Emerging realities in metaverse, media and learning part 1 and 2

Emerging realities of metaverse, media and learning Tamme de Leur Part 1 and 2

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Emerging realities of metaverse, media and learning

Part 1: Metaverse 4 square

Part 2: Metaverse in depth

Part 3: Media World

Part 4: Learning

Part 5: Critical issue’s

Part 3: Media World

Part 4: Learning

Part 1

What is Reality?

‘ Real’ vs ‘Artificial’ The real as the ‘natural’, the real as the non-created

‘ Real’ vs ‘Fake’ The idea of ‘real’ as ‘genuine’ or the real as ‘original’ “ It’s the real thing”

‘ Real’ vs ‘Illusory’ The idea of the ‘real as something that ‘exists’

‘ Real’ vs ‘Delusion’ The idea of the ‘real’ as being the mark of ‘sanity’ or of reliable perception “ Get real” Freud

‘ Real’ vs ‘Virtual’ The idea of ‘real’ as being ‘physical’ or, at the very least, non-digital…

Reality

Our World

Emerging World

1970 – 1980: Connecting Computers

1980 – 1990: Connecting Networks

1990 – 2000: Connecting Documents

2000 – now: Connecting People & Data

Emerging World

1970 – 1980: Connecting Computers

1980 – 1990: Connecting Networks

1990 – 2000: Connecting Documents

2000 – now: Connecting People & Data

World Wide Web

Information Technological Revolution

Emerging World

Web 2.0

Social Machine

Web = 'OS' (+ offline access)

Open APIs (open standard)

RSS and Widgets

Weblogs

Social networking

Wiki’s

Tagging and tag clouds

User Generated Content (UGC)

Web 3.0

Social Machine

Web = 'OS' (+ offline access)

Open APIs (open standard)

RSS and Widgets

Weblogs

Social networking

Wiki’s

Tagging and tag clouds

User Generated Content (UGC)

Mobile

3 D Web

Metaverse

Web 3.0

Mobile

3 D Web

Metaverse

The Future = Wireless

7 th Mass Medium

Web 2.0 + Mobile = Web 3.0

The Future = 2D > 3D

2D > 3D = Web 3.0

The Future = 2D > 3D

Film

Navigation

TV

Chat

Printers

Games

Books

Photo’s

(CAD Modelling )

Web

2D > 3D = Web 3.0

Web 2.0 + Mobile = Web 3.0 2D > 3D = Web 3.0

Web 2.0 + Mobile = Web 3.0 2D > 3D = Web 3.0 Web 3.0 = Metaverse

Other worlds Universe Metaverse

Metaverse Augmention External Intimate Simulation

Metaverse Simulatie Augmention

Metaverse External Intimate

Metaverse 4 square External Intimate Augmention Simulation

Metaverse 4 square Intimate Simulation Augmention External

Virtual Worlds Intimate Simulation Augmention External

Virtual Worlds

100 milj. users worldwide

10% of all internet users worldwide

Examples:

Stardoll

MTV Laguna Beach

There.com

Multiverse

Home

CyWorld

Habbo Hotel

Second Life

The biggest virtual world

40,000 concurrency (at any time)

450,000 active users (last 7 days)

1.4 m active users (last 2 months)

10.6 milj total accounts

2 milj assets created per day

35 TB of user-created data

800,000 unique items sold or traded per month

500 events per day

15 m concurrent scripts

10 Gbps peak bandwidth

Source: http://secondlife.com/whatis/economy-graphs.php Million Square Meters of Second Life Land Total User Hours (millions) Source: Linden Lab Second Life

Second Life

10 milj. registrated users worldwide.

In Holland:

Per month 600.000 active, unique users

Per month 30.000 active users

Active users: 60 hours per month (!!!)

Growth in users: 10% per month.

In Holland

Second Life Amsterdam

Lifelogging Intimate Simulation Augmention External

Subscribe to the lives of your friends, family and others.

Read their agenda, thoughts and ideas.

Lifelogging

Blogs

iPod & Nike (GPS !)

Twitter and Jaiku/Google

Seesmic

Kyte.tv en Operator 11

Socialight (mobile tagging)

Twitter =

Connecting People & Data

Globalisation of individuals, groups and networks

Logging your life (life-logging)

Makes the invisible parts of peoples lives visible

Lifelogging Applications (1)

Personal

Fun

Community

Empathy & support

Emergency 911

Multi-tasking (TV, radio, events etc.)

Travel

Business

Communicationchannels

Information (stats, sites, recommendations, tracker)

Testing (products, campagains, concepts)

Tasks, Objectives

Partners

Brands

New web applications

Start-ups

Lifelogging Applications (2)

After Twitter ?

Blogject

Twittering animals and objects

Mobile Web Server

Seesmic

Cluztr

Dopplr

Ms. Guoleifsdottir Ms. Guoleifsdottir

Mirror Worlds Intimate Simulation Augmention External

Mirror Worlds

Google Earth/Maps

Microsoft Virtual Earth

Yahoo Maps

MapQuest

Earthmine

Everyscape

OpenStreetMap

Google StreetView

Mirror Worlds

Market leader.

> 200 milj users

3D integration

Functional, instrumental, economic

Market : everybody !

Potential bigger than virtual worlds !

MyWorld -> integration of

all Google web apps?

Google Earth

Google Earth Rotterdam 3D

Google Earth

Google Earth inside panorama’s Museum outside Tate Andy Warhole inside Tate Tate Modern Museum, London

USA Capitol

Augmented reality Intimate Simulation Augmention External

A.R.

Augmented Reality

Here and now

Stronger learn effect.

Everything is miscellaneous

(fysical + digital ! )

Fysical activity

A.R.

Augmented Reality

Emotional connection:

Strong social-relational view

Clearer historical view

More insight in proces

A.R.

Augmented Reality

Digital overlay on fysieke products in reality

Digital overlay on digitale products in reality

MOGI / Japan

A.R.

Metaverse 4 square Intimate Simulation Augmention External The Matrix ?

Metaverse 4 square Intimate Simulation Augmention External Metaverse

Metaverse 4 square Intimate Simulation Augmention External Summary

Virtual Worlds Intimate Simulation Augmention External

Lifelogging Intimate Simulation Augmention External

Mirror Worlds Intimate Simulation Augmention External

Augmented Reality Intimate Simulation Augmention External

Metaverse Roadmap http://www.metaverseroadmap.org/index.html

Part 3: Media World

Part 4: Learning

See part 3-5 in next publication

Part 2

Part 3: Media World

Part 4: Learning

Metaverse in depth

More in depth in the

metaverse reality.

What is already happening?

Demand for streaming video, data visualization and 3D data display

Detailed capture of reality

Geospatialization

Life capture

Augmented reality

Lifelogging

Virtual worlds

Mirror worlds

Metaverse in depth

Virtual worlds

Definition: 3D online persistent world with a sense of presence and simultaneous experience in context

Examples (over 30 worlds):

ActiveWorlds

Entropia Universe

There

MultiVerse

Vast Park

Metaplace

Club Penguin (pre-teen)

WebKins (pre-teen)

Second Life

Diverse Second Life residents

43% female

60% international

Top 5 countries: US, Germany, Brazil, Japan, UK

Source: http://static.secondlife.com/economy/stats_200710.xls Resident market share by age tier Average monthly hours by age tier %

Entertainment Rezzable.com “The Greenies” Rezzable.com “Black Swan” Showtime “The L Word” MTV “Virtual Laguna Beach” NBC “The Office” CBS “CSI NY” Traditional brands come in-world Rise of virtual world brands Scarlett Johansson HBO

Business Motorati SpokesAvatar: caLLie cLine H&R Block IBM Dr. Dobbs Life 2.0 Conference Cisco Best Buy’s Geek Squad Preen Principal: Aimee Weber

Academia, museums, non-profits Princeton Art Gallery Science Friday International Spaceflight Museum Computer History Museum American Cancer Society Relay for Life

Academia, museums, non-profits Princeton Art Gallery Science Friday Over 1000 universities with presence; 700 av conf may 2007; many delivering content via SL Classes only offered in-world; entrepreneurs, home schooling, SL-related (building, scripting) Multi-channel communication

Government, politics and collective action US Congress European Community US Congress – hot topic legislation Campaign HQs Davos protest

People come to virtual worlds to:

Interact, enjoy, experience, relax, explore, entertain, earn

Collaborate, recruit, conduct business

Build, create, prototype, model, simulate, test

Learn, teach, demonstrate

City of Arcadia CA Water Treatment Plant, Etopia Sim Second Health Operating Theatre, SciLands Sim

Interact

Build objects and structures

Design neighborhoods and sims Second Health, SciLands Sim 34 island multinational cross-disciplinary SciLands science complex Dublin

Learn and collaborate

Have fun

Relax

Imitate life

Virtual tourism

Governance

Land covenants

Self-governing Sims

Confederation of Democratic Simulators (CDS), est. 2004

Constitution and Code of Law

Sims: Neufreistadt and Colonia Nova

Metaverse Republic, est. 2007

Judiciary, parliament, executive

Sources: http://slcds.info , http:// neufreistadt.info , http://neufreistadt.info/id25.html (Constitution), http://colonianova.wordpress.com, gwynethllewelyn.net, http:// www.metaverserepublic.org

Economy

Reuters

Banks

Stock markets

SL Capital Exchange (US, 20 listings)

World Stock Exchange (Australia, 15 listings)

VSTEX (Italy, 7 listings)

Ancapex (US, 3 listings)

Financial exchange platforms

Tax

Source: http://secondlife.reuters.com

Buy or lease land

Purchase raw land via auction or resident-developed land

Premium membership required ($9.95/mo)

USD $13 / $5 monthly for 512 m

USD $1,675 / $295 monthly for 65,536 square meter island

Rent resident-developed land

Source: http://www.secondlife.com Available plots Available island areas 2007 2005 2003

Virtual Worlds: What’s next?

More activity

Worlds, participants, hours, content

1990s: website

2000s: sim presence

Interactive entertainment

Advanced data applications

More structure

Open source initiatives

Security, legal, economic initiatives

More tools

Search, directories

Uniquely identified objects

Geotagged photos

Virtual world archiving

Advanced data apps Intelligent pets

Advanced data apps Svarga Artificial Life Ecosystem Artificia Life, Ecosystems AL experiment on Svarga, where a complete ecology runs autonomously including clouds, rain, trees, sunshine, bees, birds, trees, flowers Pets, behavior from environmental cues; code passed out of SL to a predictor Eolus (yo-luss) swiss construction firm; integrated with SAP, RT monitoring of energy use and other factors avatars as online agents

Advanced data apps Eolus real-time monitoring

Artificial intelligence,

Genetic algorithms

Visual representation of identity information

Advanced data apps Tools: scripted objects Dynamic Internet data displays

Advanced data apps

Greeter Bots,

Landbots

GeoGlobe Urban planning mashup: Brooklyn Greeter Bot

Advanced data apps Real-time LAX airport traffic Molecular rezzer Real-time NOAA weather data Babel Fish chat translator

Advanced: use of scale Genetic structure Carbon nanotube

What is Reality?

‘ Real’ vs ‘Artificial’ The real as the ‘natural’, the real as the non-created

‘ Real’ vs ‘Fake’ The idea of ‘real’ as ‘genuine’ or the real as ‘original’ “ It’s the real thing”

‘ Real’ vs ‘Illusory’ The idea of the ‘real as something that ‘exists’

‘ Real’ vs ‘Delusion’ The idea of the ‘real’ as being the mark of ‘sanity’ or of reliable perception “ Get real” Freud

‘ Real’ vs ‘Virtual’ The idea of ‘real’ as being ‘physical’ or, at the very least, non-digital…

‘ Real’ vs ‘Metaverse’ The idea of ‘real’ as being ‘physical’ versus - as in Metaverse - augmented reality, virtual worlds, mirror worlds or lifelogging reality.