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Of Virtual Reality

William PrenskyChant Newall Development Group

August 2010

And are now moving to the hyper-real (3D)

Knowledge and Information Have Moved from the Real to the Simulated (2D)….

Classroom Learning E-Learning V-Learning (Virtual Reality)

At CNDG, We Create Photo-Realistic Representations of Client’s Ideas

Representations in which you can live and work

..And Infuse it With Just the Right Amount of Detail…

..So That You Feel Like You Can Touch It and Hear It—With Mouse and Arrows

With Just the Right Amount of Detail…

Your mind fills in the rest, and the individual

…Snaps Into Presence And Gets aDivided Sense of Self

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What is Developing Now

in the Real WorldThat Leads to This

Future?

We Start to Move into a Fourth Dimension—or an Enhanced Reality with New Tools

Some of us will have robots and avatars with empathy whichcan “sense” and “perceive” our moods

...And react to our body movements

Some of Us Will Soon Work With Anybots or Robot Avatars

So we can work from anywhere with a wireless connection

The Pad, Dubai -2009

The Pad, Dubai -2009

Some Will Live in “Cybertecture” Places with iReality and iFamily

Augmented Reality Will Blur The Lines Between The Real And Digital World

Sixth Sense is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world digitally

We May Use Pen Computers We Can Carry in Our Pockets With…

Monitors and keyboards on any flat surface

…And Interactive Data Glasses That Can Project An Image Onto The Retina

Providing clear information & giving hands free interaction

… Or Skinput, Using Your Arm as an Input Device, Instead of Carrying Extra Surfaces

Bio-acoustic sensing technologies allows body to be used as finger input surface

Brain Chips Will Control Computers by 2020

Brain waves will replace keyboard and mouse, dial the phones and change TV channels

Headsets That Read Brainwaves Will EnableUs to Operate Objects With Our Thoughts

So wheelchairs may be moved by brain, not brawn

The “Human Singularity”: the radical

fusion of the human body with technology to achieve levels of mental acuity and physical ability that eclipse

anything humans have previously known.

Imagine Google and Wikipedia integrated into

your brain!

And the ESIs “Enhanced Singular Individuals” Will Change Our “Norms”— We Will Enter A New World

Which fuses the human body with technology

“Digipacks” and Virtual Environments Will Transform Learning

Textbooks replaced by “digipacks”

“Alice in Wonderland” multi-user virtual environment interfaces

Obtain and create knowledge– At the right time/place/way– On the right device– For the right person

iPad – First Generation Digipacks

One-Room Schoolhouses in Second Life with a Network of Learners Will Become the Norm

Offering global access to education and information

This schoolhouse is as local to Melbourne as it is to Boston

And is available anytime, from anywhere

We Are Already Seeing Students Who Think Differently, With Hypertext Minds That Leap Around And Are Not Limited

by Geography

With cognitive structures that are parallel, not With cognitive structures that are parallel, not sequential sequential

But Students Aren’t The Only Group That Is Changing

More and more businesses are entering SLMore and more businesses are entering SL

Sodexo saved on a one day meeting: $1,700,000 on travel; 7,200 not-missed offfice hours; 450,000 pounds of CO2e not emitted

Large Group Meetings Are Now Commonly Held on 3D Platforms

http://events.unisfair.com/rt/summit~inclusion

Virtual Global Inclusion Summit-Sodexo & Microsoft: 1000 Managers from 5 continents

..And Organizations Are Constantly Experimenting with Different Platforms

200 Fortune 500 clients experienced our V-DINE (Virtual D&I Networking Event)

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What Will This Future Look Like in Second Life?

These Enhanced Realities Will Help to Create

the Fourth Dimension of Virtual Reality

A Hybrid of Real Life and Second Life

When You Enter the Metaverse in This Hybrid World

Will you know things and have a prescient knowledge?

As We Find Second Life More and More Realistic and Immersive …

What will happen when it becomes hyper-real?

We Haven’t Even Begun to See or Sense the Limits of What We Can Do

As we merge all our senses and enter into the 4As we merge all our senses and enter into the 4thth dimension of virtual reality we create a new dimension of virtual reality we create a new REALITYREALITY

As We Walk Across this Bridge We Are Building Together

We will begin to see a new vision and perception We will begin to see a new vision and perception of what we are doing, ……………… of what we are doing, ……………… Because……………….Because……………….

The Future is Not Someplace We Are Going, But Something We Are Creating...

The paths to it are not found, but made, and the The paths to it are not found, but made, and the activity of making them changes both maker and activity of making them changes both maker and destination.destination.