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A presentation by David Burden of Daden Limited (http://www.daden.co.uk/) at a monthly meeting by NVWN (http://nordicworlds.net/).
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Virtual WorldsA Future History
David BurdenDaden Limited
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Who Are We?
Immersive learning and visualisation specialists Founded 2004, but in virtual worlds since mid
1990s
Times Higher Education Winner 2009
US Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge winner 2010 Based in Birmingham UK
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What We Do….
Physical Environment Security and
Visualisation
Learning, Training and Education
Web-based Chatbots
Data Visualisation
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A Virtual Future?
Trends & Issues – developed from Delphi exercise at ReLive2011
2011 2013 2015 2020 2025 2030
Short TermMedium Term
Long Term
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Short Term – Seamless
Still too hard Needs to be in browser Needs desktop/audio/webcam/gesture integration Users vs Creators(ives) vs Professionals One World or Many Worlds Directed or Discovered Social Media Integration (not Domination)
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What if Lively Had Lived?
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What if Lively Had Lived?
Worlds
Worlds
KS2 Asteroid Explorerwww.ksresources.com/asteriodworld
An exploratory STEM environment for KS2 students to explore asteriods
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Unity + JIBE
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Short Term - Desirable
Learning Benefits for Educators Business Benefits for Industry & Government
Cost Savings Revenue Generation
Social Benefits for Consumers & Family Entertaining, Engaging & Easy
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Medium Term - Mobile
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Medium Term - Unified
Interoperability Outeroperability Infrastructure
Interfaces defined between systems
All systems share the same standards
Core data held centrally and shared with each
system
Open Source vs Open Standards
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Outeroperability - OPAL
OPALExercise
Data
Virtual World
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Infrastructure
Virtual Worlds Framework
HTML 5 – a significant upgrade in expressive power for the webWebGL – an integrated 3D graphics capabilityWebSockets – providing a full TCP/IP connection between the client and serverJavaScript – the programming language of the web
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Long Term – Radical Interfaces
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Long Term – Societal Change
How will real world development effect virtual worlds, eg cyber & influence?
How will virtual worlds effect the physical world?
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