We’re still trying to get the hang of Web 2.0 but researchers are already onto Web 3.0. Calit2@UCI this month held an Igniting Technology presentation on “Web 3.0: The Next Transformation of the Internet Experience.”
According to the researcers, “Web 3.0 encompasses virtual spaces, massively multiplayer online games (MMOG) and augmented reality that once again will change the way consumers and corporations utilize the Internet.”
Walt Scacchi, a senior research scientist at UCI’s Institute for Software Research and associate director of the Game Lab, told attendees that his researchers are receiving inquiries from coporations that “see games as potential work places where people can collaborate.”
He says: “Web 3.0 is bringing together games with scientific models, simulation and visualization, [creating] a new technology that can be made more accessible to people and maybe even transform future business.”
Bill Tomlinson, a UCI assistant professor of informatics who studies multi-agent systems, human-computer interaction, real time graphics and environmental technologies, says Web 3.0 will see better interaction between humans and machines. Also key will be the ability to network machines together, briging together the humans who are operating them – in much the same way as online games bring global players together.
More about the conference here.
