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.

And then following a discussion earlier in the day when i said I stayed away from space combat games due to the inherent 3D nature of "real" space combat, here's the start of a 3D MR space combat game... #metaverse #wargaming #scifi

Playing around with some different gadgets to help with movement, and to show shields up, and random asteroids. Going to be a lot easier to start with a non-vector movement system I think!

My free White Paper on the Military Applications of Conversational AI is now available for download at www.taunoyen.com/daden/Milita... #metaverse #chatbots #military

The Military Metaverse book that Andy Fawkes & I have co-written is now up on the Taylor & Francis website. Details at www.routledge.com/The-Military.... Pre-orders open 10 April, delivers from 1 May. Series details at themetaverseseries.info #metaverse

I just based the Virtual Worlds Museum on Kickstarter - www.kickstarter.com/projects/147...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... - reminds me of an SL project we did on knife crime up in Lanarkshire back in 2010 - trying to create NPCs that would intimidate the kids' avatars was a challenge, but we did it. #metaverse

JISC has just set up a new virtual world presence. Pity they didn't use a more accessible platform such as Frame where teachers and students could immediately be inspired to start making their own spaces - isn't that real co-design? codesign.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/02/d... #metaverse #edtech

Three better avatars for the characters in the build - Mary Shelley (shortage of period long dresses in ReadyPlayerMe!), Victor Frankenstein and the Creature/Monster. Less than an hour to set all 3 up, complete with RPM design, AI prompts and some source text. A democratic #Metaverse. #FrameVR

Having fun setting up a space in #FrameVR ready for a new project next month. Like the AI NPCs that are embedded in their now. They could do with a few more big open space environments though - who needs walls and roofs in the metaverse! #metaverse

London

Copy-checked Military Metaverse manuscript has been returned to the publishers, so hopefully still on track for a May release #metaverse #militarymetaverse

Converting 2D images to 3D models. Lots of applications for this. generativeai.pub/microsoft-in... #metaverse

From The Guardian: "‘Virtual employees’ could join workforce as soon as this year, OpenAI boss says" - bit of a spectrum really so they've been around in some form for a while. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Andy and I are busy going through the copyeditor's comments on The Military Metaverse. With a following wind it should be out in May. For a chapter list and more info see metaverseseries.blogspot.com/2025/01/mili... #Metaverse #MilitaryMetaverse

Moving my personal posting account over to Bluesky from Twitter. This account covers things related to #AI, #ConversationalAI, #VirtualHumans, #VR, #MR, #Metaverse, my company Daden, and the odd bit of social/space-related stuff. See @urbanwargamer.bsky.social for my wargaming PhD related work.