yuri's night 2010 presentation by bruce damer
DESCRIPTION
Bruce Damer presents a vision of a Grand Convergence between Cyberspace, Outerspace, Lifespace and Personalspace at the Yuri's Night 2010, worldwide space party, at the Northern California location: NASA Ames Research Center.TRANSCRIPT
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The Grand Convergence CyberspaceOuterspaceLifespace &Personalspace
Bruce DamerDigitalSpace
Yuri’s Night Bay AreaNASA Ames Research CenterApril 10, 2010
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Cyberspace
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What is a Virtual World?The combination of media from the 19th Century
that drove life in the 20th
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But where did our propensityfor Virtual Worlds start?
Virtual Worlds circa 25,000 BCE
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Projecting virtual worldsThrough The Lanterna Magika (1671)
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A shared experience: the Cinema replaced the earlier
Kinetoscope Parlors
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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)
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…and in 1974, the first 3D virtual worlds in Maze War – developed at NASA Ames!
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Roll tape!
Tom Uban plays Maze War on original 1974 version and machine!
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Maze War in Action
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…then in 1986 affordable personal computers are connected to dial-up networks
And Lucasfilm’s Habitat (and avatars) were born
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Roll tape!
1986… LucasFilm’s HabitatThe First Avatars!
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1986… LucasFilm’s HabitatThe First Avatars!
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Followed by an explosion of worlds in the mid 1990s…
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Explosion of Social Virtual Worlds platforms(Book Avatars by Damer – 1997)
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Alphaworld 1995“first teleport”
And in-world building
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Roll tape!
1998… Avatars98 CyberConferenceThe first “big event” in Internet Virtual Worlds
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Walking Tour of Avatars98
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…and through to the 21st Century: Avatars2001
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1990s… Beginnings of Multiplayer Gaming Worlds
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2003-present: Second Generation of Social Virtual Worlds
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Outerspace
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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
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Employing a historical actor and narrator to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Apollo XI
moon landing - demonstrated the power of the medium as a learning space
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Going where no avatar has gone before: Cyberspace meets Outerspace – Driving on Mars
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Roving the moon looking for water ice
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Getting Avatars (and then humans) to space and the
surface of an asteroid)
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Roll tape!
Design animation of a Human Missionto an Asteroid, for NASA 2007
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Design animation of a Human Missionto an Asteroid, for NASA 2007
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Roll tape!
Hubble Telescope Servicing MissionReal time 3D simulation produced for
NASA in 2009
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Hubble Telescope Servicing MissionReal time 3D simulation
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Lifespace
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The EvoGrid, a New Class of Virtual World
An “artificial origin of life” in cyberspace in this Century
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Roll tape!
The EvoGrid: An (Artificial) Origin of Life Simulation Experiment
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Roll tape!
How the EvoGrid Might Get Us to the Stars!
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Personalspace
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Burning Man… a virtual world for transformation of the self
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Augmented RealityYou become the Avatar
The Virtual World becomes the World
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Where are these Virtual Worlds and Augmented Reality headed?
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Bruce’s iDoublet ProjectGarments permit Your Avatar to walking “out-
world”
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Convergence!