getting real about our virtual future

Copyright Tim Jones 2010 communicatescience.com

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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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOfhuoRbnCg&feature=player_embedded






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

https://sites.google.com/site/slscgroupsite/places

http://sldataviz.pbworks.com/



http://www.journal.chemistrycentral.com/content/3/1/14

http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v8/n12/index.html%23cy

http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/v2/n3/index.html%23cy


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