{"id":4312,"date":"2018-03-11T12:18:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T17:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zoha-islands.com\/?p=4312"},"modified":"2018-03-11T12:18:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T17:18:54","slug":"watch-philip-rosedale-kent-bye-on-how-a-vr-driven-experiential-age-might-evolve-our-relationship-to-material-possessions-the-economy-and-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/watch-philip-rosedale-kent-bye-on-how-a-vr-driven-experiential-age-might-evolve-our-relationship-to-material-possessions-the-economy-and-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Philip Rosedale &#038; Kent Bye On How A VR-Driven &#8220;Experiential Age&#8221; Might Evolve Our Relationship To Material Possessions, The Economy &#8212; And Each Other"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-header\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"entry-body\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z6BDnVUEWZ4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In case you missed it, here&#8217;s last week&#8217;s fireside chat held within High Fidelity featuring the avatars of SL\/HiFi founder Philip Rosedale and VR evangelist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kentbye\">Kent Bye.<\/a>\u00a0I couldn&#8217;t attend, but\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nwn.blogs.com\/nwn\/2017\/01\/high-fidelity-vive-tilt-brush-social-vr-1.html\">famed HiFi content creator<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XaosPrincess\">XaosPrincess<\/a>\u00a0(seen stage left in the amazing gown, more on that later) was there, and she suggested some highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Around 15:00 minutes in, when Ken starts talking about the Experimental Age, and what that means.<\/li>\n<li>About 22:00 minutes: Philip talking about how we&#8217;ll remain in physical, real life contact with our family and close friends, while offloading much of our &#8220;loose tie&#8221; social relationships to VR spaces. They go on to talk about\u00a0access to VR experiences, and how to monetize them: Subscription fee vs. a donation model.<\/li>\n<li>After 42:30 minutes: The Yin and Yang principles of social VR.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>XaosPrincess&#8217; in-person notes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To me,&#8221; she tells me, &#8220;the most insightful quote of the talk was Kent pointing out that &#8216;We&#8217;re moving from the Information Age into the Experiential Age&#8217;. As someone who just loves being in VR, I&#8217;ve always had a vague feeling about this, but it was only after listening to Kent&#8217;s and Philip&#8217;s talk that I realized just how huge the potential of experiential technologies (like VR, AR &amp; AI) having a deep impact on people&#8217;s hearts and minds really can be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That shift has some interesting applications for material possessions and our relationship to them:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a id=\"more\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-more\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341bf74053ef01bb09f9cf52970d image-full img-responsive\" title=\"Fireside Chat High Fidelity Social VR Philip Rosedale Ken Bye\" src=\"http:\/\/nwn.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d8341bf74053ef01bb09f9cf52970d-800wi\" alt=\"Fireside Chat High Fidelity Social VR Philip Rosedale Ken Bye\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the Experiential Age,&#8221; as Xaos puts, summarizing Bye, &#8220;we are moving from a materialistically-driven world, in which people just want to own and consume products, to a world which is much more about the instant: In order to have an experience you actually have to be there, so the access to experiences will supersede the ownership of objects regarding psychological impact and importance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Referring to this, Kent had a very interesting philosophical take on how the economy could work in the future: Instead of a subscription fee which could put creators under update and innovation pressure, a donation or gift economy like that practiced in Buddhism could lead to higher creative freedom and therefore, more diverse and interesting experiences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m personally skeptical if that&#8217;s possible, because I&#8217;ve seen too many great virtual experience creators\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nwn.blogs.com\/nwn\/2011\/07\/second-life-land-prices-choke-the-love-of-second-life.html\">go broke depending on the Buddhistic benevolence of others<\/a>. But it doesn&#8217;t hurt to hope a Yin\/Yang models may arise:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the Experiential Age,&#8221; says Xaos, citing Kent, &#8220;Yin-based principles like cooperation as well as emotional and embodied presence will become as &#8211; or even more &#8211; important than the Yang-based principles like competition and mental presence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alternately, both will exist in tandem and in fierce competition with each other. Anyway, fascination conversation and insights (and reactions from Ms. XP.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, here&#8217;s last week&#8217;s fireside chat held within High Fidelity featuring the avatars of SL\/HiFi founder Philip Rosedale and VR evangelist\u00a0Kent Bye.\u00a0I couldn&#8217;t attend, but\u00a0famed HiFi content creator\u00a0XaosPrincess\u00a0(seen stage left in the amazing gown, more on that later) was there, and she suggested some highlights: Around 15:00 minutes in, when Ken &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/watch-philip-rosedale-kent-bye-on-how-a-vr-driven-experiential-age-might-evolve-our-relationship-to-material-possessions-the-economy-and-each-other\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}