Where Next? Virtual Worlds and Technology Trends

Presentation given at ReLIVE11 at the Open University in Milton Keynes. Video at http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?whichevent=1760&s=1&schedule=2238

Transcript

1. Where Next? From the Virtual and Philosophical to the Real and Practical Andy Piper @andypiper
2. Predicting the future is hard
3. 1987 - Star Trek TNG “PADD”
4. iPad 2010
5. Hoverboards, flying cars, self-tying shoelaces 1989 (showing 2015)
6. - Remote health care - Real-time speech translation - 3D Internet - Nanotechnology applied to environmental problems - Mobile phones start to read our minds 2006
7. A brief history from behind the firewall
8. IBM’s Global Innovation Outlook 2005 identified gaming skills as having value in management
10. Virtual Business Center May 2007
11. Virtual Collaboration for Lotus Sametime
12. Connecting with real systems
13. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tipsfortravellers/3657960168/
14. Innov8 and CityOne serious games for learning
15. Innov8 and CityOne serious games for learning
16. Something changed
17. The Empty Room problem
18. The year of Augmented Reality 2009-2010
19. Virtual Center
20. We are the Outliers
21. Meanwhile, on the interwebs...
22. What we mean by social and virtual is being redefined
23. Our ability to create, connect and learn is changing
24. Education & Creation A new culture?
25. Trends to watch
26. We’re on a road to… somewhere? Gartner Hype Cycle, July 2011
27. Trend 1: 3D printing
28. Trend 2: Social TV/ broadcast
29. Trend 3: Touch and Gesture
30. Trend 4: Big Data, Predictive Analytics, EDA
31. Trend 5: Identity
32. Final thoughts
33. Making the future real
34. 2011: Nike release “Air Mag” shoes LEGO version by Alex Jones / “Orion Pax”
35. Hover boards … nearly cracked it!
36. I’m done Thank you
37. Connect http://twitter.com/andypiper http://andypiper.co.uk http://slideshare.net/andypiper
38. Image credits • Signpost http://www.flickr.com/photos/16002150@N08/2006266695/ • Social TV http://www.flickr.com/photos/rooreynolds/3570595297/ • LEGO Nike Mag http://www.flickr.com/photos/orion_pax/6158500167/in/photostream/ • Get Excited and Make Things http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbeltjones/ 3365682994/ • Others author’s own, or royalty-free and CC-licensed works from sxu.hu and Wikimedia Commons