I have been interviewed by Natasha for H+ Magazine. See H+ Magazine - MIND and MAN: Getting Mental with Giulio Prisco. We talk about a bit of everything, telepresence, cyberspaces and metaverses, the transhumanist movement and the enabling role of telecom technology, life extension, mind uploading (oops sorry, substrate-independent minds), transcending biology and becoming substrate-independent minds, Randal and Suzanne's ASIM initiative (Advancing Substrate-Independent Minds, see carboncopies.org) including the online workshops and the recent mixed-reality ASIM 2010 Conference in San Francisco, moving from biological to robotic and virtual bodies, and the Teleplace -based teleXLR8 project, a “telepresence community for cultural acceleration” focused on science and technology education and outreach (with a transhumanist flavor). Perhaps we talk also of other things, the article is long.
*pout* You mention Extropia, but what about me and Khannea?
ReplyDelete*giggle* just kidding. Nice article.
So Giulio, what are your thoughts on using quadcopters as "Remote Telepresence Units?" With the new article just posted on H+ about hacking the Epoc controller, we have the possibility of having "mentally controlled" drones that would enable a user with a headset and video lenses to "be there" remotely. I think it would have a huge impact on VR especially as such drones could provide a "Local Avatar Signal" that would enable anyone wearing video lenses to "See" the avatar of the remote user at the drones location. I think it would give a huge push to AR development which can be directly usable for VR as well.
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ReplyDeleteHello Valkyrie,
You and Khannea are not mentioned explicitly in this article, but you are always in my thoughts.
I think the VR/AR industries will develop suitably packaged sensors and actuators to permit remote telepresence users to visit meatspace in VR. A quadcopter "Remote Telepresence Unit" controlled by BCI is certainly a cool idea. I look fwd to racing my quadcopter against your quadcopter anytime!
*Giggles*, ah you see, Valkyrie, all digital people are in Giulio's thoughts, but only I am foremost in his thoughts;)
ReplyDelete@Extie don't forget that I am an old guy who grew up in the hippy 60s (actually the 70s, too bad I missed the magic 60s): you are all foremost in my thoughts!
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