Bruce Damer's talk for Serious Virtual Worlds 2008 (Birmingham, UK Sept 2009). This talk was delivered by slides and voice in the Forterra Olive platform.

1. Some Serious Virtual Worlds A Portfolio of Non-Game Virtual Worlds Applications 1996-2008 Presented by Bruce Damer Founder-Contact Consortium, CEO-DigitalSpace A special presentation to Serious Virtual Worlds 2008, Sept 11, 2008

3. 1997: Nerve Garden: Generative Virtual Spaces Learning about Biology Biota.org, Nerve Garden, Siggraph, Ars Electronica Some Serious Virtual Worlds

5. 1998: IHI World First use of a virtual world as a corporate support space Some Serious Virtual Worlds

6. 1998: Experimental Collaboration Spaces Datafusion “war room” Some Serious Virtual Worlds

7. 1999: Experimental Learning Spaces A virtual walk on the moon Narrative by Russell Schweickart, Apollo IX astronaut Some Serious Virtual Worlds

8. Some Serious Virtual Worlds 1999: Experimental Learning Spaces A virtual walk on the moon Narrative by Russell Schweickart, Apollo IX astronaut

9. Some Serious Virtual Worlds 1999: Experimental Learning Spaces A virtual walk on the moon Narrative by Russell Schweickart, Apollo IX astronaut

10. 2002-07: DoToLearn: reaching the autistic child NIH funded project with Dr. Dorothy Strickland and Galen Brandt Some Serious Virtual Worlds

11. 2002-07: DoToLearn: Songs and Games, learning spaces for Autistic and FAS children (www.do2learn.com) Some Serious Virtual Worlds

12. 2003: Avatars and Fashion (Fashion Institute of Technology, NY, with Daria Dorosh, Galen Brandt and Steve DiPaola) Some Serious Virtual Worlds

13. Some Serious Virtual Worlds 2003: Avatars and Fashion (Fashion Institute of Technology, NY, with Daria Dorosh, Galen Brandt and Steve DiPaola)

14. Some Serious Virtual Worlds 2007: Cyberwearz iDoublet Street World <-> Virtual World

16. Avatars ’98 Inside Cyberspace! Creating the first large scale inworld cyber-conference event - planning & architecture… Some Serious Virtual Worlds

17. … building, event schedule, speakers, art gallery, webcam wall, avvy awards, policing, reportage. Some Serious Virtual Worlds

18. Going live, November 20, 1998 with 1,000 simultaneous users in 5 platforms, all on dial-up connections Some Serious Virtual Worlds

26. Some Serious Virtual Worlds Avatars ’99 Colonizing Cyberspace

27. Avatars 2000 – Cyberspace for a New Millennium: Metaphor of the Space Station: easier cognitive navigability Some Serious Virtual Worlds

28. Avatars 2001 - A Cyberspace Odyssey Some Serious Virtual Worlds

29. 2008: Virtual Worlds and Space @ NASA Second Life/CoLab, Will Wright/Spore Some Serious Virtual Worlds-NASA

30. Virtual Worlds and Space – DigitalSpace (open source 3D) 2000-2008 Human and Robotic Spaceflight Design Simulations Some Serious Virtual Worlds

31. 2004: Telerobotically build a Lunar base. Some Serious Virtual Worlds

32. Some Serious Virtual Worlds 2005-2006: Design simulation of lunar rover for ice exploration.

33. 2007: Design for a human mission to an asteroid Some Serious Virtual Worlds

34. 2008: Hubble Servicing Mission Public Learning Simulation Some Serious Virtual Worlds

35. 2008: Hubble Servicing Mission Public Learning Simulation Some Serious Virtual Worlds