Closing Keynote presentation given at ReLIVE (Research and Learning in Virtual Environments) 2011, at the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. Video available at http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?whichevent=1760&s=1&schedule=2238

1. Where Next? Andy Piper
From the Virtual and Philosophical @andypiper
to the Real and Practical

2. Predicting the future is hard

3. 1987 - Star Trek TNG “PADD”

4. 2010
iPad

5. Hoverboards, flying cars,
1989 (showing 2015)
self-tying shoelaces

6. - Remote health care
- Real-time speech translation
- 3D Internet
- Nanotechnology applied to
environmental problems
- Mobile phones start to read
2006
our minds

7. A brief history from behind the firewall

8. IBM’s Global Innovation
Outlook 2005 identified
gaming skills as having
value in management

10. Virtual Business Center May 2007

11. Virtual Collaboration for
Lotus Sametime

12. Connecting with real
systems

13. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tipsfortravellers/3657960168/

14. Innov8 and CityOne serious games for learning

15. Innov8 and CityOne serious games for learning

16. Something changed

17. The Empty Room problem

18. The year of
2009-2010
Augmented Reality

19. Virtual Center

20. We are the Outliers

21. Meanwhile, on the interwebs...

22. What we mean by social
and virtual is being
redefined

23. Our ability to create,
connect and learn is
changing

24. A new culture?
Education & Creation

25. Trends to watch

26. We’re on a road to…
Gartner Hype Cycle, July 2011
somewhere?

27. Trend 1: 3D printing

28. Trend 2: Social TV/
broadcast

29. Trend 3: Touch and
Gesture

30. Trend 4: Big Data,
Predictive Analytics, EDA

31. Trend 5: Identity

32. Final thoughts

33. Making the future real

34. 2011: Nike release
LEGO version by
“Air Mag” shoes Alex Jones / “Orion Pax”

35. Hover boards
… nearly cracked it!

36. Thank you I’m done

37. Connect
http://twitter.com/andypiper
http://andypiper.co.uk
http://slideshare.net/andypiper

38. Image credits
• Signpost http://www.flickr.com/photos/16002150@N08/2006266695/
• Social TV http://www.flickr.com/photos/rooreynolds/3570595297/
• LEGO Nike Mag http://www.flickr.com/photos/orion_pax/6158500167/in/photostream/
• Get Excited and Make Things http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbeltjones/
3365682994/
• Others author’s own, or royalty-free and CC-licensed works
from sxu.hu and Wikimedia Commons