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01.01.11The Predictive Power of Virtual WorldsVirtual worlds didn't so much predict the future as provide a giant sandbox in which to explore the different ways that the future could unfold. In presentations, I often say that I could have learned about social media from Facebook, or user-generated content from youTube, but I ended up in Second Life instead - and by ending up there, was able to see that the future isn't necessarily what the conventional wisdom says it will be. I can't imagine having any particular interest in things like on-line governance, privacy, identity, virtual commerce, law, economics, or 3D content development if it ...
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05.11.10Web, Meet World: Second Life As Augmented RealitySo I've joined the east coast liberal elite. Or at least I think I have. I'm shuttered up in a little country home in the Hudson Valley where I thought I'd be wearing flannel and chopping wood, but being Canadian I have a limited sense of geography, and it turns out I should have headed to, um, Vermont or somewhere instead. So instead, I find myself headed to town in the morning to eat 20-grain bread, drink free trade organic coffee, and read the New York Times along with people who look like they're just as happy that New York ...
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04.20.10The Computer Interface is Becoming YouTwo distinct lives; the ubiquity of an online presence; the decreased attention paid to our physical self. Our physical bodies are becoming our avatars. These are the key talking points in a think-piece written by Mark Rolston, the Chief Creative Officer at San Fransisco's Frog Design, published at Forbes as part of its "Life in 2020" series. Rolston makes the case that "what's profound is that this new self can take on an outsized importance and fidelity," a marked change from when our 'second lives' outside of physical reality consisted, historically, mostly of writing: Most of us know people in these digital ...
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04.10.10iFeel_IM Robot Adds Sensations to Second LifeDebuting at the first Augmented Human International Conference was a new wearable device called the iFeel_IM, a robot intended to add physical feelings to the Second Life experience. Developed by a husband-and-wife team from Japan, the aim of the device is to increase the emotional level of online experiences by triggering feelings using the iFeel_IM's core component, the Affect Analysis Model. This model automatically senses nine emotions in text and, according to a book chapter from "Human Interface and the Management of Information. Designing Information Environments," uses haptic devices (called HaptiHeart, HaptiHug, HaptiTickler, HaptiCooler, and HaptiWarmer) to create a more ...
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01.30.10Augmented Reality Yay!I just had to share this - Cube linked it from the comments here and elsewhere and if there was a vision for a future I am NOT interested in, well, this is pretty much it. Although the help on how to make a cup of tea could be useful.
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