Yuri's Night 2010 presentation by Bruce Damer

The Grand Convergence Cyberspace Outerspace Lifespace & Personalspace Bruce Damer DigitalSpace Yuri’s Night Bay Area NASA Ames Research Center April 10, 2010

Cyberspace

What is a Virtual World? The combination of media from the 19 th Century that drove life in the 20 th

But where did our propensity for Virtual Worlds start? Virtual Worlds circa 25,000 BCE

Projecting virtual worlds Through 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 Habitat The First Avatars!

1986… LucasFilm’s Habitat The 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 CyberConference The first “big event” in Internet Virtual Worlds

Walking Tour of Avatars98

… and through to the 21 st 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 30 th 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 Mission to an Asteroid, for NASA 2007

Design animation of a Human Mission to an Asteroid, for NASA 2007

Roll tape! Hubble Telescope Servicing Mission Real time 3D simulation produced for NASA in 2009

Hubble Telescope Servicing Mission Real 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 Reality You become the Avatar The Virtual World becomes the World

Where are these Virtual Worlds and Augmented Reality headed?

Bruce’s iDoublet Project Garments permit Your Avatar to walking “out-world”

Convergence!

Thank You Yuri! Bruce Damer www.damer.com [email_address]

Yuri's Night 2010 presentation by Bruce Damer

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