Washing Away Cave PaintingsVirtual Worlds and Beyond

Ian Hughes/epredator Metaverse Evangelist

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

www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog

epredator’s workplace

User Generated Content

I always hear these virtual worldexcuses.

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

email/websites....

NOTE! Happy to answer these still

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>

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

Cave Painting

Books

Film/TV

PPT

Web

More Web?

It’s all the same thing?

Media and volume changes

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

Are we washing away the cave painting?

A new disruptive technology?

Threatening all business and government and social structures?

Embrace it or wither and die!

YOU can connect with anyone

“Be disruptive, be persistent, be patient. The biggest obstacles are all

human” Dr Victoria Hale,

Founder of OneWorldHealth

Boss

Sub

Boss

Sub

Boss

Sub

Boss

Minion Minion Minion Minion Minion Minion Minion Minion

Everywhere is local

So many good reasons to just be virtual...but..

Why does this have impact? It felt strange

Messing with the metaphor

Its Not All Second Life

Build Your Own. OSS/Free/Inexpensive

Avatar

Island/Sim/Room

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

IVW

DesignDuplicateDistributeDigitally

Computer Device Cave Painting

http://www.emotiv.com/

Realtime web and sensors

Haptics Touch Motion

Inputs, lots of them

Or

Better puppets Mind Melds

Brain

Design

Manufacture

Distribution

Product Life Cycle Management Cave Painting

Every personcan:DesignDuplicateDistribute &ManufactureAnywhereAny Device

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

http://www.fabjectory.com

http://www.shapeways.com

Augmented Reality Cave Painting ALREADY?

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

VirtualAugmentation

Thingsfrom other places

PhysicalAugmentation

Thingsfrom other places

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

HumanCommunication

We need go no further we have got this covered now thanks! isn’t this where we came in?

User Generated Content

User Generated Content

Now I really am scared

Are you ?

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Washing Away Cave PaintingsVirtual Worlds and Beyond

Ian Hughes/epredator Metaverse Evangelist

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

www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog