Usc Faculty Lecture 1

Faculty Seminar on Virtual Reality Episode 1 - Context and Introductions - 1/29/08 cory ondrejka - [email protected]

before we get started

who are you?

yes, you

who i am

now, on with our program...

Faculty Seminar on Virtual Reality Episode 1 - Context and Introductions - 1/29/08

Faculty Seminar on Virtual Reality

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Episode 1 - Context and Introductions - 1/29/08

Faculty Seminar on Virtual Reality Episode 1 - Context and Introductions - 1/29/08

Faculty Seminar on Virtual Reality Worlds Episode 1 - Context and Introductions - 1/29/08

Faculty Seminar on Virtual Worlds Episode 1 - Context and Introductions - 1/29/08

Faculty Seminar on Virtual Communities Episode 1 - Context and Introductions - 1/29/08

Faculty Seminar on Virtual Communities Episode 1 - Context and Introductions - 1/29/08

Faculty Seminar on Online Virtual Communities Episode 1 - Context and Introductions - 1/29/08

Faculty Seminar on Online Communities Episode 1 - Context and Introductions - 1/29/08

online versus virtual community versus world

online versus virtual

online versus virtual

community versus world

community versus world

not false dichotomies

not false dichotomies

“You are standing in the middle of a foreboding great room.”

not false dichotomies

!=

not false dichotomies

nota bene

this is not a value claim

nota bene

it is an assertion of

difference

the difference between reading

and doing

or

1-to-1, sequential

1-to-1, simultaneous

many-to-many, blended

so, while history matters

focus on the edge

realtime spatialized collaboration

realtime

realtime

realtime

realtime

spatialized

spatialized

spatialized

collaboration

particularly media

consumption

and creation

and creation...

so, we’ll be calling it...

Faculty Seminar on Virtual Worlds Episode 1 - Context and Introductions - 1/29/08

why think about virtual worlds?

some reasons

millions of reasons

Online Game

Online Communities

Online Worlds

crapload

many

lots a few

“crapload” is a term of art

membership hard to measure

some rules of thumb for world-wide numbers: Virtual worlds: 20 million MMOs: 50 million Social networks: 100 million (with lots of overlap)

million$ of reason$

education

lpp

situated

situated

heterogeneous 65% international

41% female

50% over 35 y.o.

on demand

some more reasons

theoretical questions

not to mention

mass customization

breaking global vs. local

new trends

and my favorite

amateur versus expert

amateur versus expert

amateur versus expert

traditional situation

traditional situation

amateur

and then

you may want to avert your eyes

the experts arrive

the experts arrive expert amateur

with their expertness

“The essential paradigm of cyberspace is creating partially situated identities out of actual or potential social reality in terms of canonical forms of human contact.”

but

in a zero marginal cost world

are we sure about the roles? ? ?

consider

and all this despite

low participation

Web Mainstream Media 65.00

48.75

32.50

16.25

0

Wikipedia

Sims

Open Source

Web Mainstream Media 65.00

48.75

32.50

16.25

0

except... Wikipedia Second Life

Sims

Open Source

why is that?

so, over the next several months

history

so, not really history

capabilities impacts untested assumptions applications

virtual worlds

and probably

online worlds and online communities, too

plus mobile

whatever people are doing

because

virtual worlds today

are like the web 10 years ago

so the next 10 years should be very interesting...

stop talking now

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