Where are we now?
Virtually Real has been steadily chugging along — one of the reasons that I have been unable to post since the Virtual World Conference. A few of the people I have interviewed since then: Danah Boyd (USC/UC Berkeley); Julian Dibbell (Play Money); Christian Renauld (Cisco); Sibley Verbeek (Electric Sheep); Reuben Steiger (Millions of Us).
All of these people have such great insight from their perspectives of this field. What really changed my perspective on this project, however, was my in-world (SecondLife) interview with Christian Renauld, and then introduction to the Metaverse Roadmap Project.
After all, as I had realized a while ago, Virtually Real is not about the technology. I knew that, but I hadn’t really realized what it WAS about. But now I see how it is about how people are going to relate to this new technology.
So what’s coming up? An interview with Damon Hernandez. Attending a Metaverse Meetup. Another meeting with Christian Renauld. More investigation of the Metaverse Roadmap Project.
Stay tuned!