Version of the presentation now featuring reference to kitely and unifier. There was a

1. SO YOU THINK VIRTUAL
WORLDS AREN’T IMPORTANT?
Ian Hughes/epredator
Metaverse Evangelist
Taking a bite out of technology so you don’t
have to
www.feedingedge.co.uk
BCS Animation And Games Development

2. epredator’s workplace

3. Saturday Mornings ITV

4. http://www.itv.com/citvonline/coolstuffcollective/

5. I always hear these virtual world
excuses.
I don’t have time.
Why would anyone want to...
We already have telephone/
email/websites.
What’s the business use?
NOTE! Happy to answer these still

6. http://kzero.co.uk/
A lot going on

7. http://opensimulator.org
http://unity3d.com
http://smartfoxserver.com http://evolver.com
http://slicehost.com
Build Your Own. OSS/Free/Inexpensive

8. User Generated Content
Distribution platform
Content Creation Tools
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cave_painting,_Anthropos_(2).jpeg
Human We need go no further we have got this
Communication covered now thanks!

9. Boss
Sub Sub Sub
Boss Boss Boss
Minion Minion Minion Minion Minion Minion Minion Minion
Everywhere is local

10. Are we washing away the cave painting?
A new disruptive technology?
Threatening all business and government and
social structures?
Embrace it or wither and die!
Banksy by badjonni http://www.flickr.com/photos/38834306@N00/2470166108/

11. YOU can connect with anyone
“Be disruptive, be persistent, be
patient. The biggest obstacles are all
human”
Dr Victoria Hale,
Founder of OneWorldHealth

15. http://www.kitely.com/
http://www.secondplaces.net/opencms/opencms/virtualWorlds/unifier/

16. Messing with the metaphor
Why does this have impact? It felt strange

17. So many good reasons to be virtual

18. http://treet.tv/shows/designingworlds/episodes/imperial-college

19. Virtual
Augmentation
Things
from
other
places

20. Design
Duplicate
Distribute
Digitally

21. Physical
Augmentation
Things
from
other
places

22. Every person
http://www.fabjectory.com
can:
Design
Duplicate
Distribute &
Manufacture
Anywhere
Any Device
http://www.desktopfactory.com/
<$5000 http://www.shapeways.com

23. Human We need go no further we have got this
Communication covered now thanks! isn’t this where we came
in?

25. Even better than a holodeck?
wetware grid
(people)
Virtual to Virtual Virtual to Real Virtual to
Inputs
augmentation augmentation Real to Real augmentation
meta
loop
Augmenting Inputs
Threaded by: events, narrative, timings, context, needs

26. Badge Awarded !
http://www.slideshare.net/epredator/bcs-animation-and-games

27. SO YOU THINK VIRTUAL
WORLDS AREN’T IMPORTANT?
Ian Hughes/epredator
Metaverse Evangelist
Taking a bite out of technology so you don’t
have to
www.feedingedge.co.uk
BCS Animation And Games Development