A version of washing away cave paintings presented to the BCS A live opensim and a live demo of Unity3d was also part of this. http://www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog

1. Games and Virtual Worlds
whats the point?
Ian Hughes/epredator
Metaverse Evangelist
Taking a bite out of technology so you don’t
have to
www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog
BCS Animation And Games Development

2. epredator’s workplace

3. 8:10 am Saturdays ITV1

4. http://www.itv.com/citvonline/coolstuffcollective/

5. I always hear these virtual world
excuses.
I don’t have time.
Why would anyone want to...
We already have telephone/
email/websites.
Whats the business use?
NOTE! Happy to answer these still

6. Most people recreationally either buy or play games
(of all sorts)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryqueensland/4442716254/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationaalarchief/4682091494/

7. Games/Virtual Worlds as a business
The server side of WoW consists of 20,000 computers,
1.3 petabytes of storage, 75,000 CPU cores, 5.5 million lines
of code and 2 million words of text.
Second Life's in-game user-to-user economic activity
totalled $567 million dollars in 2009
Packaged Goods(consoles)-> Services(MMO) -> Cloud

8. http://kzero.co.uk/
A lot going on

9. Gamification
Gamification works by making technology more engaging
and by encouraging desired behaviours, taking
advantage of humans' psychological predisposition to
engage in gaming. The technique can encourage people
to perform chores that they ordinarily consider boring...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification
Keeping Score Already
in Business...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/epsos/5394616925/

10. User Generated Content
Distribution platform
Content Creation Tools
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cave_painting,_Anthropos_(2).jpeg
Human We need go no further we have got this
Communication covered now thanks!

11. Boss
Sub Sub Sub
Boss Boss Boss
Minion Minion Minion Minion Minion Minion Minion Minion
Everywhere is local

12. Are we washing away the cave painting?
A new disruptive technology?
Threatening all business and government and
social structures?
Embrace it or wither and die!
Banksy by badjonni http://www.flickr.com/photos/38834306@N00/2470166108/

13. YOU can connect with anyone
“Be disruptive, be persistent, be
patient. The biggest obstacles are all
human”
Dr Victoria Hale,
Founder of OneWorldHealth

17. Messing with the metaphor
Why does this have impact? It felt strange

18. So many good reasons to be virtual

19. http://treet.tv/shows/designingworlds/episodes/imperial-college

20. Design
Duplicate
Distribute
Digitally

21. Physical
Augmentation
Things
from
other
places

22. Every person
http://www.fabjectory.com
can:
Design
Duplicate
Distribute &
Manufacture
Anywhere
Any Device
http://www.desktopfactory.com/
<$5000 http://www.shapeways.com

23. http://opensimulator.org
http://unity3d.com
http://smartfoxserver.com http://evolver.com
http://slicehost.com
Build Your Own. OSS/Free/Inexpensive

24. 2 2 2
Application Models
3 3 3
client client client
1 1 1
Object labeled 1
has moved
Object 1 State/Position
Object 2 State/Position User driven VW
Server
In charge of
everything
“traditional” multi-user Server
game
I am star shaped
at this position
I created/moved this
please distribute
Both need: I am star shaped
at this position
I am star shaped
at this position
physics, lighting, AI,
network, input control,
client/slave client/slave client/slave
audio, storage...

25. Virtual
Augmentation
Things
from
other
places

26. Human We need go no further we have got this
Communication covered now thanks! isn’t this where we came
in?

27. We need go no further we have got this
covered now thanks! isn’t this where we came
in?

28. Even better than a holodeck?
wetware grid
(people)
Virtual to Virtual Virtual to Real Virtual to
Inputs
augmentation augmentation Real to Real augmentation
meta
loop
Augmenting Inputs
Threaded by: events, narrative, timings, context, needs

29. Badge Awarded !
http://www.slideshare.net/epredator/bcs-animation-and-games

30. Games and Virtual Worlds
whats the point?
Ian Hughes/epredator
Metaverse Evangelist
Taking a bite out of technology so you don’t
have to
www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog
BCS Animation And Games Development