Saturday, October 24, 2020

Google Earth: What is a 'Realistic Virtual Earth'? (Stanford Professor Richard Dasher asked me after this Stanford Asia talk) " * "Autonomous Vehicles and the Digital Transformation of the Automotive Industry in Asia" - https://events.stanford.edu/events/890/89022/ - Stanford US-Asia Technology Management Center * * * And what is a realistic virtual earth for Tourism Studies?

 

What is a 'Realistic Virtual Earth'? (Stanford Professor Richard Dasher asked me after this Stanford Asia talk)


See, for example, this Onsen as a start: 

竹取亭円山 有馬温泉湯めぐりVR https://youtu.be/X6YBetANDUI - 


and see, too, the Harbin Hot Springs' gate in Google Street View with time slider, and 'walk' down the 'road' - 

http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg

(~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~)



 


Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Fri, Oct 23, 10:58 AM (1 day ago)
to contacts, Richard, peng, jpeng
Dear James, and Richard, 

Thanks so much for your edifying "Autonomous Vehicles and the Digital Transformation of the Automotive Industry in Asia" - https://events.stanford.edu/events/890/89022/  - Stanford US-Asia Technology Management Center talk, and conversation, yesterday. I'm writing to follow up about Richard's 'explain your realistic virtual earth concept' regarding mapping and infrastructure inquiry. 

In asking:
"Following on some Waymo questions here, how could modeling/simulations and combined in a single realistic virtual earth for Autonomous Vehicles help Pony.ai with the development of innovations (am thinking re Waymo of Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth with TensorFlow) and a single realistic virtual earth for Robotics https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics?src=hashtag_click - and for aggregating data? How do you / can Pony.ai partner with Google's Waymo for simulations potentially - and in combination with Toyota's? Thanks, Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)" ... 

World Univ & Sch seeks to facilitate a single realistic virtual earth for this - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click - and check out the best STEM CC-4 MIT Open Course Ware courses at World Univ & Sch that WUaS (of which I'm the founder and head, and see too China World Univ & Sch - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China and - planned in the Mandarin language - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Mandarin_language_(Chinese)) will offer for credit with time -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Electric_and_Hybrid_Vehicles.

And while Richard asked me to describe the Realistic Virtual Earth idea, I think I may have, in asking you about Pony.ai collaborating with Waymo digital infrastructure, only mentioned Google Street with time slider, Maps, Earth and with TensorFlow in response, so I'm just writing to suggest that a developing single realistic virtual earth would incorporate predictive analytic information technologies like Lidar, and this image is a great example of what I have in mind in combination with Google Street View infrastructure - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1056927933556711424?s=20 - and, in my conceiving of this, would have a developing focus on the ACTUAL < > VIRTUAL, the PHYSICAL < > DIGITAL. So think in these terms of a Realistic Virtual Earth for Lego robotics - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForLego?src=hashtag_click - with a film-to-3D application - https://twitter.com/hashtag/FilmTo3D?src=hashtag_click - (not yet made for smartphones, for ex.), where you could video your physical Lego robotics' creations, and then add them to a developing single Realistic Virtual Earth for Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles - and even ones which were ambulances in China and eg for https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery?src=hashtag_click . Glad to write in some of these regards that the MIT OCW-centric WUaS Educational Services' Store is officially carrying the 3 Lego Robotics' kits now - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html. 

In what ways could we explore building this single realistic virtual earth at the cellular and atomic levels too in China, for all its people in its rooms - and even in collaboration between Pony.ai and MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch? 

Best regards, Scott




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https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6725200771496996864
Autonomous Vehicles and the Digital Transformation of the Automotive Industry in Asia
https://events.stanford.edu/events/890/89022/


Following on some Waymo questions here, how could modeling/simulations and combined in a single realistic virtual earth for Autonomous Vehicles help Pony.ai with the development of innovations (am thinking re Waymo of Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth with Tensor Flow) and a single realistic virtual earth for Robotics https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics?src=hashtag_click - and for aggregating data? How do you / can Pony.ai partner with Google's Waymo for simulations potentially - and in combination with Toyota's? Thanks, Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org) 

World Univ & Sch seeks to facilitate a single realistic virtual earth for this, and check out the best STEM CC-4 Open Course Ware courses at World Univ & Sch that WUaS will offer for credit with time -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Electric_and_Hybrid_Vehicles.


PPS

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/10/bengal-florican-world-univ-sch.html

LiDAR #sensors produce accurate, real time #3D maps of the environment for #RealisticVirtualEarth Seeking still to convert maps into interactive AVATAR BOTS for ex. for even tele-robotic surgery https://twitter.com/MikeQuindazzi/status/1056893828567912450 -#RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery -https://opentopography.org/blog/lidar-beginning-appear-google-maps-terrain-layer -

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1056927933556711424?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1056931740608950277?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1056931913846280192



LiDAR #sensors produce accurate, real time #3D maps of the environment for #SelfDrivingCars >>> Luminar via
@MikeQuindazzi
 >>> #IoT #autonomousvehicle #AI #Machinelearning #Deeplearning #BigData #autonomousdriving #Insurtech #DataScience #Digital >>>

https://twitter.com/MikeQuindazzi/status/1056893828567912450?s=20



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Scott MacLeod

4:25 PM (0 minutes ago)
to yujie.zhu
Dear Yujie, 

Thanks for your edifying UC Berkeley TSWG talk - 
"Memory, Homecoming and the Politics of Diaspora Tourism in China" - 
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1103050552852&ca=08429bba-d487-462d-990b-014019adbf57

With your mentioning Dean MacCannell's work on authenticity, - a theory I'd suggest which emerges from a modernist approach to Tourism Studies - and your also mentioning "staged authenticity" with regard to a postmodern approach to interpreting tourism, I'm curious, regarding my information technology question, and case example of Richard Peng, autonomous vehicles in China, and Google's Waymo into a realistic virtual earth for tourism (my project), how the information age as a new condition (beyond modernity post-modernity, and advertising discourse - see paper) might inform an interpretation of "Memory, Homecoming and the Politics of Diaspora Tourism in China"?
 
I explore some of these ideas here in a 2000 'theoretical' paper I wrote in Nelson Graburn's "Tourism, Art and Modernity" UC Berkeley course -
"Gazing at the Box: Tourism in the Context of the Internet and Globalization (Internetity)"

In all of these regards, I might explore developing new definitions of internet 'authenticity' - eg seeing/engaging in bodymind paintings in the Louvre museum in person (Dean MacCannell, thanks to the touristic guidebook in part), vs. seeing them on the internet in a virtual Louvre in a myriad of new ways). In what ways is authenticity a helpful concept in your heritage research, Yujie? Would the information age as a condition informing interpretations of tourism yield different approaches than MacCannell's modernity approach, Urry's staged authenticity re post-modernity,, questions of authenticity regarding advertising discourse (Thurot and Thurot - see my paper), and newly what I'm calling internetity' where conditions emerging thanks to the internet and information age encompass and supersede previous approaches in tourism studies to this key concept?

Per my question to you, and 'case example' (of James Peng, his Pony.ai and Google's Waymo data) and RoboTaxis, the idea re Xi'an and Kazakhstan and Muslim ethnic minorities' tourism, with their own languages, would be how they and all of us might shape this single realistic virtual earth, new data, and for heritiage studies, history, and so much more, and via a new social science method I'm calling 'ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - and for their and our own academic studies, tourism studies' wise, heritage wise, and regarding the virtual.
Here's the example I shared (at the online University I'm creating in all ~200 countries, their official & main languages, and in all 7,117 known languages, emerging from CC-4 MIT OCW in its 4 languages, and as wiki, in initially Wikipedia's 300 languages) - 

LiDAR

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1056927933556711424?s=20 -

In ways could we convert these LiDAR images, for example, of people into avatar bots (think Samsung Neons, aka 'artificial humans') of your anthropological touristic subjects, - and even for further research, and in a single realistic virtual earth we all create (almost as an emergent library and museum all in one - am thinking Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow, and the virtual world and data created too by Google's Waymo in the USA, China, Kazakhstan + ).

As Nelson mentioned, I'll be giving a TSWG talk about this in December, with a tentative title of 

"Creating a realistic virtual earth for tourism and tourism studies with actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs: A Case Study"

Thank you for your edifying talk, Yujie. Looking forward to staying in communication, and would welcome reading any thoughts you might have about the above in relation to your talk, the information age theoretically for tourism studies, and your heritage studies approach to tourism. 

Best regards, Scott
More about a realistic virtual earth in my daily blog and in particular about James Peng and Stanford Professor Richard Dasher's recent conversation: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/10/google-earth-what-is-realistic-virtual.html

4 Tourism Studies’ talks in recent years - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/02/blue-borage-4th-harbin-hot-springs.html regarding my actual-virtual, physical-digital Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project. 

The Fourth Lecture the 2020 Online Lecture Series by Dr Yujie Zhu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nb0SSjEFDk&t=1433s
https://youtu.be/1Nb0SSjEFDk




- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 



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Yujie Zhu

Oct 25, 2020, 8:11 PM (16 hours ago)

to me


Hi Scott,



Hi Scott,

It was nice to see you again at the talk, and thank you for your questions. 

I am also grateful for these interesting ideas and projects. The paper you share is great. Do you know content tourism in Japan? I think that is relevant. 

I am developing a new project on ethics of digital heritage.I would be very interested in joining your seminar. Look forward to your virtual hot spring.

cheers,
Yujie


From: Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>
Sent: 25 October 2020 10:25
To: Yujie Zhu <yujie.zhu@anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: [Oct. 23] Memory, Homecoming and the Politics of Diaspora Tourism in China (Y. Zhu)


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Yujie, 

Thanks for your email, your talk, and very nice to see you again as well. I don't know content tourism in Japan. What might you suggest looking at?  

Regarding your new project on ethics of digital heritage, and ethics and tourism, - and the information age as new condition with which to interpret tourism - I wonder if "The Hacker Ethos"  by Pekka Himanen might be of interest to you, re interpreting the ethics of the IT Revolution (and which book and ideas I teach about - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html). Also re ethics, in my peer reviewed chapter on Tourism in the Middle East to online virtual UNESCO World Heritage Sites, I argue that German UNESCO WHS producers engage in a form of orientalism (per Edward Said)
 - and with many ethics' implications (book here - https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity - and I can send you the chapter if interested, which emerges also from getting to know a UC Berkeley Tourism Studies' friend Rami Daher, who edited the book).

And regarding, further, UNESCO WHS, my Univ of Edinburgh MSc dissertation was on visiting virtual St. Kilda, Scotland, as an emerging, or nascent, online 'place' - http://scottmacleod.com/MacLeod%20Physical%20and%20Online%20St%20Kilda%20A%20%20Comparison%20of%20Senses%20of%20Place%20MSc%20Dissertation%20University%20of%20Edinburgh.pdf - regarding your interest in heritage too. 


A realistic virtual earth for EVERYTHING will include a realistic virtual earth for history - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory?src=hashtag_click - and am thinking conceptually in terms of Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, so that we'll be able to time slide back to the making of heritage sites too. 

Looking forward to seeing you on December 18th re my TSWG seminar; am also seeking eventually to teach a research seminar on the making of actual-virtual Harbin emerging from - http://www.scottmacleod.com/research-group.html .

Cheers, 
Scott


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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 


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Yujie, 

Here's Pekka HImanen's book (with Linus Torvalds and Manuel Castells - and again I'm a Castellian) actually, and it's called "The Hacker Ethic" (not 'The Hacker Ethos") - http://index-of.co.uk/Hackers/hacker%20ethic.pdf - re your digital ethics' project.


Have blogged about some of this here further - 

Cheer, Scott
PS
By the way, if you look at this Onsen in your smartphone

竹取亭円山 有馬温泉湯めぐりVR https://youtu.be/X6YBetANDUI - 



click on the little mask to go into stereo-optic mode, and slip it into a Google Cardboard mask if you have that. Am seeking for this to become an ethnographic research field site too, and re my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project. 

How to make this virtual Harbin part of a single realistic virtual earth, so that on my Google Smart TV I could 'travel' anywhere virtually at any time in history and visit anything, and it would keep iterating on itself with more and more data (and at the cellular and atomic levels too)? 


PPS
For genetics too and heritage, and where we could add data with a back pack like this

Church of England to launch a 'Google Maps for graves' w/i five years enabling family historians to search for burial records & locations in an online database -https://dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8068893/Church-England-launch-Google-Maps-graves-five-years.html #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics ~

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1235357771744169985?s=20


PPPS
I have a specific ACTUAL-VIRTUAL, PHYSICAL-DIGITAL focus, and these two Tweets would bring together a realistic virtual earth like Google Street View with physical Lego Robotics for learning even, and in an Anthropology / Tourism Studies' field -  

Robotics & Archaeology https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Archaeology /Robotics in #GoogleStreetView w/ #TIMESLIDER, Maps, Earth #LegoRobotics at first, w/ a developed #BrickStreetView in #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego in 1 #VirtualEarth?

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1302333633131233280?s=20


PPPSa

Archaeology with robotics? - in #GoogleStreetView with #TIMESLIDER, Maps, Earth with #LegoRobotics at first, with a developed #BrickStreetView in an #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego in a SINGLE #RealisticVirtualEarth?

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1302320893197078529?s=20



PPPPS
Anthro book shelves in the UC Berkeley Anthropology library, and regarding Maritime Archaeology -

Ships in #Wikidata https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T237795 as #FieldSites & re Maritime Archaeology books for #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology in #UCBerkeleyAnthroLibrary >#RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForAnthropology & for http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy?m=0 ? & re my
@HarbinBook at Cal

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1208563576836775937?s=20







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