bike ride over the east river in slo motion with creation rebel soundtrack
Posted on August 26, 2007 at 11:43 AM | Comment (0 comments)
[...]This is bigger than the Web. That’s a bold statement. How can I defend the statement that what we’re all working on is going to be bigger than the Web.[...]
Transcript of Founder and CEO, Linden Lab (developer of the virtual world Second Life) Philip Rosedale’s Keynote at SLCC in Chicago August 25, 2007 reported by Joey Seiler of Virtual Worlds News
[...]Q: I was wondering about your last comment in SL becoming bigger than the Web. The Web is very fast. SL is fascinating, but ti doesn’t have the immediacy of the Web. What are your visions for making SL as point and click and immediate as the Web?
A: How does it go from being very immersive but somewhat clumsy. Ajax Life is a great example. It’s an open source project that gives you a thin layer of applications. I talked earlier about Web services. We want to expose enough so that you can choose the immersiveness level appropriate to what time and activity you have to invest at the moment. That’s part of us moving away from being a Lab and into an OS. We need a great Google Map. Search itself is a major project, and you will see examples of that soon.[...]
About SLCC:
The SLCC is a volunteer run organization. The organizers and volunteers have donated their time, expertise, skills and love of Second Life towards making a gathering of this size possible. The SLCC has been about bringing people together in the real world and celebrating the revolutionary 3D platform of Second Life. The SLCC first and foremost is about bringing the many representatives of the Second Life community together to network, build friendships and to discuss Second Life in a common forum. The lead organizers and track leaders are Randy Moss/RC Mars, Nethermind Bliss, Misty Rhodes, Madame Maracas, Moo Money, Crucial Armitage, Buddy Sprocket, Jeremy Kabumpo, Nexeus Fatale and Digi Weaver. Jennyfur and FlipperPA Peregrine are on in an advisory role, and continuing to lead the team in getting sponsorships and running registration and maintaining the blog and web site.
Posted on August 26, 2007 at 10:50 AM | Comment (0 comments)
In response to my Metaverse post, 12oz user ghostdog221 shared with me an article written in the NY times about Dr. Nick Bostrom’s, a philosopher at Oxford University, assumption that “it is almost a mathematical certainty that we are living in someone else’s computer simulation.” In Dr. Bostrom’s notion of reality, the human brain would exist only as a network of computer circuits.
This reminded me of the work that NYU’s Dr. Rodolfo Llinas has been focused on. He has developed bundles of nanowires thinner than spider webs that can be inserted into the blood vessels of human brains. With this technology it might be possible to stimulate the senses directly - creating visual perceptions, auditory perceptions, movements, and feelings. Deep brain stimulation could create the ultimate virtual reality where direct communication between man and machine or human brain to human brain could become a real possibility.
Posted on August 19, 2007 at 01:22 PM | Comment (0 comments)
