This presentation looks at the past, present and future of virtual worlds, VR, AR and simulation.

1. Building the Metaverse

2. What is the Metaverse?

3. The 3rd Great Lens
The___________ ?

4. Real and Virtual Explorers
Need Maps
Ambassadors, Hans Holbein 1533
Second Life circa 2005

5. Past Present Future

6. My Map; Ukraine 1902

7. Capetown 1911

8. Archaeologist
Mathematician
Australia 1968

9. Princeton, NJ 1976 - 1989
Mythology for the masses Games you lived in

10. 1997 “Geocities” (imagined)

11. 1997 Geocities (real)

12. 2000 - OneCosmos

13. Simulation Wins

14. San Francisco, 2004

15. San Francisco, 2006

17. Real and Virtual Merging

18. It’s very confusing

19. With Many Players

20. What’s at Stake?
“Within15 years, the bulk of our work and play will
touch the virtual… (and) only a few companies will
dominate the VR network because, as is so
common in network, success is self-reinforcing.
The bigger the virtual society becomes, the more
attractive it becomes.
These artificial-reality winners will become the
largest companies in history, dwarfing the largest
companies today by any measure”.
- Kevin Kelly, WIRED May 2016

21. What are they betting on?

22. A Battle to Control…
LENSES
How I see
HTC, Oculus,
Snapchat
IDENTITY
Who I am
Facebook, Twitter
LinkedIn etc.
“LAND”
Where I am
Amazon, Google,
Microsoft

23. Why VR Changes Reality

24. The growth of XR?

25. Reality is Images

26. Over time

27. Making stories

28. In worlds we imagine

29. This has always been true
Mythology for the masses
Games you live in

30. XR as a Story Machine

31. Population Increases

32. A Map of Reality?

33. What will humans do?

34. Happy, Healthy and
Wealthy?

35. Will everything be virtualized?

36. Stories Make Meaning

37. What will we say to our
Ancestors?
New realities