Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Milton Broome's Virtual Psychology Blog: Stanford Experiments in VR Psychology. Metaverse u conference in timecapsules on youtube. Metaverse u on youtube. Standford vr lab about identity. Metaverse U conversation: Raph Koster, Cory Ondrejka, Howard Rheingold - Massively. We headed to the Metaverse U event at Stanford University this weekend to hear a smorgasboard of prominent thinkers and workers in the fields of virtual worlds and online gaming have a meeting of the minds. Below is a recap (caveat: some paraphrasing involved!)
Of one of our favorite sessions featuring a conversation with Metaplace's Raph Koster, former Linden Lab CTO Cory Ondrejka, and social media and online community guru Howard Rheingold. Henrik Bennetsen (moderator): (Introduces 3 panelists and asks Raph to kick off with his thoughts on virtual worlds) Raph: From the beginning, virtual communities has never been about the "virtual. " Cory: Having spent 7 years building Second Life, the interactions and collisions with the real world are what make it interesting. Raph: Providing backstory on the declaration of avatar rights: it was in context of a lot of abuses by companies. Cory: A 1995 David Johnson cyberlaw paper first exposed these issues. Raph: These questions are all related. Virtual worlds made easier by stanford. From counter culture to cyber culture. An excerpt from Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism Chapter 4Taking the Whole Earth Digital In a 1995 special issue of Time magazine entitled "Welcome to Cyberspace," Stewart Brand wrote an article arguing that that the personal computer revolution and the Internet had grown directly out of the counterculture.
"We Owe It All to the Hippies," claimed the headline. Like many myths, this one contains several grains of truth. In the 1970s, the same rejection of agonistic politics that had fueled the rise of New Communalism undermined the day-to-day governance of all but the most rule-bound communes, and the movement itself melted away. Making the Computer "Personal" When Brand turned back toward the computer industry, he leaned on a legitimacy that he had established a decade earlier. As historian Paul Ceruzzi has detailed, the 1960s witnessed a transformation in computing equipment. Engelbart joined the Stanford Research Institute in 1957. Plate 10.