Post by Morreion on Apr 6, 2011 12:00:36 GMT -5
AGC: Keynote - Vernor Vinge On The 'Inside Out' Cyberworld (Gamasutra)
This is a talk sci-fi writer Vernor Vinge gave in 2006 at a gaming conference, it's worth reading today. He talks about building consensual realities when we are all networked together with microprocessors and looking at HUDs (heads-up displays) on eyeglasses, altering the very way we perceive reality. We could actually choose what reality we participate in with like-minded people. MMOs are sort of tentative steps towards this.
In an auditorium like this you could make the walls look like whatever you wanted, you could make the speaker look like a clown, and since everything was networked, you and your friends could get together and agree on what things looked like. The notion of consensual imaging becomes very very important, and again this is actually a very disruptive technology, if it were finally to happen. It blows away all discussion of large three-dimensional display technologies.
The whole essay is very worth reading. Vinge wrote a book about this called Rainbow's End that's worth a look.
This is a talk sci-fi writer Vernor Vinge gave in 2006 at a gaming conference, it's worth reading today. He talks about building consensual realities when we are all networked together with microprocessors and looking at HUDs (heads-up displays) on eyeglasses, altering the very way we perceive reality. We could actually choose what reality we participate in with like-minded people. MMOs are sort of tentative steps towards this.
In an auditorium like this you could make the walls look like whatever you wanted, you could make the speaker look like a clown, and since everything was networked, you and your friends could get together and agree on what things looked like. The notion of consensual imaging becomes very very important, and again this is actually a very disruptive technology, if it were finally to happen. It blows away all discussion of large three-dimensional display technologies.
The whole essay is very worth reading. Vinge wrote a book about this called Rainbow's End that's worth a look.
