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Metameets 2010 Avatars and Islands? Ian Hughes/epredator Metaverse Evangelist Taking a bite out of technology so you don’t have to www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog Friday, 7 May 2010

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Are you stuck in thinking virtual worlds are just avatars and islands. What will push all this forward? Are you scared of change, just like the people scared of the current wave?A presentation at metameets 2010.Threw in an adlib on 3d printing a penny whistle to join in a RL band in a pub which may then be streamed back into SL at the blarney stone. Not all about being a puppet in a box you know.

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Metameets 2010Avatars and Islands?

Ian Hughes/epredator Metaverse Evangelist

Taking a bite out of technology so you don’t have to

www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog

Friday, 7 May 2010

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User Generated Content

Ever heard these vw excuses?

I don’t have time.Why would anyone want to...We already have telephone/

email/websites....Blah!

Blah!

Blah!NOTE! Happy to answer these still

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User Generated Content

Have you ever met, or been, someone scared or dismissive of virtual worlds?

Have you ever met, or been, someone scared or dismissive of <fill in tech as invented>

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HumanCommunication

We need go no further we have got this covered now thanks!

Distribution platform

User Generated Content

User Generated Content

Content Creation Toolshttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cave_painting,_Anthropos_(2).jpeg

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Cave Painting

Books

Film/TV

PPT

Web

More Web?

History Repeats

yet co-exist

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Banksy by badjonni http://www.flickr.com/photos/38834306@N00/2470166108/

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HumanCommunication

We need go no further we have got this covered now thanks! - I don’t think so

User Generated Content

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Avatar

Island/Sim/Room

(cc) http://www.flickr.com/photos/parkylondon/2683151688/

IVW

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Why does this have impact? It felt strange

Messing with the metaphor

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http://www.emotiv.com/

Realtime web and sensors

Haptics Touch Motion

Inputs, lots of them

Or

Better puppets Mind Melds

Brain

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This is the real POWER!DesignDuplicateDistributeDigitally

OAR IAR

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Every personcan:DesignDuplicateDistribute &ManufactureAnywhereAny Device

http://www.desktopfactory.com/<$5000

http://www.fabjectory.com

http://www.shapeways.com

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Augmented Reality

Does not have to be 1 digital layer on 1 physical view

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VirtualAugmentation

Thingsfrom other places

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PhysicalAugmentation

Thingsfrom other places

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InputsVirtual to Virtual

augmentationVirtual to

Real to Real augmentationVirtual to Real augmentation

Augmenting Inputs

Even better than a holodeck?

wetware grid(people)

Threaded by: events, narrative, timings, context, needs

metaloop

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User Generated Content

Now I really am scared

Are you ?

www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog

Friday, 7 May 2010