yuri's night 2010 presentation by bruce damer
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Bruce Damer presents a vision of a Grand Convergence between Cyberspace, Outerspace, Lifespace and Personalspace at the Yuri's Night 2010, worldwide space party, at the Northern California location: NASA Ames Research Center.TRANSCRIPT
The Grand Convergence CyberspaceOuterspaceLifespace &Personalspace
Bruce DamerDigitalSpace
Yuri’s Night Bay AreaNASA Ames Research CenterApril 10, 2010
Cyberspace
What is a Virtual World?The combination of media from the 19th Century
that drove life in the 20th
But where did our propensityfor Virtual Worlds start?
Virtual Worlds circa 25,000 BCE
Projecting virtual worldsThrough The Lanterna Magika (1671)
A shared experience: the Cinema replaced the earlier
Kinetoscope Parlors
So where did (digital) virtual worlds come from?We first learned to play together in a digital world
in Spacewar! in 1962 (on a PDP-1)
…and in 1974, the first 3D virtual worlds in Maze War – developed at NASA Ames!
Roll tape!
Tom Uban plays Maze War on original 1974 version and machine!
Maze War in Action
…then in 1986 affordable personal computers are connected to dial-up networks
And Lucasfilm’s Habitat (and avatars) were born
Roll tape!
1986… LucasFilm’s HabitatThe First Avatars!
1986… LucasFilm’s HabitatThe First Avatars!
Followed by an explosion of worlds in the mid 1990s…
Explosion of Social Virtual Worlds platforms(Book Avatars by Damer – 1997)
Alphaworld 1995“first teleport”
And in-world building
Roll tape!
1998… Avatars98 CyberConferenceThe first “big event” in Internet Virtual Worlds
Walking Tour of Avatars98
…and through to the 21st Century: Avatars2001
1990s… Beginnings of Multiplayer Gaming Worlds
2003-present: Second Generation of Social Virtual Worlds
Outerspace
Going where No Virtual World has Gone Before: Virtual Walk on the Moon with Apollo
astronaut Rusty Schweickart
Rusty Schweickart in Cyber Space - 1999
Rusty Schweickart in Outer Space - 1969
Employing a historical actor and narrator to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Apollo XI
moon landing - demonstrated the power of the medium as a learning space
Going where no avatar has gone before: Cyberspace meets Outerspace – Driving on Mars
Roving the moon looking for water ice
Getting Avatars (and then humans) to space and the
surface of an asteroid)
Roll tape!
Design animation of a Human Missionto an Asteroid, for NASA 2007
Design animation of a Human Missionto an Asteroid, for NASA 2007
Roll tape!
Hubble Telescope Servicing MissionReal time 3D simulation produced for
NASA in 2009
Hubble Telescope Servicing MissionReal time 3D simulation
Lifespace
The EvoGrid, a New Class of Virtual World
An “artificial origin of life” in cyberspace in this Century
Roll tape!
The EvoGrid: An (Artificial) Origin of Life Simulation Experiment
Roll tape!
How the EvoGrid Might Get Us to the Stars!
Personalspace
Burning Man… a virtual world for transformation of the self
Augmented RealityYou become the Avatar
The Virtual World becomes the World
Where are these Virtual Worlds and Augmented Reality headed?
Bruce’s iDoublet ProjectGarments permit Your Avatar to walking “out-
world”
Convergence!
