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Getting Real About Our Virtual Future
Dr Tim Jones
Presentation to the Jonge Akademie of theDutch Royal Academy of Arts and Science 18th March 2010
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Science Communication?
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Being together
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The Real Thing
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Video Conferencing
Picture credits top: WikiCommons, bottom: HP Halo
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Virtual World
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Joining Up
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Building
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Virtual Worlds
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Meetings & Conferences
Screenshot from a meeting organised by Metanomics to discuss the University of Texas’s project in Second Life
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Public Engagement
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Exhibitions
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Exhibitions
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Visualisation - Chemistry
DNA at Elon University
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Visualisation - Nanotech
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Visualisation - Chemistryhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
tOfhuoRbnCg&feature=player_embedded
•SLURL Chemistry Corner on Drexel Island http://slurl.com/secondlife/Drexel/241/177/23
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Visualisation – Climatology
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Visualisation - Astrophysics
3 Body Star Simulation
Photos taken in SL at StellNova. Simulation run by the Meta Institute of Computational Astrophysics (MICA)
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Visualisation - Astrophysics
MICA Data Visualization Lab
Photos taken in SL at StellNova. Simulation run by the Meta Institute of Computational Astrophysics (MICA)
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Visualisation - Biology
Standing inside a eukaryotic cell (credit Max Chatnoir, Genome Island)
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Training - Medical
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Visualisation – 3rd party support
Picture credit: Greenphosphor.com
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Much still missing from virtual worlds: like ‘expression’
Poets
..or Scientists
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Scientific Communities The SciLands
Elucian Islands Village (Nature)
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Useful links to science in Second Life
SL Science Center Group https://sites.google.com/site/slscgroupsite/places
SciLands http://www.scilands.org/Data Vizualisation Wiki http://sldataviz.pbworks.com/Meta Institute of Computational Astrophysics
http://www.mica-vw.org/wiki/index.php/PublicationsReview of chemistry research, education, visualization in SL
http://www.journal.chemistrycentral.com/content/3/1/14Getting real about our virtual future. Nature Materials, Dec 2009, Jones.
Doi 10.1038/nmat258http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v8/n12/index.html#cy
Virtual Conferences becoming a reality. Nature Chemistry, March 2010, Welch et al doi:10.1038/nchem.556 http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/v2/n3/index.html#cy
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GoodbyeEmail: [email protected]: http://communicatescience.comSL name: Erasmus MagicTwitter: http://twitter.com/physicus
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BACK-UP
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Virtual World
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Science Communication?
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Science Communication?
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Being together
