Thursday, March 20, 2008
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
The I/O Question, Why I Don't Love Bees, but do Like Jane McGonigal
Hi, as I was trying to expand upon my earlier research writings, I decided to only post the new elements and not a fully revised document. I've looked into the dynamism of the I/O question (an attempt at a taxonomy) and some potential real-world uses for I/O applications (Problem-solving).
Here
On a side note, keep an eye on Jane McGonigal. While I’m not a huge fan of Alternate Reality Games (“I Love Bees”), McGonigal has some forward-thinking ideas about what games could be used for (“Happiness Hacking” and “Massively Multiplayer Science”).
Forecasting the Metaverse
As I was researching, I came across this site where smart people like Edward Castronova try to study and forecast the near-term (2016) future of the Metaverse (including Augmented Reality, Lifeblogging, "Mirror Worlds" like Google Earth, and mash-ups of these realms). This think-tank calls itself the Metaverse Roadmap. They've compiled a document in two parts, an Overview and Roadmap Inputs.
The last few pages of the Overview are pretty interesting because they look at implications. Christi, you may be interested in page 18, which raising some questions about virtual identity and relationships. What happens to people when they have 16 different identities in immersive environments? What does that kind of subjectivity or changefulness mean for society?
The Appendix (page 24) has some statistics from a web poll given to experts in the field about what they think the Metaverse will be like in the near-term. Questions like,
22. 2016, how many hours per week (0-20+) will a typical member of the U.S. population ages 13-30 use interactive, internet-accessing, 3D visual environments for EACH of the following activities?
Monday, March 17, 2008
Worlds Within Worlds
An open-source virtual world dev platform called the Croquet Project allows for the creation of "hyperportals" to other spaces. This may be of some help to the Distributed Room folks.
Hyperportals
Grid vs. Portal?
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