Jan 11The Metaverse SeriesNot so much an article as a quick heads up. Inspired by the pieces I’ve been writing on the Metaverse here (and on the stuff I was writing back in 2007 on it!) I’m excited to announce that Prof. Maggi Savin-Baden and I have been appointed as series editors for Taylor & Francis’ new series of books on the #Metaverse — simply titled The Metaverse Series! More info at http://themetaverseseries.info/. Already started on The Metaverse: A Critical Introduction.Metaverse1 min readMetaverse1 min read
Dec 1, 2022The Metaverse Doesn’t Need Your Use Case To Work472Theo PriestleyGood post. The Metaverse needs to be built from the inside out, not the outside in.Good post. The Metaverse needs to be built from the inside out, not the outside in.1 min read1 min read
Nov 24, 202210 Axioms for the MetaverseSeeing as we seem to be back in full-on Metaverse hype again I thought I’d try and sum up my key views on the Metaverse based on over 25 years of working and playing in immersive virtual environments. Initially I tried to do this as a list of 6 things…Metaverse10 min readMetaverse10 min read
Aug 16, 2022What Goes Into a Metaverse?Back in 2008 I did a presentation at the wonderful PICNIC conference in Amsterdam on “Pathways to the 3D Web” and “The Metaverse Roadmap”. In the Roadmap I had a diagram I quite liked showing some of the component parts of a virtual world/metaverse. Looking back at it now it…Metaverse14 min readMetaverse14 min read
Aug 10, 2022The Metaverse — A Future History?A few days ago I got together with a group of experts in 3D immersive learning and virtual reality and together we brainstormed what we saw as the major challenges facing 3D immersive learning/training, VR and the Metaverse over the next decade or so. The graphic below summarises our thoughts. Short-term Challenges …Metaverse7 min readMetaverse7 min read
Mar 18, 2022My Second BrainI’ve just started doing a PhD (you’ll be able to work out the topic is from the images below), and I’m interested in the whole idea of doing a PhD “in public” and the use of Wikis and other Personal Knowledge Management tools to support them. Wikis The most basic…Second Brain7 min readSecond Brain7 min read
Nov 23, 2021Three Major Challenges for Achieving Human-Like AIIn my last post I introduced the AI Landscape model which I find useful for understanding where different “types” of AI are. If we use this landscape to start thinking about the future then I think that there are three big challenges embedded in it for the journey to…Artificial Intelligence8 min readArtificial Intelligence8 min read
Nov 11, 2021An AI Landscape — What Do You Mean by AI?In the old days there used to be a saying that “what we call ‘artificial intelligence’ is basically what computers can’t do yet”[1] — so as things that were thought to take intelligence — like playing chess — were mastered by a computer they ceased to be things that needed…Artificial Intelligence6 min readArtificial Intelligence6 min read
Apr 20, 2021The Philosophy of Common Sense881John BallWe're obviously on a similar wavelength.We're obviously on a similar wavelength. Long seen Grice's maxims as a good guidance for assessing chatbot performance and guiding development1 min read1 min read
Feb 1, 2021Evaluating 3D Immersive Environment and VR PlatformsAs part of our work on a forthcoming white paper looking at the ever-growing range of 3D immersive environment platforms available we thought it would be useful to identify some criteria/function sets to help make comparison easier. If you were to use these as part of a selection exercise then…VR9 min readVR9 min read