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+ AnirbanBasuMallik 2 years ago
Hi there loved your presentation.
+ petervermeer 2 years ago
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+ Amit Ranjan 2 years ago
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+ Roo Reynolds 2 years ago
Virtual Worlds presentation for 'What’s IT All About' at Warwick University on November 21st 2007
+ Roo Reynolds 2 years ago
Hello. I’m Roo Reynolds, a Metaverse Evangelist for IBM

http://rooreynolds.com/
+ Roo Reynolds 2 years ago
“Metaverse”?

Well, Neal Stephenson wrote ‘Snow Crash’ in 1992. In it, he predicts virtual worlds (think William Gibson’s “cyberspace”).

“As Hiro approaches the Street, he sees two young couples … He is not seeing real people, of course. This is all a part of the moving illustration drawn by his computer according to specifications coming down the fiber-optic cable. The people are pieces of software called avatars. They are the audiovisual bodies that people use to communicate with each other in the Metaverse. Hiro’s avatar is now on the Street, too, and if the couples coming off the monorail look over in his direction, they can see him, just as he’s seeing them.”
+ Roo Reynolds 2 years ago
Some examples…

Habbo is aimed squarely at pre-teens. Cute pixel-based graphics, a heavy emphasis on decorating your personal space and meeting and chatting with friends.
+ Roo Reynolds 2 years ago
Some worlds are free-form platforms rather than games. Some even have their own economies. There.com has the Therebuck, and you can see on this screenshot the invitation to earn some of this virtual currency by building and selling products to other users. Might be a vehicle, might be clothing..
+ Roo Reynolds 2 years ago
While Second Life has the Linden Dollar (notable for being able to be converted to and from real money within the system).

In this recent screenshot, we see 31,477 people are online right now, and over $!M has changed hands between residents (e.g. users) in the past 25 hours.
+ Roo Reynolds 2 years ago
http://flickr.com/photos/shawdm/820926627/

In fact, the whole web has become largely about User Generated Content. People want to share content. They are the creators too.

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Warwick Uni Whats It All About Virtual Worlds Roo Reynolds - Presentation Transcript

Virtual Worlds and 3D Internet Roo Reynolds Metaverse Evangelist, IBM
http://flickr.com/photos/shawdm/820926627/ User Generated Content
http://flickr.com/photos/generated/416810/ Social Networking
Over the past few months, we have actively solicited input from you, the Second Life residents, on such design features as public spaces, guest rooms and exteriors – everything from color palette to space planning. After reviewing all of your comments, several changes to the overall design of aloft are a direct result from your feedback. Not only have these changes been applied to the virtual hotel, they will also be reflected in the “real-life” aloft hotels. http://www.virtualaloft.com/ aloft aloft
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