Virtual Reality
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 2:09 pm
I've prepared something for the Observers as a gift of sorts. It can also be for anyone, since it's an access from the net . As you may or may not know, I've been involved in virtual reality for about 10 years now, especially in a certain "chat" world, or a virtual reality world, for lack of any better term. It's in a visual and text community, much like a computer game but in 2 dimensions, so that even the oldest and slowest machines can use it.
I've built a literal office building, for the Observers. You'll need to download a software, which I'll make available, for PC or Mac. Install it, and then, following the link on a webpage I'll have for you all, just jump into MY world.
The office building looks like just what it is, an office building. It has meeting rooms, and private meeting rooms, that look like "real world". You'll wear a pictorial "avatar", that represents you. Your name will be on you, and you can do just about anything you can in "real world".
All conversations are constantly logged, so if you are in a meeting room, face to face in real time with me or Jim or Stan for example, the log runs constantly, off to the side. You can copy and paste from that log, or just ignore it. It's great in case you brain storm, and an idea gets thrown about, and you want to save that part of the conversation, so you copy and paste it to your computer, otherwise the log just runs out and it would be lost after a period of time.
There, in this world, you DO develop feelings for people. The visual plus the text, which comes out like talk bubbles, which after a short time, you become used to, and seems like normal talking, all happens in real time.
This is great for real time meetings, discussions or whatever.
This world started 10 yrs ago, and Kent State had a virtual school building in this world for a few years. Several other Universities have had buildings in this world also, most are not acessible by outsiders, so corporations use this way of meeting, while physically, sitting at the computer.
Your virtual "self" will be in the office building. : )
I'll prepare everything and give the links to all this, in the next few days.
The building itself is part of a community of over a quarter million people, with hundreds of thousands of other virtual reality buildings, of various themes, but none have been for this type of use, in the last several years.
Most have gone to 3D, but again, for the older computers, that requires more resources. This world allows everyone to join it.
Stay tuned, and we'll get to talk to each other in a virtual cafe' or restaurant, or board room or meeting room, on and on and on, even have drinks in a virtual indoor pool, while discussing what needs to be discussed.
Mark Allan Crnolatas
"A society or group of people exist soley in it's ability to maintain an atmosphere of peace and civility. It's failure is directly relative to the degree of the lack of these conditions".
I've built a literal office building, for the Observers. You'll need to download a software, which I'll make available, for PC or Mac. Install it, and then, following the link on a webpage I'll have for you all, just jump into MY world.
The office building looks like just what it is, an office building. It has meeting rooms, and private meeting rooms, that look like "real world". You'll wear a pictorial "avatar", that represents you. Your name will be on you, and you can do just about anything you can in "real world".
All conversations are constantly logged, so if you are in a meeting room, face to face in real time with me or Jim or Stan for example, the log runs constantly, off to the side. You can copy and paste from that log, or just ignore it. It's great in case you brain storm, and an idea gets thrown about, and you want to save that part of the conversation, so you copy and paste it to your computer, otherwise the log just runs out and it would be lost after a period of time.
There, in this world, you DO develop feelings for people. The visual plus the text, which comes out like talk bubbles, which after a short time, you become used to, and seems like normal talking, all happens in real time.
This is great for real time meetings, discussions or whatever.
This world started 10 yrs ago, and Kent State had a virtual school building in this world for a few years. Several other Universities have had buildings in this world also, most are not acessible by outsiders, so corporations use this way of meeting, while physically, sitting at the computer.
Your virtual "self" will be in the office building. : )
I'll prepare everything and give the links to all this, in the next few days.
The building itself is part of a community of over a quarter million people, with hundreds of thousands of other virtual reality buildings, of various themes, but none have been for this type of use, in the last several years.
Most have gone to 3D, but again, for the older computers, that requires more resources. This world allows everyone to join it.
Stay tuned, and we'll get to talk to each other in a virtual cafe' or restaurant, or board room or meeting room, on and on and on, even have drinks in a virtual indoor pool, while discussing what needs to be discussed.
Mark Allan Crnolatas
"A society or group of people exist soley in it's ability to maintain an atmosphere of peace and civility. It's failure is directly relative to the degree of the lack of these conditions".