Part 1: The Art of Gathering Virtually: Experiential Design Lessons from Virtual Conferences of the 2020 Pandemic

1. The Art of Gathering Virtually Experiential Design Lessons from Virtual Conferences of the 2020 Pandemic @KentBye

2. ● Lessons from VR Confs 2020 ● Brief Response to Civic Program + My Experiential Design Approach ● Tech Architecture & Evolution ● Design Tradeoffs

3. 1st Wave of Virtual Confs in VR 2020 ● Educators in VR International Summit (80% in AltSpace VR), Feb 17-22, 2020 ● HTC Ecosystem Conference (ENGAGE), March 18 ● IEEE VR 2020 (Mozilla Hubs), March 22-26 ● Laval Virtual (Virbella), April 22-24 ● Mixed Reality Dev Days (AltSpace), May 21-22 ● AWE & ARVR Association Global Summit ● VRTO (Hubs, Discord) June 6 - July 6 ● Burning Man (AltSpaceVR) August 30 - September 8

4. My Phenomenological Twitter Threads For IEEE VR, Laval Virtual, & Burning Man https://twitter.com/kentbye/status/1241704882223992833 https://twitter.com/kentbye/status/1252891755596230657 https://twitter.com/kentbye/status/1302371727729504257

5. What is a Conference? Planned talks create a shared context Unplanned collisions build relationships

6. Using Zoom Works Great for Talks

7. The Hallway Conversations

8. Recreating the Hallway

9. Teleporting Eliminates Collisions

10. Threshold Spaces in Architecture

11. The Architecture of Spawn Points

12. Spawn Points & Permaculture Zones Permaculture Zones (Birnbaum and Fox, 2014) https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Permaculture-Zones-Birnbaum-and-Fox-2014_fig11_331162801

13. Overview of Laval Virtual World

14. Put Talks at the Edges

15. Q&A After a Talk

16. Poster Sessions

17. Birds of a Feather Discussions

18. Birds of a Feather Schedule

19. Emergent Declaration of a Birds of a Feather

20. Emergent Context Declared with Signage

21. Audio Isolation Bubbles

22. Without Audio Spatialization: Could Only Have One Conversation Per Bubble

23. No Audio Spatialization Meant Not Enough Audio Isolation

24. Clustering around Audio Isolation

25. Audio Isolation Architecture (High Fidelity 2020)

26. Lurking Zones

27. Architecture for Context & Lurking

28. Contextual Bubbles

29. Open Problem: Turn Taking & Balanced Convos

30. The Role of Culture at Burning Man https://voicesofvr.com/960-how-burning-mans-10-principles-got-translated-into-vr-altspace-with-athena-demos/

31. ● Lessons from VR Confs 2020 ● Brief Response to Civic Program + My Experiential Design Approach ● Tech Architecture & Evolution ● Design Tradeoffs

32. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/801302799 Architectural Association's Civic Program Preliminary Report: Distant Crowds: Architecture & Infrastructure of Virtual Gatherings 2020

33. https://www.civicprogram.com/home Distant Crowds (Draft): Architecture & Infrastructure of Virtual Gatherings 2020

34. Distant Crowds (Draft): What are virtual gatherings? https://www.civicprogram.com/what-are-virtual-gatherings

35. https://www.civicprogram.com/what-are-virtual-gatherings

36. New Technology Communications Medium as Process

37. New Technology Makers Explore New Aﬀordances Communications Medium as Process

38. New Technology Makers Explore New Aﬀordances Distribution Channels for the Work Communications Medium as Process

39. Audience Watches Work New Technology Makers Explore New Aﬀordances Distribution Channels for the Work Communications Medium as Process

40. 1. Quality 2. Context 3. Character 4. Story Four Dimensions of Experience

41. Mental & Social Presence Active Presence Emotional Presence Embodied & Environmental Presence

42. ThinkingIntuition FeelingSensing

43. Making Choices Taking Action Emotional Immersion Sensory Experience

44. Yang Yin

45. Inward Outward

46. Receiving Giving

47. Listening Talking

48. Shady Side Sunny Side Moon Night Winter Cold Receiving Connected to Whole Sun Day Summer Hot Giving Individualized Self Yang Yin

50. Hot Cold WetDry

51. Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Ars Combinatoria. (1690)

52. AirFire WaterEarth Hot Cold WetDry

53. Hot Cold WetDry

55. Identity Context Community Context What are virtual gatherings like? Mixes Context and Qualities of Presence https://www.civicprogram.com/what-are-they-like

56. My take: virtual gatherings are also about feelings, action, embodiment, & social exchange. https://www.civicprogram.com/what-are-virtual-gatherings

61. https://ryanschultz.com/2020/05/11/version-2-1-of-the-infographic-social-vr-platforms-organized-by-primary-purposes/

62. https://www.civicprogram.com/what-is-a-good-gathering What is a good virtual gathering? Split into 4 contexts, but there’s many more

63. https://www.civicprogram.com/what-will-they-be-like These predictions are split into contexts

64. Fashion Show

65. Merch Store at Roblox Concert

66. Early Education

67. https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2020/4/12/21200157/coronavirus-utah-covid-19-family-zoom-group-video-call-apple-facetime-technology

68. Virtual Concert in Fortnite https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/rapper_travis_scott_had_a_virtual_concert_in_fortnite_over_12_million_people_attended_the_event.html

69. Telemedicine https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/rapper_travis_scott_had_a_virtual_concert_in_fortnite_over_12_million_people_attended_the_event.html

70. Virtual Dates

71. Virtual Dia de los Meurtos

72. Higher Education / Conferences

73. Workplace Telepresence https://twitter.com/DennyCloudhead/status/1324798554536378368

74. Hanging Out with Friends

75. duenos.net Combating Isolation

76. Photo by

77. Public Private OtherSelf

78. My Assessment of College Majors Adopting XR

79. “Crossing the Chasm” into the Mainstream Moore, Geoﬀrey. "Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers" HarperBusiness, 1991 Graphic via https://blog.prototypr.io/design-for-crossing-the-chasm-1c4d4c68a3f1

80. My Assessment of College Majors Adopting XR

81. Expression of Identity

82. Biometric Data

83. Consciousness Hacking

84. Biofeedback Sensory Immersion Vessel https://sensync.net/science

85. Brain-Controlled Interfaces & Neural Inputs

86. Haptic Suits & Gloves

87. Sensory Substitution

88. Sensory Addition

89. Self-Sovereign Identity

90. Verified Identities

91. Fashion Shows

92. Yang Yin Competition Walled Garden Curated Content Vertical-Integration Proprietary App Store Cooperation Open Ecosystem No Gatekeepers Horizontal Platform Shared Source Code Open Access

93. Surveillance Capitalism

94. Virtual Gift Economies

95. Selling of Crypto Art

96. Merch Store at Roblox Concert

97. https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/01/21/we-need-to-own-our-data-as-a-human-right-and-be-compensated-for-it

98. Hyperreality Risks Hyper-Reality, Keiichi Matsuda (2016), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs

99. Early Education

100. Early Education in Minecraft

101. Memory Palaces

102. Telepresence

103. duenos.net Data Visualization

104. Spatial Language

105. Metaphoric Communication

106. Spatialized Emojis

107. Home & Family

108. Volumetric Memories

109. Spatial Mapping via Computer Vision

110. duenos.net Architecture

111. Sci-Fi World Building

112. Entertainment

113. Immersive Storytelling

114. The Holodeck

115. Flow States

116. Creativity & Art

117. Virtual Concert in Fortnite https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/rapper_travis_scott_had_a_virtual_concert_in_fortnite_over_12_million_people_attended_the_event.html

118. Adult Entertainment

119. Medicine

120. http://diﬀerenttruths.com/science-technology/rewiring-the-brain/ Neuroplasticity

121. Ownership of Health

122. Telemedicine

123. Healing Trauma

124. https://www.slideshare.net/waltergreenleaf/walter-greenleaf-keynote-presentation-stanford-university-virtual-reality-innovations-conference Greenleaf’s Medical Applications of VR

125. Virtual Harassment

126. Virtual Being Influencers

127. Deep Fakes

128. Empathy + Truth & Reconciliation

129. Virtual Dates

130. https://www.roadtovr.com/mother-meets-recreation-of-deceased-child-in-vr/

131. https://www.economist.com/1843/2020/04/09/zoom-funerals-mourning-in-a-pandemic

132. Grief Rituals

133. Virtual Dia de los Meurtos

134. Image Rights After Death

135. Virtual Violence

136. Bans & Suspensions

137. Breaking Down Academic Silos

138. Skill Acquisition

139. Higher Education / Conferences

140. Comprehend Complexity

141. Capturing Deep Patterns with AI

142. Virtual Travel

143. Wonder & Awe

144. Workplace Telepresence https://twitter.com/DennyCloudhead/status/1324798554536378368

145. Virtual Screens for Productivity

146. Professional Use Cases

147. Community

148. Hanging Out with Friends

149. Algorithmic Bias

150. Implicit Social Scores

151. duenos.net Combating Isolation

152. Prison Rehabilitation

153. Accessibility

154. Distraction of XR https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pokemon-go-players-stabbed-fall-off-cliff-20160714-snap-story.html

156. What’s a good virtual gathering? Perhaps it’s the development or revealing of character https://www.civicprogram.com/what-is-a-good-gathering

157. “True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.” ― Robert McKee

158. Protagonist Placed in a Context with Pressure Make Choices & Take Action Essential Character is Revealed + =

159. https://thesyncmovie.com/2015/09/synchronicity-and-the-story-of-our-lives/

160. Moral Virtue as Character

161. Virtue Continuum

162. Character Temperament Isidore de Séville, De Natura Rerum (On the Nature of Things)

163. Big Five Personality Characteristics

164. Sacharin, V., Schlegel K., & Scherer K. R. (2012). Geneva Emotion Wheel Rating Study. Swiss Center for Affective Sciences Feelings Needs

165. Protagonist Placed in a Context with Pressure Make Choices & Take Action Essential Character is Revealed + =

167. What’s a good virtual gathering? As seen from the lens of storytelling https://www.civicprogram.com/what-is-a-good-gathering

168. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey Joseph Campbell Hero’s Journey

169. https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/downloads/story-circle-template/ Dan Harmon’s Story Circle

170. Authored Narrative Generative Narrative http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/webproj/212_spring_2014/Abdel_Abouhaib/101559128653564b3256663/uploads/2/8/6/1/28617611/1047737_orig.jpg Story Authorship

171. Lebowitz, Josiah and Klug, Chris. "Interactive Storytelling for Video Games." Focal Press. 2011 Authored Narrative Generative Narrative Lebowitz & Klug’s Interactive Storytelling Spectrum

172. Authored Narrative Generative Narrativehttp://www.kateforsyth.com.au/images/Blog%20January%202013/ThreeActStructureFlat.jpg Fully Traditional Stories

173. Authored Narrative Generative NarrativeRiedl, Mark. "Incorporating Authorial Intent into Generative Narrative Systems," Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2009. Interactive Traditional Story

174. Authored Narrative Generative NarrativeChooseco LLC, Journey Under the Sea Branching Path Stories

175. Authored Narrative Generative NarrativeMateas, Michael. "Interactive Drama, Art, and Artificial Intelligence." PhD Thesis. Technical Report CMU-CS-02-206. School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, December 2002. Interactive Drama Manager

176. Authored Narrative Generative Narrativehttps://i0.wp.com/www.raphkoster.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/CASlide7.jpg Open-Ended Stories

177. Authored Narrative Generative NarrativeEmily Short, Spirit AI, Game Developers Conference “Narrative Innovation Showcase” 2017. Fully Player-Driven Stories

178. Lebowitz, Josiah and Klug, Chris. "Interactive Storytelling for Video Games." Focal Press. 2011 Authored Narrative Generative Narrative Lebowitz & Klug’s Interactive Storytelling Spectrum

179. Authored Narrative Generative Narrative Whose Character is Revealed? Character of an Event, Person, Culture, or Place Your Character

180. Are You a Ghost or an Embodied Character? Does You Have Impact on the Story? https://voicesofvr.com/292-the-four-different-types-of-stories-in-vr/

181. What’s a good virtual gathering? As seen through Aristotelian Final Causation https://www.civicprogram.com/what-is-a-good-gathering

182. Blueprint, Math Structure, Design, Shape https://historeo.com/web/?p=3918 Formal Cause Aristotle’s Four Causes

183. Blueprint, Math Structure, Design, Shape https://historeo.com/web/?p=3918 Material Cause Formal Cause Aristotle’s Four Causes Source Material out of which it’s made

184. Blueprint, Math Structure, Design, Shape Agents & Manifestation of Knowledge https://historeo.com/web/?p=3918 Material Cause Eﬃcient Cause Formal Cause Aristotle’s Four Causes Source Material out of which it’s made

185. Purpose, Teleological Impulse, Intention Blueprint, Math Structure, Design, Shape Agents & Manifestation of Knowledge https://historeo.com/web/?p=3918 Material Cause Eﬃcient Cause Formal CauseFinal Cause Aristotle’s Four Causes Source Material out of which it’s made

186. ` Purpose, Motivation, Teleological Impulse, Intention Final Cause and Purpose is a Key Catalyst for Learning Interact & Play Explore & Create Chase Curiosity Find Motivation & Purpose Embodied Movement Error Correction Dopamine Novelty & Surprise Answer Questions Fail Fast & Adapt

187. ` Active Learning Approaches Project-Based Learning Inquiry-Based Learning Action-Based Learning Connectivist Learning Flipped Classroom Regio Emilia Schools Montessori Schools Waldorf Schools

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