Saturday, December 29, 2007

Video of the 3D3C metaverse Metanomics Talk

See the video here. (The second part of the video is about Metaverse1 rationale)This is Yesha Sivan's talk for the Metanomics TV program. This is part of the Metaversed series of talks about the Metaverse. This is a MP4 almost 1 hr video where Robert J. Bloomfield, Nicholas H. Noyes Professor of Management from Cornell Johnson Scool of Management asks me some difficult questions about the future.

This video can serve as a good intro to the long term value of the Metaverse.

See the video here.

Monday, December 17, 2007

French consortium goal and descriptions

My name is Fabien BATAILLE, and I currently lead a research group at Lucent Bell Labs dealing with Ambient Awareness and Communications.

I am also proud to lead the French consortium part of Metaverse1.

The goal of the French consortium is to leverage on virtual world to help training fireman and other people whose role is to manage big crisis.

We want to intermix virtual world and real world to:
  • add complexity of modeled situation
  • to reduce implementation time and costs !
French partners includes mainly:
  • Firemen application school
  • Nuclear security specialists
  • Robotized intervention group
  • 3D software research labs
  • Software simulation labs
  • Communication equipment manufacturer
  • HMI Multi modal research labs.

Monday, December 10, 2007

A message from the Metaverse1 project leader

Hi, I'm Jean Gelissen from Philips Research in the Netherlands and have the privilege to be the project leader of the Metaverse1 ITEA2 project. I have quite some experience in conducting ITEA projects; I have been the initiator and project leader of 4 subsequent ITEA projects related to embedded software for consumer devices. The projects EUROPA, Robocop, Space4U and Trust4All started with the functional aspects op component based embedded software but gradually moved into the non functional aspects with software (life cycle) management and trustworthiness of the installed software base as major non functional aspects. The project series has been completed in July 2007 and has, among others, resulted in an international (ISO) standard for embedded software, ISO/IEC 23006 MPEG-E.

Early 2007 I attended the ITEA project outline symposium and Yesha made me very enthusiastic for the developments around the Metaverse but also made me aware of all the complications to make it really happen. During this meeting I agreed to take the coordination for the Metaverse1 initiative in the ITEA context aiming at providing the conditions to allow the Metaverse to grow towards a mature business. From that moment on it was hard work to gather a project consortium and compose a project proposal. At this moment (December 2007) we have an ITEA labeled project composed out of 46 partners in 8 European countries for a budget of 26.5MEuro or 324 person years for a duration of 2.5 years. At the moment we are working on the local (funding) conditions in all eight countries to allow for the project start in the second quarter of 2008.

The project will follow a use case driven approach by defining a wide span of use cases and in parallel execute a state of the art overview (SOTA). From the requirements derived from the use cases we will define a global framework / architecture for virtual worlds and the relation to the real world. Next step is to define, based on the SOTA and the defined frame work what essential technologies / interfaces are missing and to work on the design and development of these missing elements. Please note that we don't have the intention to re-invent some wheels, all that is available, that's the reason for the extensive SOTA, will be used. We will focus on the missing essential elements. The project concludes with instantiating the frame-work for all the use cases and use these demonstrators for the validation of the achievements with respect to the goals set (the requirements to fulfill). In parallel we will work on the standardization to secure the results of all the activities (of course the own developments but also record all the parts out of the SOTA that can be applied in this context).

If you want to know more about this initiative feel free to contact me.

Friday, November 23, 2007

Meraverse1 Presenation

In Oct 9th, 2007 Jean and Yesha participated in an IBM led meeting in the US (hosted by our friend Peter from IBM). The Agenda is here and our Metaverse1 presentation is here.

Metaverse1 in Second Life

A bit of fun is always good. Join us at our virtual lab. If you want to join our group send IM to Dera Kit.

Update: Consortium Overview

The Metaverse1 consortium, 47 partners, is build from participants of large and small & medium industry as well as academia / institutes from 8 participating countries
  • ØThe large industry representatives are: Philips Research, Philips I-lab, Philips Design, Forthnet S.A., Alcatel-Lucent Bell N.V., Innovalia, Telefonica I&D, ESI, FAST, Siemens IT, arvato systems GmbH and Alcatel-Lucent France.
  • ØThe small & medium enterprises are representative by: DevLab, UsableWeb, Nazooka, CBT, Nextel, Carsa, Avantalia, I&IMS, VicomTECH, E-PYME, SiteOS, Radon Labs, Metaverse Labs, Geosim Systems Ltd., IRS[N], EMI and Centre Henri Tudor.
  • ØThe academia & institutes are represented by: Technical University Eindhoven, Utrecht University, University of Twente, Stg. EPN, VU Economics & BA, VU CAMeRA, Ellinogermaniki Agogi, IBBT-SMIT, UPF-MTG, University of Rostock, C-LAB / University of Paderborn, Fraunhofer IGD RostockC-Lab, TCM Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, CEA List, CNRS – LIFL, Loria/Inria Lorraine, GIE INTRA and ENSOSP.
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  • ØThe participating counties are: The Netherlands (10 partners), Greece (3 partner), Belgium (3 partners), Spain (11 partners), Germany (9 partners), Israel (2 partners), France (8 partners) and Luxembourg (1 partner).

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