worlds Migration

• Augmented + Mixed Reality

• From Web to Stream

• Virtual Cognitive Assistants

We are at a point in the singularity where Virtual Worlds are to the web

as email was to the fax machine.

• 2008 at the Cyber Node

• Virtual Worlds Migration

• Augmented + Mixed Reality

• From Web to Stream

• Virtual Cognitive Assistants

We are at a point in the singularity where Virtual Worlds are to the web

as email was to the fax machine.

Cybernode 2008

• Ford Foundation (2 projects ongoing)• Lab For New Thinking in Foreign Policy

• Philanthropy and Social Justice

• Elected to Association Of Virtual Worlds Advisory Board

• Built Millennium Project Second Life Campus

• Cyber-Consultant to Interaction Intstitute for Social Change• Sisterhood for Peace in Darfur

Reality is 88 Million Polygons/SecAlvy Ray Smith

MP Second Life Campus

Reality is 88 Million Polygons/SecAlvy Ray Smith

MP Second Life Campus

Conferences and International collaboration in Second Life

The 2008 United Nations Climate Change Conference was held December 1-12, 2008 in Poznań, Poland as

well as in Second Life.

The Ministry of the Environment in Poland announces a parallel project in Second Life, to improve awareness and exchange ideas with a sophisticated global audience. A series of meetings and presentations are planned for each day of the conference from approximately 8 AM - 11AM in Second Life, throughout the conference.

Chinese Migration to

Virtual WorldsChinese CRD ( Cyber Recreation Department of the Beijing Municipal Government) has contracted with Entropia to create a “cash-based” virtual world capable of hosting 150 million people and 7 million simultaneous users, launched 9/1/2008

Google O3D Web Browser Plugin

---One Plugin To Unite Them All

15 Browsers for Second Life

Browser Plugins for Other Virtual Worlds

Google O3D Plugin could unite them all

“What happens when video games meet web 2.0? • When Virtual worlds meet geospatial maps of the planet? • When simulations get real and life and business go virtual?

•When you use a virtual Earth to navigate the physical Earth, and your avatar becomes your online agent? • What happens is the Metaverse.”

Two New Digital Divides

Temporal Spatial

Web becoming a 3 dimensional socialneighborhood to wander around in“Stephensonian” Cyberspace, no longer just a collection of 2D web pages to shuffle through

The rate of change of information is increasing in true singularity style. Forcing the rate of consumption of information up as well. Resulting in the time interval of interaction growing shorter and shorter.

Having to do less with demographics and more with the ability to adapt to change

Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality is the overlay of Cyberspace on Real Space. Location based data, graphical assistance, avatar helpers and social network annotations.

• Geo-Location • Pattern Recognition• Locally Hosted

Wireless contact lenses transmit computer images and data

directly into the eyesUniversity of Washington

Retinal Imaging Display Glasses Make Terminator Vision Possible

Japanese based, Brother is planning on a public launch of the device in 2010

From the Web to the Stream

The Stream is the new experience of the internet from a web of relatively static data to a constantly changing stream of information.

“The mainstream adoption of Web 2.0 technologies – from RSS feeds to social networks – is hastening the demise of the portal. With each new face on Facebook, and each new Twitter account, our once routine habits and traffic patterns shift. This wave of change in the way we consume, transact and interact on the Web is dis-intermediating ‘destination’ sites of all kinds. Our once centralized content has been atomized.

And yet our fundamental problem persists. We’re overwhelmed with input, yet still can’t find the one thing we need… now. Tom Tague, Reuters Open Calais

From the Web to the Stream

The Stream is the new experience of the internet from a web of relatively static data to a constantly changing stream of information.

“The mainstream adoption of Web 2.0 technologies – from RSS feeds to social networks – is hastening the demise of the portal. With each new face on Facebook, and each new Twitter account, our once routine habits and traffic patterns shift. This wave of change in the way we consume, transact and interact on the Web is dis-intermediating ‘destination’ sites of all kinds. Our once centralized content has been atomized.

And yet our fundamental problem persists. We’re overwhelmed with input, yet still can’t find the one thing we need… now. Tom Tague, Reuters Open Calais

From the Web to the Stream

The Stream is the new experience of the internet from a web of relatively static data to a constantly changing stream of information.

“The mainstream adoption of Web 2.0 technologies – from RSS feeds to social networks – is hastening the demise of the portal. With each new face on Facebook, and each new Twitter account, our once routine habits and traffic patterns shift. This wave of change in the way we consume, transact and interact on the Web is dis-intermediating ‘destination’ sites of all kinds. Our once centralized content has been atomized.

And yet our fundamental problem persists. We’re overwhelmed with input, yet still can’t find the one thing we need… now. Tom Tague, Reuters Open Calais

Can You Reason with a Fire Hose

for the word Streaming

Siri - Virtual Cognitive Assistant

SRI- SRI/DARPA (Calo) Inspired personal digital assistant for the iPhone.

Book me on the next flight from San Jose to Chicago.

“We are beginning to see a new interaction paradigm for the web: the Virtual Personal Assistant (VPA). A VPA is task focused: it helps you get things done. You interact with it in natural language, in a conversation. It gets to know you, acts on your behalf, and gets better with time.”

Tom Gruber, SIRI

Siri - Virtual Cognitive Assistant

SRI- SRI/DARPA (Calo) Inspired personal digital assistant for the iPhone.

Book me on the next flight from San Jose to Chicago.

“We are beginning to see a new interaction paradigm for the web: the Virtual Personal Assistant (VPA). A VPA is task focused: it helps you get things done. You interact with it in natural language, in a conversation. It gets to know you, acts on your behalf, and gets better with time.”

Tom Gruber, SIRI

Siri - Virtual Cognitive Assistant

SRI- SRI/DARPA (Calo) Inspired personal digital assistant for the iPhone.

Book me on the next flight from San Jose to Chicago.

“We are beginning to see a new interaction paradigm for the web: the Virtual Personal Assistant (VPA). A VPA is task focused: it helps you get things done. You interact with it in natural language, in a conversation. It gets to know you, acts on your behalf, and gets better with time.”

Tom Gruber, SIRI

Siri - Virtual Cognitive Assistant

SRI- SRI/DARPA (Calo) Inspired personal digital assistant for the iPhone.

Book me on the next flight from San Jose to Chicago.

“We are beginning to see a new interaction paradigm for the web: the Virtual Personal Assistant (VPA). A VPA is task focused: it helps you get things done. You interact with it in natural language, in a conversation. It gets to know you, acts on your behalf, and gets better with time.”

Tom Gruber, SIRI

Real-time Medical Data in Your PocketWhat would a similar display look like for global climate change tracking

what kind of communications and collaboration tools would be built-in

Don’t be left behind

“Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth... but... sail away to whole new worlds of light and life, where our friends are”

Henry David Thoreau

Join the Migration

“ A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricatural. Our world is a world of things...”

Henry Miller “The air conditioned Nightmare”