Before I get into how I want to build this real world that already exists, I need to set context. You know when you start something new, like an install or when you order something, you can pick the options or just go with the default? I need to set the default settings here. We’re going to talk about the default person (this post, part 2a), the default country/way of civilisation (part 2b), and the default view of getting around (part 2c).
Continue reading “World-building the real world part 2: Setting the context.”World-building the real world. Part 1: The (personal) WHY.
This post was inspired by Christoff Beddow’s post “From Map Making to World Building“
Logo, and mascot.
I’ve been wracking my brain how to combat misinformation, how to get people to understand the incredibly (even to professionals) complex interplay of natural resource management, guiding people to take responsible action in the face of climate change, true sustainability, … I acknowledge, accept and embrace that it takes time. We need to complicate the narrative, give people time to play with the data in a way that is accessible, engaging, fun. But how?! I think 3D is critical, there is just too much to convey on a single plane. My short hand for what I want to create is the metaverse. Our working project name is peduncle, and Siri made a beautiful logo for it!
Continue reading “World-building the real world. Part 1: The (personal) WHY.”Mark Shuttleworth on Trust.
At the recent Ubuntu Community Summit, I asked Mark for advice on how we tackle trust in the metaverse:
Metaverse presentation at the CSIR conference
pdf: Bernelle_CSIR_Conference_2022.pdf
Carel spoke after me, and the Q&A was lively!
CSIR conference: https://conference.csir.co.za/programme-day-2/
What would I want the CSIR to do with this information?
- Make your code open source.
- Contribute your data in 5 star format, using RDF (Resource Description Framework).
https://5stardata.info/en/
An example of what this looks like: https://dr.jones.dk/me/ - Forget about blockchain. Everything that blockchain promises to do can be done, and done better, without blockchain. Further, blockchain cannot even do most of the things that blockchain promises. Start your journey with SafeNet. https://safenetwork.tech/
- Work with terria.js and Digital Earth Africa https://www.digitalearthafrica.org/ if you are not already.
The promise of the metaverse – or virtual worlds – for Africa
Consider this. I am from Africa, and I want to attend a conference, gain knowledge from peers in an area of my interest. Let’s set aside the massive costs and bureaucracy to get there, for the moment. I get there, and I am completely out of my depth. (I am white and a fluent English speaker with only a slight accent. But this was still a problem for me. So this is a very real example.)
Continue reading “The promise of the metaverse – or virtual worlds – for Africa”Categorising the metaverse
Or, more accurately, categorising projects that contribute to the metaverse.
We’re building a metaverse thing called Peduncle, and I had to come to terms what it is we’re building, and why. Much of this was by looking at what others were doing and feeling that this is not what we’re building, and/or, I don’t want this, and then figuring out why I felt this way. From my experience, the media excitement mainly focuses on three aspects: digital twins, crypto and ‘the new internet’, and these often gets conflated. This led me to think of the metaverse as having three layers:
Continue reading “Categorising the metaverse”Raw highlights from Brett Scott: Cloudmoney: Why the War for Our Wallets Is a War for Our World
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59314672-cloudmoney
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This is the field of politics, where we make impassioned pleas for the future we want, rather than settling on a future we deem likely.
transnational demands are harder.
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Metaverse = ‘planetary system connecting all humans and machines into a global matrix’?
Raw highlights from INSPIRE report
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Penninga, F., Lutz, M., Minghini, M., et al. (2021) INSPIRE, a public sector contribution to the European green deal data space : a vision for the technological evolution of Europe’s spatial data infrastructures for 2030. Publications Office of the European Union. https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/8563
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Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) must evolve from complex and highly specialised frameworks to more sustainable, flexible and agile data ecosystems, lowering the entry level to non-specialists and welcoming an increased participation from less traditional stakeholders (e.g. open source software communities, standardisation bodies and early adopters) in addition to data providers and users.
Raw highlights from Matthew Ball’s metaverse book
the numbers roughly correspond to locations out of the total on the Kindle app.
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