A Cross-Industry Public Foresight Project

1 A Cross-Industry Public Foresight Project Co-Authors Contributing Authors John Smart, Acceleration Studies Foundation Corey Bridges, Multiverse Jamais Cascio, Open the Future Jochen Hummel, Metaversum Jerry Paffendorf, The Electric Sheep Company James Hursthouse, OGSi Randal Moss, American Cancer Society Lead Reviewers Edward Castronova, Indiana University Richard Marks, Sony Computer Entertainment Alexander Macris, Themis Group Rueben steiger , Millions of Us LEAD SPONSOR FOUNDING PARTNERS. Futuring and Innovation Center Graphic Design: MVR Summit Attendees Distinguished industry leaders, technologists, analysts, and creatives who provided their insights in various 3D web domains.

2 Bridget C. Agabra Project Manager, Metaverse Roadmap Project Patrick Lincoln Director, Computer Science Department, SRI. Janna Anderson Dir. of Pew Internet's Imagining the Internet; Asst. International Prof. of Communications, Elon University Julian Lombardi Architect, Open Croquet; Assistant VP for Tod Antilla Flash Developer, American Cancer Society Academic Services and Technology Support, Office of Information Technology Wagner James Au Blogger, New World Notes; Author, The Making of Second Life, 2008 Richard Marks Creator of the EyeToy camera interface; Director of Special Projects, Sony CEA R&D. Jeremy Bailenson Director, Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Stanford University Bob Moore Sociologist, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), PlayOn Project Betsy Book Director of Product Management, Makena Technologies/There; Editor, Virtual Worlds Review Randal Moss Manager of Futuring and Innovation Based Strategies, American Cancer Society Corey Bridges Co-founder, Executive Producer and Marketing Director, Multiverse Jerry Paffendorf Research Director, Acceleration Studies Foundation; Futurist in Residence, Electric Sheep Jamais Cascio Founder, Open the Future.

3 Former Editor, Worldchanging Company Edward Castronova Author, Synthetic Worlds, 2005; Director of Grad Marty Poulin Co-founder and CTO, Yoick; Former Director Studies, Dept of Telecom, U. of Indiana of Online Technology for Disney's Interactive Studios Helen Cheng Assistant Product Manager, Seriosity John Smart President, Acceleration Studies Foundation Giff Constable VP of Business Development, Electric Sheep Company David Smith Architect, Open Croquet; CTO, 3 DSolve Esther Dyson Editor, Release and Editor at Large, CNET Rueben steiger CEO, Millions of Us Networks John Swords Host, SecondCast Doug Englebart Pioneer of human-computer interaction at SRI; Daniel Terdiman Writer, CNET.

4 Director, Bootstrap Institute Barry Tolnas Web Development, American Cancer Society Randy Farmer Community Strategic Analyst, Yahoo!, Inc. Sibley Verbeck Founder and CEO, Electric Sheep Company Guy Garnett Director, Cultural Computing Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Mark Wallace Journalist; Blogger, 3pointD and Second Life Herald; Co-Author, Only a Game, 2006. Eric Gruber Freelance Producer, MTV Networks Payton White Manager of Distributed Network Technology, US. Will Harvey Founder and CEO, IMVU R&D, Sony Computer Entertainment Daniel James CEO, Three Rings Ian Wilkes Director of Operations, Linden Lab/Second Life Joaquin Keller Lead Designer, Solipsis; Senior Researcher, France Nick Yee Founder, Daedalus Project ; Student, Telecom R&D Department of Communication, Stanford Raph Koster MMORPG Designer.

5 Former CCO, Sony Online University Entertainment Ethan Zuckerman Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Mike Liebhold Senior Researcher, Institute for the Future Harvard University Other Contributors and Reviewers Other foresighted individuals who contributed ideas to or Jonas Karllson Research scientist, Images and Services Technology Center, Xerox Innovation Group. feedback on the MVR. Mason Lee Blog, Mason Lee. Paul Beaubein Independent. Tim Moenk Futurist, What a Concept. Blog, Continuous Alvis Brigis Entrepreneur, new media producer, futurist. Partial Attention. Peder Burgaard Manager, International Networks & Knowledge Rik Panganiban Blog, The Click Heard Round the World.

6 Partners, Innovation Lab, Denmark. Giulio Prisco Blog, Uvvy. William G. Burns III CTO, VR5 Online. Blog, City of Nidus. Byron Reeves Director, CLSI, Stanford University. Expert on David Carmein CEO, Virtual Space Devices. the psychological processing of media. Joel Greenberg Sr. Planner, GSD&M. Friends Talking Podcast. Joyce Schwarz Principal of JCOM. Strategic marketing, branding, and new product introduction. John Hanke General Manager, Google Earth. Fred Stutzman Co-Founder, Claim ID online identity Darren Herman Co-Founder of IGA Worldwide. Blog, Darren management system, an implementation of the Herman. OpenID standard. James Hursthouse CEO, Online Game Services, Inc.

7 Hosting Phillip Torrone Associate Editor, Make Magazine. and managing Massively Multiplayer Online Games since 1999. Philippe Van Nedervelde European virtual world developer, entrepreneur, and futurist. Joi Ito Blogger; CEO and Founder, Neoteny; Board, ICANN. Bruce Woodcock Researcher in Massively Multiplayer Online Games, Sven Johnson Independent product development consultant. Blog, reBang. Baba Yamamoto Director, LibSecondLife; SL History Wiki. Metaverse Roadmap Pathways to the 3D Web A Cross-Industry Public Foresight Project What happens when video games meet Web When virtual worlds meet geospatial maps of the planet? When simulations get real and life and business go virtual?

8 When you use a virtual Earth to navigate the physical Earth, and your avatar becomes your online agent? What happens is the metaverse. Introduction In its inaugural version, the MVR. focuses on defining and exploring periodically seeking the guidance of experts at sponsored MVR summits, Over the past year the this major new social space. In and engaging in extended interaction Acceleration Studies Foundation future versions we expect to add with online communities through the (ASF) and its supporting industry-developed timelines for use of blogs, wikis, podcasts, and Foresight partners have explored Metaverse technology other media channels. the virtual and 3D future of the development.

9 Our inaugural MVR. World Wide Web in a first-of- budget was roughly $100K, paid We invite you to contribute your its-kind Cross-Industry Public for by our generous financial unique insights to future Metaverse Foresight Project , the Metaverse sponsors. With the resources Roadmap summits, conversations, Roadmap (MVR). We use the provided we endeavored be as and updates through feedback, term Metaverse in a way that multinational and inclusive as volunteer effort, and financial includes and builds upon Neal possible. With greater support. In these early days of the Stephenson's coinage in the recognition, more visibility and Metaverse, financial sponsorship is cyberpunk science fiction novel, more sponsorship support, we particularly helpful to improving the Snow Crash, which envisioned a look forward to bringing an even quality of future roadmaps.

10 Email us future broadly reshaped by broader range of expertise to the at . virtual and 3D technologies. next version of the roadmap. The MVR has near-term The MVR comprises two anticipation horizon of ten years documents, both (to 2017), a longer-term available at speculation horizon of twenty : years (to 2025), and a charter to 1) a set of MVR Inputs discover early indicators of (75 pages) which significant developments ahead. summarize key insights Seeking diverse points of view, in 19 Foresight our process included an categories, and 2) this invitational Metaverse Roadmap MVR Overview (22. Summit, Public and expert pages + Appendix). surveys, a few workshops and which synthesizes some roundtables at major (not all) of the Inputs conferences, social meetups, and into a series of narratives a Public wiki.