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another metaphor of digital earth????
:-)
james

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Subject: British Library/JAN-PETER MULLER/Being There Without Going There/              Tuesday  5 March 2002

This may be of interest to some of you-

Tuesday 5 March, 18.15-19.30

JAN-PETER MULLER

Being There Without Going There: is the Future Photoreal Immersion?

We are all familiar with the iconography of maps and their recent
'interactive' manifestation on the Internet. We are also becoming used to
visualisations of the planet down to the level of individual buildings from
satellite data and to in-car navigation systems and handheld GPS receivers
to show us where we are. Just around the corner is L-commerce or Mobile
Location Based Services, which fuses the web and high-speed
telecommunications with space technology, Geographical Information Systems,
Artificial Intelligence and GPS. In Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash the future
is portrayed from a computer games perspective where Virtual Reality becomes
our escape pod. The view advanced here is of a world where the computer
becomes a portal through which we can view anywhere on the planet in
photoreality indistinguishable from what we might see if we go there.

Jan-Peter Muller, Professor of Image Understanding and Remote Sensing in the
Department of Geomatic Engineering at University College London, was the
Executive Producer of the award-winning Erd-Sicht Global Change interactive
video-disk and 3D Atlas (Creative Wonders/Electronic Arts), and the LANDMAP
project to create a 10m database of the British Isles using spaceborne data.

£5.00 (concessions, £3.50)





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