Mixed Reality
// February 14th, 2007 // Uncategorized
From Virtual Worlds, Real People and Learning, a presentation (ppt slides and mp3) given by John Lester at the New Media Consortium. John is the Community and Education Manager at Linden Lab, the makers of Second Life. The presentation gives a good introduction to Second Life, how people interact with and through it, and a few of the learning possibilities people are utilising. For deeper enquiry into the education potential of SL try the Second Life Education Wiki.
The picture is also great example of what I think should be called World 3*; a virtual world with common touch points to the real- synchronous places, individuals and events. With a palmpc, Googlemaps, GPS and World 3 the possibilities for mixed mode experiences are truly magnificent- and I’m sure most lie beyond our capacity to predict. It’s awesome we get to live in this period of rapidly unfolding consumer technology and new potentials.
* From Karl Popper’s philosophical theory of reality that includes three interacting worlds.
