Bruce Damer's presentation at the Ecotechnics Institute Technosphere 2005 Conference, Synergia Ranch, New Mexico (Oct 2005)

Human Presence in Cyberspace Outerspace Streetspace Mindspace Biotaspace? Bruce Damer Technosphere Conference, Inst of Ecotechnics Synergia Ranch, Oct 9, 2005

Cyberspace: where did it come from?
Bush (Memex), Nelson
Engelbart’s vision
SRI: NLS
1968: Mother of all Demos
E&S, Imlacs 60s–1970s
Xerox PARC
Cray
Other early hardware

Visual Interfaces – Xerox PARC and elsewhere, 1970s-80s

3D interfaces - evolution
1970s wireframe to solid to ray traced – SIGGRAPH, ’74
Maze War
Alvy Ray Smith frame buffer
80s SGI
Real time rendering
Immersive VR
Commodity Virtual Worlds/Internet – 90s-2000s

Evolutionary Tree of Visual Computing Systems (DigiBarn Computer Museum)

Dimensional Cyberspaces
Simulation – weather, aerodynamics, cold war, Shuttle program
Render to film – Hollywood and TV
Experimental informational interfaces
Art/Experience - placeholder

Geographical Information Systems
Geographical Information Systems - GeoFusion textured 3D model of earth with real satellite imagery

Geographical Information Systems
Progressive texturing – Swiss Alps

Artistic and Pedagogical applications
Art/Experience – Placeholder, Osmose, Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, Krueger
Experimental Pedagogy – cyberfora @ ArtCenter - Vlearn SIG

Artistic and Pedagogical uses
VLearn3D SIG and annual cyberconference

Experimental Frontiers of 3D environments
Evolutionary virtual worlds (Sims, Biota.org)
Modeling the large and the small scale (cosmology, quantum dynamics)
Tele-immersion

Avatars and Peopled Community Cyberspaces
The original Maze War - ARPANET
1970s-80s DOD simulation and training
1980s - MUDs, MOOs text-based virtual worlds
1990s – Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM
2000s Massive Multiplayer Online Gaming

Killer App Driving Evolution - Games EverQuest
75,000 to 100,000 users online at any one time
Feature film level budget and box office

Games The Sims
Design and run your own “soap opera”, households, towns, businesses, in a sort of “puppet theater”

Games Venture rush into the virtual worlds medium
There.com
Linden Labs “Second Life”
Star Wars Galaxies
Never Winter’s Night (DandD)
20 other projects in the works
3D Chipsets, automatic shaders, real-time rendering, George Lucas: game chip short film project

Experiments in early Internet-based Virtual Worlds (1995-2002)
Contact Consortium: Silicon-Valley based nonprofit
DigitalSpace: commons-based for-profit corporation
Building and community experiments
Learning spaces
Collaboration spaces
Cyber-conferences

1995: Worlds Chat First net-based real time avatar space (Worlds Inc.)

1995: Alphaworld cityscape – a public building space on the net 300,000 users as “avatars” 1 Billion objects placed since 1995

1996: Building and Community experiments in Alphaworld and Active Worlds Sherwood Forest Towne

1996: Sherwood Towne construction experiment (featured at Ars Electronica 1997) Anthropology-driven experiment in virtual community construction

1996: User-created emergent social structures & activities – wedding Emergent space, experience, bottom-up contributions from community

1997: Generative Virtual Spaces Biota.org Nerve Garden, Siggraph

1998-99: Experimental Learning Spaces Virtual walk on the moon with Apollo IX astronaut Russell Schweickart

Experimental Learning Spaces Virtual walk on the moon with Apollo IX astronaut Russell Schweickart

1998: Experimental Collaboration Spaces Datafusion “war room”

1998-2003: AVATARS Cyber-conferences Annual festival of the avatar commons “the Burning Man of Bits”

1998-2003: AVATARS Cyber-conferences Avvy Awards

1998-2003: AVATARS Cyber-conferences Mixture of physical and virtual venues Cybertradeshow created by database

Case: Avatars2001 a cyberspace odyssey

Case: Avatars2001 a cyberspace odyssey Multiple worlds, staging of attendees

Film/Story Reenactment Case: Avatars2001 a cyberspace odyssey

Case: Avatars2001 a cyberspace odyssey

Case: Avatars2002 a merry cyber party Novel/Story Reenactment

Case: Avatars2002 a merry cyber party

Outerspace Human presence in the solar system

Apollonaris Volcano and Gusev Crater Mars Planetary Fractal Model

View to Gusev and Apollonaris (exaggerated scale) Mars Planetary Fractal Model

Drive On Mars
Inspired by Pathfinder/Sojourner experience in 1997: QTVR and VRML rich media
Virtual worlds are highly effective outreach tools, much lower bandwidth than video, higher interactivity, full distributability (a la SETI@Home)
Based on 4 years of platform development at Ames/RIACS and Digital Space: BrahmsVE platform

FMARS, Devon Island, Canada BrahmsVE: FMARS Analogue Habitat simulating people on other planets

Planning meeting, water tank filling, EVA prep BrahmsVE: FMARS Analogue Habitat

R2D2 (or C3PO?) PSA Robot aboard a Virtual Space Station

PSA Robot aboard a Virtual Space Station

Return to the Moon: tele-robotically

Streetspace A collaborative cyber-fashion event and online mystery game Fashion Institute of Technology & Simon Fraser University April 23, 2003

Team Distance Learning in Virtual Worlds Storyboard

Range of environments: 2D, 3D, physical, virtual, live
Range of media: Fashion drawings, virtual construction (garments and characters), interactive narrative, game, live performance
Distributed international team
Interdisciplinary communicating, thinking, working, negotiating
Team Distance Learning in Virtual Worlds

Shared Virtual Stage Set in Atmosphere Team Distance Learning in Virtual Worlds

Garments modeled on Stage Set Team Distance Learning in Virtual Worlds

Physical modeling of garments Team Distance Learning in Virtual Worlds

Future Tech Directions
Poser 5 Cloth Model, with a revolution in 3D Chipset performance
The tie-in with apparel: Whole Garment Knitting, CAD/CAM comes to fashion?
Team Distance Learning in Virtual Worlds

Whole Garment Knitting CAD/CAM comes to the apparel business (Shima Seiki) Team Distance Learning in Virtual Worlds

Golem: the ultimate Avatar? Merger of Movie Special FX and online Virtual Environments? Golem (Serkis) as the ultimate avatar

CyberWearz: Digital Garb

Cyberize-Me!

Mindspace Mental Health: Phobias Disabilities: prostheses

Avatar – the Digital You You in Streetspace DoToLearn: reaching the autistic child

Biotaspace Where is life headed?

Acknowledgements and Resources
DigitalSpace Team Colleagues, Galen Brandt, Alex Grigny de Castro
Contact Consortium Colleagues, Bonnie DeVarco, Mike Heim
Datafusion Inc. Joel Schatz, Chris Rathe
NASA Ames Research Center, Bill Clancey, Maarten Sierhuis
Active Worlds Inc. Rick Noll
Adobe Systems Inc. Michael Kaplan, Bahman Dara
GeoFusion, Chuck Stein
Arlington Institute, John Peterson
Daria Dorosh, FIT, Steve DiPaola, SFU
Drive On Mars, BrahmsVE, PSA: Dave Rasmussen, Merryn Nielson, Ryan Norkus, Peter Newman, M Sierhuis, W. Clancey, B. Brodsky
Mars Terrain Modeling: Ken Heidenreich & students, Ruth Fry, Ken Musgrave, Pandromeda, DS team for FMARS habitat, Geoff Briggs for inspiration
Andy Serkis, Lord of the Rings
Karl Sims, Char Davies, Brenda Laurel, Rob Tow
DigiBarn Computer Museum & Supporters
Ron Britvich, Roland Villett
Rich Didday
Virtual World Studios, Allan Lundell, Sun MacNamee

Acknowledgements and Resources
This presentation is available online as HTML at: http://www.digitalspace.com/presentations/cyberworlds-2003/bruce/
Powerpoint version is at: http://www.digitalspace.com/presentations/cyberworlds-2003/bruce/index.ppt
Contact: http:// www.digitalspace.com/forms/comment.html
www.digitalspace.com The Digital Space Commons
Digital Space Publications: http:// www.digitalspace.com/papers/index.html
Drive on Mars: www.driveonmars.com
RATAVA’S LINE Project and Event Pages: http://www.digitalspace.com/content/atmosphere/2003/fitsfu/
www.ccon.org Contact Consortium
http://www.biota.org Biota Special Interest Group
www.vlearn3d.org VLearn3D Special Interest Group
DigiBarn Computer Museum: www.digibarn.com
Adobe Atmosphere: http:// www.adobe.com /products/atmosphere
Atmospherians: http:// www.atmospherians.com

Bonus! (This has been a vision of cyberspace for a long time)

“ Escape” in Finite State Fantasies (1976) by Rich Didday

“ Moral of the story”

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