Bruce Damer's Cyberworlds 2003 Presentation (Singapore, Dec 3, 2003), titled: From Macys to Mars, Virtual Environments in Vertical Applications.

1. From Macys to Mars, Virtual Environments in Vertical Applications Bruce Damer Cyberworlds 2003, Singapore December 3, 2003

2. Itinerary Introduction I. Origins of the Visual Interface II. Early Applications of Virtual Worlds III. Evolution of Dimensional and Community Cyberspaces IV. Experiments in Early Internet-based Virtual Worlds V. Industrial Applications: NASA VI. Team Distance Learning in Virtual Worlds: FIT Ratava’s Line VII. Other Applications VIII. Acknowledgements and Resources

5. Visual Interfaces – Xerox PARC and elsewhere, 1970s-80s

7. Evolutionary Tree of Visual Computing Systems (DigiBarn Computer Museum)

20. 1995: Worlds Chat First net-based real time avatar space (Worlds Inc.)

21. 1995: Alphaworld cityscape – a public building space on the net 300,000 users as “avatars” 1 Billion objects placed since 1995

22. 1996: Building and Community experiments in Alphaworld and Active Worlds Sherwood Forest Towne

23. 1996: Sherwood Towne construction experiment (featured at Ars Electronica 1997) Anthropology-driven experiment in virtual community construction

24. 1996: User-created emergent social structures & activities – wedding Emergent space, experience, bottom-up contributions from community

25. 1997: Generative Virtual Spaces Biota.org Nerve Garden, Siggraph

26. 1998-99: Experimental Learning Spaces Virtual walk on the moon with Apollo IX astronaut Russell Schweickart

27. Experimental Learning Spaces Virtual walk on the moon with Apollo IX astronaut Russell Schweickart

28. 1998: Experimental Collaboration Spaces Datafusion “war room”

29. 1998: Experimental Collaboration Spaces Datafusion “war room”

30. 1998-2003: AVATARS Cyber-conferences Annual festival of the avatar commons “the Burning Man of Bits”

31. 1998-2003: AVATARS Cyber-conferences Avvy Awards

32. 1998-2003: AVATARS Cyber-conferences Mixture of physical and virtual venues Cybertradeshow created by database

33. Case: Avatars2001 a cyberspace odyssey

34. Case: Avatars2001 a cyberspace odyssey Multiple worlds, staging of attendees

35. Film/Story Reenactment Case: Avatars2001 a cyberspace odyssey

36. Case: Avatars2001 a cyberspace odyssey

37. Case: Avatars2001 a cyberspace odyssey

38. Case: Avatars2001 a cyberspace odyssey

39. Case: Avatars2001 a cyberspace odyssey

40. Case: Avatars2001 a cyberspace odyssey

41. Case: Avatars2001 a cyberspace odyssey

42. Case: Avatars2001 a cyberspace odyssey

43. Case: Avatars2001 a cyberspace odyssey

44. Case: Avatars2002 a merry cyber party Novel/Story Reenactment

45. Case: Avatars2002 a merry cyber party

50. www.DriveOnMars.com

53. Entire planet Mars was modeled in 1500 hours of rendering time Mars Planetary Fractal Model

54. Mars Planetary Fractal Model

55. Locale modeled Mars Planetary Fractal Model

56. Apollonaris Volcano and Gusev Crater Mars Planetary Fractal Model

57. Apollonaris and approaches Mars Planetary Fractal Model

58. View to Gusev and Apollonaris (exaggerated scale) Mars Planetary Fractal Model

59. FMARS Analogue Habitat on the surface Mars Planetary Fractal Model

60. MER on the surface (Maya models) Mars Planetary Fractal Model

61. Journeys of MER Mars Planetary Fractal Model

62. Movie and Real Time World Mars Planetary Fractal Model

64. FMARS, Devon Island, Canada BrahmsVE: FMARS Analogue Habitat

65. Planning meeting, water tank filling, EVA prep BrahmsVE: FMARS Analogue Habitat

66. Architecture of BrahmsVE BrahmsVE: FMARS Analogue Habitat

67. PSA Robot aboard a Virtual Space Station NASA ISS PSA Design Simulation A robot assistant aboard the Space Station Human Centered Computing (HCC) project

68. PSA Robot aboard a Virtual Space Station

69. PSA Robot aboard a Virtual Space Station

70. PSA Robot aboard a Virtual Space Station

71. PSA Robot aboard a Virtual Space Station

73. VI. Team Distance Learning in Virtual Worlds: FIT Ratava’s Line A collaborative cyber-fashion event and online mystery game Fashion Institute of Technology & Simon Fraser University April 23, 2003

76. Team Distance Learning in Virtual Worlds Storyboard

78. Shared Virtual Stage Set in Atmosphere Team Distance Learning in Virtual Worlds

79. Garments modeled on Stage Set Team Distance Learning in Virtual Worlds

80. Physical modeling of garments Team Distance Learning in Virtual Worlds

83. Whole Garment Knitting CAD/CAM comes to the apparel business (Shima Seiki) Team Distance Learning in Virtual Worlds

84. VII. Other Applications

85. Merger of Movie Special FX and online Virtual Environments? Golem (Serkis) as the ultimate avatar

86. Medical Applications Mental Health: Phobias Disabilities: prostheses

89. IX. Bonus! (This has been a vision of cyberspace for a long time)

90. “ Escape” in Finite State Fantasies (1976) by Rich Didday

98. “ Moral of the story”