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David Burden

David Burden

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May 6

Battlefield Digital Twins

This post was prompted by being asked to be on the Digital Twin panel at the recent ITEC 2026 defence training conference.

Battlefield Digital Twins

David Burden

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Dec 9, 2025

RP1 — and the open metaverse

I’ve been following RP1 for a while now, but never managed to get to their preview events, but since last night was the public beta launch…

RP1 — and the open metaverse

David Burden

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Nov 11, 2025

Wars in the Metaverse

This is #3 in an occasional series highlighting different topics that we discuss in more detail in our recent book The Military Metaverse…

Wars in the Metaverse

David Burden

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Oct 7, 2025

Layers of War in the Metaverse

This is #2 in an occasional series looking at some of the lenses we use and issues we raise in The Military Metaverse book, published by…

Layers of War in the Metaverse

David Burden

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Sep 23, 2025

A Military Multiverse

This is the first in a series of short posts that shines the spotlight on a particular topic that Andy Fawkes and I cover in our recent…

A Military Multiverse

David Burden

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Sep 18, 2025

Virtual Humans — 6 Years On

Six years ago Maggi Savin-Baden and I wrote a book for Routledge called Virtual Humans: Today and Tomorrow. What we couldn’t foresee at…

Virtual Humans — 6 Years On

David Burden

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Sep 1, 2025

Digital Human Twins

The concept of the Digital Twin has been gaining a lot of attention over the past few year. Essentially it is the idea that you build a…

Digital Human Twins

David Burden

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Aug 6, 2024

The Metaverse Series book launches

A quick bit of shameless self-promotion. Bookings are open for the launch events for The Metaverse Series.

The Metaverse Series book launches

David Burden

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Jan 11, 2023

The Metaverse Series

Not 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…

The Metaverse Series

David Burden

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Dec 1, 2022

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

David Burden

David Burden

David has been involved in 3D immersive environments/VR and conversational AI since the 1990s. Check out www.daden.co.uk and www.virtualhumans.ai for more info.

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