Good post. The Metaverse needs to be built from the inside out, not the outside in.

Seeing 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…

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…

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 …

I’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…

In 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…

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…

We're obviously on a similar wavelength. Long seen Grice's maxims as a good guidance for assessing chatbot performance and guiding development

As 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…