@davidburden
Independent consultant on AI, metaverse & wargaming. Series co-editor "The Metaverse Series" and co-author "Virtual Humans". Series info at https://metaverseseries.blogspot.com/. TEDx speaker on Digital Immortality. Also @urbanwargamer.bsky.social.
Just War Theory and Artificial Intelligence has just been published by Routledge and includes my chapter on Wargaming and Just War Theory www.routledge.com/Just-War-The... - which will form the basis of my GUWS presentation next week - www.eventbrite.com/e/wargaming-... #wargaming #justwar
I was interviewed on Monday by Jillian Godsil for Dublin City FM. The talk is mainly around virtual humans and digital amortality, but also touches on some metaverse issues.
You can find a link to the radio programme, and a text version of the interview at: jilliangodsil.com/talking-to-v...
I'm being interviewed on Dublin City FM at midday today on virtual humans by author and journalist Jillian Godsill www.mixcloud.com/1032DublinCi... #virtualhumans #digitalimmortality
Interesting and encouraging findings in a new XRA survey on XR/VR adoption and the #metaverse metaverseseries.blogspot.com/2025/06/new-...
Good number of people trying out my MR demo this pm at Kings Wargaming Week, most took to it pretty naturally. In response to a comment on a neighbouring naval wargame I quickly put a prototype ASW space together in ShapesXR - so depth is just a natural part of the experience. #wargaming #metaverse
BBC Local News picked up on the Wolverhampton project - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #metaverse #virtualreality #education
Nice bit of PR on a project I'm currently helping deliver at Wolverhampton University, some great builds by the students, who took to the VR authoring/building app with only a few hours training from me. www.wlv.ac.uk/news-and-eve... #virtualreality #metaverse
#3 in the series. Just proof reading what will become #4 or #5 I expect - we're now onto the books not co-written by my or Maggi. #metaverse
Our new space on the Frame virtual platform is up for the Military Metaverse book.
Nice coverage in MS&T on our new book on the Military Metaverse which is published tomorrow! www.halldale.com/defence/expe... #metaverse
Closing slide from the New Scientist Consciousness event, very apposite given our work on the Sensay Wisdom Engine!
Brilliant video on attention that makes a change from the gorilla one youtu.be/LW_ZVvjP_Ms?...
Fascinating stuff on day-dreaming and mind-wandering and the Default Mode Network - an area I’ve always been interested in trying to get into a bot/AI - this might finally give me an in to it
Nice graphic on the build up of simple episodic memories into complex episodic memories from Catherine Loveday, UoWestminster
Interviewed about my work on conversational AI on Sensay’s weekly Community Call. Good chat with Dan for 30 mins plus in a variety of relevant topics #AI #chatbots www.youtube.com/live/bBQFvUn...
Down in London for the @newscientist.com Instant Expert day of talks on Consciousness #AI #Consciousness
Military Metaverse virtual book launch in 2 weeks - sign up at www.eventbrite.com/e/the-milita.... Now on pre-order at Amazon and Routledge (use 25AFLY1 at Routledge for 20% discount!) - metaverseseries.blogspot.com/p/the-milita...
GPT4.5 passes the Turing test, surprised its taken this long for a documented/peer reviewed pass by an LLM, so may not be the first - medium.com/@mcunningham... #AI #ChatGPT
Nice immersive experience of the city of Carcassonne, c. 1304 from a location-based entertainment centre in Paris. eclipso-entertainment.com/en/paris/car...
The Military Metaverse space will be linked in to the larger Metaverse Series microverse already established at framevr.io/themetaverse.... And here are a few pics of the build in progress, with spaces dedicated to each chapter of the book. #metaverse #framevr
Invites now open for the virtual launch of The Military Metaverse, in the #metaverse! Open house 1200-1900 BST on 7th May 2025, guided tours at 1300 and 1700. Free sign up at www.eventbrite.com/e/the-milita.... URL to follow nearer the date, but will be on the framevr.io virtual world platform.
Nice summary of the state of VR in China - www.immersivewire.com/p/china-repo... #metaverse
Thought provoking session from Richard Boyd at #ITEC2025, and a conclusion I’d pretty much agree with - “Ultimately knowledge graphs, combined with LLMs and a digital twin simulation of the world will result in AGI”
This pulls together my experiences from Unity days, though Arkio and Frame to SpacesXR.
Virtual Worlds Museum Kickstarter successfully funded. As a backer and as someone with a deep connection to virtual worlds I'll be interested to see how this develops www.kickstarter.com/projects/147... #metaverse
And here's Andy's view of me in VR mode. You can switch at will between VR and MR views - guess it will be the same as blurring your background in Zoom.
Really liking ShapesXR as a platform. very simple to build in, share and use. We're both sparking with ideas of how to use it in a a variety of sectors and use cases. #metaverse
Jeremy from ShapesXR taking me through the basics of building in MR in ShapesXR so I can set up an urban wargame #wargaming #quest #metaverse
Busy afternoon following my session with Jeremy from ShapesXR. First up here's the map I used for Cityfight2024, with added 3D buildings. Started bringing the unit blocks in. Just need to decide which of my Pl level rules to play it with. Far easier with ShapesXR than Arkio.
