Virtual Worlds - A Future History

by David Burden on Nov 03, 2011

1,977 views

A short presentation given at the Immersion 2011 event and building on the Delphi exercise run by Paul Hollins at the Open University's ReLive 11 (http://www8.open.ac.uk/research-conferences/relive11/)...

More…

Less

10 Embeds 784

http://www.daden.co.uk	476
http://www.scoop.it	193
http://virtualworldwatch.net	96
http://daden.co.uk	6
http://tweetedtimes.com	5
http://a0.twimg.com	4
http://us-w1.rockmelt.com	1
http://paper.li	1
http://www.virtualworldwatch.com	1
http://translate.googleusercontent.com	1

More...

Statistics

Favorites: 4
Downloads: 9
Comments: 4
Embed Views: 784
Views on SlideShare: 1,193
Total Views: 1,977

Virtual Worlds - A Future History — Presentation Transcript

Virtual Worlds A Future History David Burden Daden Limited

Who Are We?

Immersive learning and visualisation specialists

Founded 2004, but in virtual worlds since mid 1990s

Times Higher Education Winner 2009

US Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge winner 2010

Based in Birmingham UK

What We Do…. Built Environment Visualisation, Consultation and Management Learning, Training and Education Virtual Characters Data Visualisation

A Virtual Future?

Trends & Issues – developed from Delphi exercise at ReLive2011

2011 2013 2015 2020 2025 2030 Short Term Medium Term Long Term

Short Term – Seamless

Still too hard

Needs to be in browser

Needs desktop/audio/webcam/gesture integration

Users vs Creators(ives) vs Professionals

One World or Many Worlds

Directed or Discovered

Social Media Integration (not Domination)

What if Lively Had Lived?

What if Lively Had Lived? Worlds Worlds KS2 Asteroid Explorer www.ksresources.com/asteriodworld An exploratory STEM environment for KS2 students to explore asteriods

Unity + VW Server

Short Term - Desirable

Learning Benefits for Educators

Business Benefits for Industry & Government

Cost Savings

Revenue Generation

Social Benefits for Consumers & Family

Entertaining, Engaging & Easy

Medium Term - Mobile

Medium Term - Unified Interoperability Outeroperability Infrastructure Interfaces defined between systems All systems share the same standards Core data held centrally and shared with each system Open Source vs Open Standards

Long Term – Radical Interfaces

Long Term – Societal Change

How will real world development effect virtual worlds, eg cyber & influence?

How will virtual worlds effect the physical world?

Web: www.daden.co.uk Blog: www.converj.com/blog Email: [email_address] YouTube: www.youtube.com/dadenmedia Twitter: davidburden Avatar: Corro Moseley

John Lester , Chief Learning Officer at ReactionGrid, Inc. Nice work, David. 1 month ago

Are you sure you want to Yes No

David Burden , Managing Director at Daden Limited @Eddy - Click on the More.. button and you'll see the rest of the URL 2 months ago

Eddy Bahjat at Post-production http://www8.open.ac.uk/research-conferences/reli
VERIFY THE LINK PLEASE 2 months ago

mmn Very interesting.
+ new for teaching: 3D recording from vAcademia. 6 months ago

Virtual Worlds - A Future History

by David Burden on Nov 03, 2011

Accessibility

Categories

Tags

Upload Details

Usage Rights

10 Embeds 784

Statistics

Virtual Worlds - A Future History — Presentation Transcript