1. Faculty Seminar on
Virtual Reality
Episode 1 - Context and Introductions - 1/29/08
cory ondrejka - cory.ondrejka@gmail.com

2. before we get started

3. who are you?

4. yes, you

5. who i am

6. now, on with our program...

7. Faculty Seminar on
Virtual Reality
Episode 1 - Context and Introductions - 1/29/08

8. Faculty Seminar on
Virtual Reality ?
Episode 1 - Context and Introductions - 1/29/08

12. Faculty Seminar on
Virtual Reality
Episode 1 - Context and Introductions - 1/29/08

13. Faculty Seminar on
Virtual Reality Worlds
Episode 1 - Context and Introductions - 1/29/08

14. Faculty Seminar on
Virtual Worlds
Episode 1 - Context and Introductions - 1/29/08

15. Faculty Seminar on
Virtual Communities
Episode 1 - Context and Introductions - 1/29/08

16. Faculty Seminar on
Virtual Communities
Episode 1 - Context and Introductions - 1/29/08

17. Faculty Seminar on
Online Virtual Communities
Episode 1 - Context and Introductions - 1/29/08

18. Faculty Seminar on
Online Communities
Episode 1 - Context and Introductions - 1/29/08

19. online versus virtual
community versus world

20. online versus virtual

21. online versus virtual

22. community versus world

23. community versus world

24. not false dichotomies

25. not false dichotomies
“You are standing in the middle
of a foreboding great room.”

26. not false dichotomies
!=

27. not false dichotomies

28. nota bene
this is not a value claim

29. nota bene
it is an assertion of
difference

30. the difference between reading

31. and doing

32. or

33. 1-to-1, sequential

34. 1-to-1, simultaneous

35. many-to-many, blended

36. so, while history matters

37. focus on the edge

38. realtime
spatialized
collaboration

39. realtime

40. realtime

41. realtime

42. realtime

43. spatialized

44. spatialized

45. spatialized

46. collaboration

47. particularly media

48. consumption

49. and creation

50. and creation...

51. so, we’ll be calling it...

52. Faculty Seminar on
Virtual Worlds
Episode 1 - Context and Introductions - 1/29/08

53. why think about virtual worlds?

54. some reasons

55. millions of reasons
Online Game Online Communities Online Worlds
crapload
many
lots
a few

56. “crapload” is a term of art

57. membership hard to measure

58. some rules of thumb for
world-wide numbers:
Virtual worlds: 20 million
MMOs: 50 million
Social networks: 100 million
(with lots of overlap)

59. million$ of reason$

60. education

61. lpp

62. situated

63. situated

64. heterogeneous
65% international
41% female
50% over 35 y.o.

65. on demand

66. some more reasons

67. theoretical questions

68. not to mention

69. mass customization

70. breaking global vs. local

71. new trends

72. and my favorite

73. amateur versus expert

74. amateur versus expert

75. amateur versus expert

76. traditional situation

77. traditional situation
amateur

78. and then

79. you may want to avert your eyes

80. the experts arrive

81. the experts arrive
expert
amateur

82. with their expertness
“The essential paradigm of cyberspace is
creating partially situated identities out of
actual or potential social reality in terms
of canonical forms of human contact.”

83. but

84. in a zero marginal cost world

85. are we sure about the roles?
?
?

86. consider

90. and all this despite

91. low participation
Web Wikipedia Sims Open Source
Mainstream Media
65.00
48.75
32.50
16.25
0

92. except...
Web Wikipedia Sims Open Source
Mainstream Media Second Life
65.00
48.75
32.50
16.25
0

93. why is that?

94. so, over the next several months

95. history

97. so, not really history

98. capabilities
impacts
untested assumptions
applications

99. virtual worlds

100. and probably

101. online worlds and
online communities, too

102. plus mobile

103. whatever people are doing

104. because

105. virtual worlds today

106. are like the web 10 years ago

107. so the next 10 years should be
very interesting...

108. stop talking now

109. cory.ondrejka@gmail.com
http://ondrejka.net