Immersive Technologies for Regional Development
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The document discusses the opportunities and challenges presented by immersive technologies and the prosumer revolution, highlighting their potential to drive innovation and smart growth in a global information society. It emphasizes the importance of location and locational intelligence while cautioning that knowledge professionals may struggle to keep pace with the emerging prosumer generation. Additionally, it explores the transformative potential of gaming and immersive applications in understanding and managing our environment.
Immersive Technologies for Regional Development
- 1. Immersive Technologies, Smart Growth and Innovation The Prosumer ChallengeINSPIRE 2011 Panel DiscussionEdinburghDavid Wortley FRSA
- 2. StructureGood News and Bad NewsThe Prosumer RevolutionImmersive Technologies, Smart Growth and Regional InnovationThoughts to Ponder
- 3. Good News !!Smart growth and innovation are virtually guaranteed in the global information societyLocation and the concept of “place” (physical or virtual) is becoming increasingly importantIntelligent locations and locational intelligence will present massive opportunities for further innovation and growth
- 4. Bad News !!Sustainability is a really BIG challengeIt is unlikely that GIS and SDI knowledge professionals will be at the forefront of the most significant location based innovationsAll knowledge professionals in a specific domain like GIS and SDI are an endangered species under threat from the alien Prosumer generation
- 5. Watch out for the ProsumerHe is coming to get you !!
- 8. Disruptive Communications TechnologiesThe internet is different in its scope and impact on businessand society to any previous disruptive technology
- 9. The ProsumerThe prosumer effect is unique in our history
- 10. The Attention EconomyCapturing and retaining attention and loyalty are critical in today’s digital media society
- 11. Immersive Technologies, Smart Growth and Innovation
- 12. Immersive TechnologiesGamesVirtual WorldsSocial NetworksImmersive Technologies are commercially very significant because they engage our discretionary time, attention and money – they educate, inform and influence society
- 13. Some StatisticsGames industry is bigger than movie and music industry180 million active gamers in the USA playing on average 13 hours per weekChina 200m, India 105m, Europe 100m, Russia 10mOne million people played Red Redemption’s Climate Change Game100k people played Floodsim in first 6 weeksWorld Crisis games are very popular e.g. World without Oil, Evoke, Lost Joules, Innocentive (crowd sourcing)
- 14. Immersive Applications driven by Human Needs and EmotionsEnhancing our lives, our world andour relationships – giving us access to a global network – building personalised relationship with our technologies
- 22. Bridge to Physical WorldExploration& Discovery
- 23. Supporting ExplorationApplications which help us to explore and discover
- 24. Risk Free EnvironmentSimulations reduce both cost and risk
- 25. Help our UnderstandingImmersive visualisations help us understand and manage our environment
- 26. Engage our InterestMake Boring Issues more relevant and interesting
- 27. Building Bridges“My SGI”Linking the physical and virtual environments
- 28. Ticking all the BoxesImmersive Technologies have not only created huge market potential but have driven innovations across all sectors
- 29. Driving Technological Innovation3D rendering, image processing, broadband speed, collaboration tools, networking, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition are all driven by Immersive Technology features
- 30. Innovation in CollaborationVisualise data in richer and easy to understand ways
- 31. Innovation in the CommunityEmpowering citizens and employees
- 33. The Secrets of Harnessing a New Communications TechnologyAttractivenessAccessibilityAffordabilityDoes it interest/excite me ?Is it easy to access ?Can I afford the time, attention and money ?
- 34. The Anthropocene Era“The age when human impacts begin to overwhelm those of all other species.”“Humanity is now stuck with a planet stewardship role.” “We are as gods and have to get good at it.” Stuart Brand
- 35. Reality is BrokenGamers have been mastering the art of planet craft for years through “God” games.Designers of online games – and those who play them –have a head start on this mission.Gaming is “a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading and of working together to accomplish real change”The great challenge for us today, and for the remainder of the century, is to integrate games more closely into our everyday lives, and to embrace them as a platform for collaborating on our most important planetary efforts.Jane McGonigal
- 36. ‘Twould be a gift for God to gi’ us to see ourselves as others see us.
- 37. Immersive Technologies, Smart Growth and Innovation The Prosumer ChallengeINSPIRE 2011 Panel DiscussionEdinburghDavid Wortley FRSA