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Virtual Worlds: The New Medium for the 21st Century
… as powerful as the combination of media from
the 19th Century that drove life in the 20th…
Projecting into Virtual Worldscirca 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
…then in 1986 affordable personal computers are connected to dial-up networks
And Lucasfilm’s Habitat (and avatars) were born
And then… Worlds Chat, 1995: where Avatars first teleported into the Internet
Also in that year Steven Spielberg created the marriage of virtual worlds and Hollywood with Starbright World
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
And emergenceof community
And shared building
Working out how to meet (talking circle) and working together to build-Sherwood Forest Towne (Jan ‘96).
Roles, Robin Hood, Town Crier, old towne layout,
new town, vandalism, first informal ethnographic
practice
1996-IRL
Building the CommunityThe Avatars Conferences - IRL and
InWorld
2004
19981999
2000
2001
2002 2003
1997-IRL
1996-2004
The Avatars IRL ConferencesEarth to Avatars 96(San Francisco)
Design of the first large scale event in avatar cyberspace: Avatars98 Inside Cyberspace
first CyberConference
AW-versionDesign elements: single large meeting space - avatars, chat, web cams,
streaming voice, bots
Visual and functional elements of Avatars98
…and through common media archetypes: Avatars2001
1990s… Beginnings of Multiplayer Gaming Worlds
2003-present: Second Generation of Social Virtual Worlds
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
Rusty became our historical actor and narrator to commemorate the 30th
anniversary of the Apollo XI moon landing
Bruce goes where no avatar has gone before: Cyberspace meets Outerspace – Driving on Mars
Roving the moon looking for water ice
And Bruce’s Avatar has gone where no Avatar has gone
before
Virtual Worlds: The New Medium for the 21st Century
What is in the future?
The answer: it may be the medium that best expresses the inner self to allow a transformation
of the outer life…
Burning Man… a virtual world for transformation of the self
Example, Bruce’s iDoublet ProjectGarments permit Avatars walking “out-world”
The EvoGrid, the Ultimate Bio-World
An “artificial origin of life” in cyberspace in this Century
To the class of ‘009…How has your life in-world changed you
IRL?
Thank you!