John LesterChief Learning OfficerReactionGrid Inc.

NonProfit Commons MeetingOctober 26, 2012

To Invent the Future, we must Build Dreams

There's a reason why so many of us have desktops that look like this.

It's because we really want this.

Yet we focus on simulating this.

While we dream of navigating this.

Next Generation Virtual Worlds need to...

1. Exist on the Web (and mobile devices)

2. Integrate with Web-based applications

3. Engage and deeply fascinate people

1. Exist on the Web (and mobile devices)

1. Be part of the Web (including mobile)2. Integrate with Web-based applications

1. Be part of the Web (including mobile)3. Engage and deeply fascinate people

The familiar is safe, but far from fascinating.

Yet, there is value in recreating some of the familiar.It grounds us and gives us cultural touchstones.ives us It's

The trick is to balance the fascinating with the familiar.

In our Dreams, we often find a deeply engaging balancebetween the Fascinating and the Familiar.

So let's Build Dreams.

The Spectrum of Dreams: Moments of Peace and Contemplation

The Spectrum of Dreams: Moments of Action and Chaos

ReactionGrid Inc. provides both custom development expertise and the underlying platform technology for multiuser 3d virtual worlds.

We have expertise in game-based learning, instructional design, complex engineering simulations, health care applications and project management.

Jibe is a multiuser 3d virtual world platform

created by ReactionGrid using Unity3D and other

industry standard technologies.

A Jibe world can be embedded on any

web page, including mobile devices. Jibe integrates and

communicates with web portals, LMS/CMS and industry standard databases.

Jibe is an Ecosystem of Interoperable Components

Visit my demo Jibe world at http://jibemicro.reactiongrid.com/pathfinderlester

To understand the real potential of new tools, watch how artists use them

Visit the Virtual Broad Art Museum (VBAM) at http://broadmuseum.msu.edu/VBAM/

The horizon of Augmented RealityMalleable Places and Mixed Reality Spaces

Augmented City - http://vimeo.com/14294054

http://about.me/pathfinder

Thank you!

http://reactiongrid.com

My Slides: http://bit.ly/NPC-JL-2012