Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Anna's hummingbird (Calypte anna): Avatar bots emerging ... talking ... and for genealogy platforms? * Google Earth Image - & Genealogy Avatar Bots (of our ancestors), * And agreed, - and yet from within the Google Street View ecosystem perspective, with the upload-able image behind it (or or .mp4 video perspective), this is the first I've seen of a beginning almost-avatar in Google (Google in my experience hasn't done much at all with avatars ... ) ... and it can't talk either!!!! :) since I haven't seen any lip movements on Google platforms ... except perhaps in the Youtube (also Google) animation of Max Ehrmann 'reading' his Desiderata at the end (around slide 90) of my UC Berkeley Anthropology talk * * Doubleday's hummingbird (Cynanthus doubledayi): Creating a realistic virtual earth for tourism and tourism studies with actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs: A Case Study * UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG talk on F 12/18/2020 at 4 pm PT * * Here's the TSWG video from Friday, 12/18/20 - "SGK MacLeod TSWG 12 18 2020 Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth Harbin for Tourism" * * Now why can't we head into virtual Harbin right now from home ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ and soak, and do / write / EWVWG ethnography at the e-same time? ... and simply hang out in the pool area socially, as well as head into the pools some times?


Avatar bots emerging ... talking ... and for genealogy platforms?



Mark, 


Thanks so much for your kind hospitality, your connecting in Maine recently, and thanks too for 'getting it' esp ... for your understanding (and familially!) ... re World Univ & Sch for example! I Greatly appreciate our 'family' visit ... and how you made it happen so superbly ... thank you ... Looking forward to chatting soon, whether on the phone or in video conferencing ... and staying in communication in email too. 

Regarding brainstorming about pictures of our ancestors associated with MacLeod places in (the so cool) Google Earth Pro ... and even beginning eventually to talk  ... am wondering too whether the cinematic mp4 below could be part of this initially for a sense of 'physical' presence through movement, for example too, as these images emerge, hypothetically, from Google Earth 'talking' via chat bot software too in the future! 

Google Earth Pro and what you created are very cool ... I was almost going to share these MacLeod places with you, my mother and Sandy ... but was a little uncertain whether I could or not per what you said yesterday ... even after deleting you and your Dad and the other person ... (some sort of CC licensing could help in some related situations, I'd think!)

But I think people would or will have fun creating emerging talking Avatar bots on genealogy platforms ... in brand new ways ... 

... as would they have fun EVEN editing in traits genetically from their ancestors into their own genomes as mathematical sequences even re computing in the future ... and possibly on these genealogy platforms ... 

A university degree in 'History, Computer Science and Biology' specifically for genetic genealogy too could be fascinating to develop at World Univ & Sch - and also especially to teach to people - with time. At the Bachelor and PhD levels too at WUaS? Let's explore :)

So great to visit, and thank you so much, Mark!

Warm regards, Scott


Added this pin to a new 

'Alexander Chadbourne Brown's home'

Alexander Chadbourne and Rachel Gilbert Brown's home in the 1960s and 1970s in Cincinnati Ohio (Scott GK MacLeod's maternal grandparents)

of 



to a new folder in Google Earth Pro called 

'Brown Chadbourne places to Mark MacLeod for learning' 

Brown Chadbourne places to cousin Mark MacLeod for Scott GK MacLeod's learning of Google Earth Pro

but the email share option I found only opens in Apple Mail and NEWLY ... it's via a gmail account of mine, so I was able to send at least something from Google Earth Pro via Apple Mail to you and me ... more to explore :)



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Google Earth Image viewed on web 


'Alexander Chadbourne Brown's home'

Alexander Chadbourne and Rachel Gilbert Brown's home in the 1960s and 1970s in Cincinnati Ohio (Scott GK MacLeod's maternal grandparents)

https://earth.google.com/web/@0,0,0a,22251752.77375655d,35y,0h,0t,0r?utm_source=earth7&utm_campaign=vine&hl=en

https://earth.google.com/web/@39.20061829,-84.56224158,1369.06704027a,0d,35y,0.0000h,0.0000t,0.0000r?utm_source=earth7&utm_campaign=vine&hl=en



Mark, 


Added this pin to a new 

'Alexander Chadbourne Brown's home'

Alexander Chadbourne and Rachel Gilbert Brown's home in the 1960s and 1970s in Cincinnati Ohio (Scott GK MacLeod's maternal grandparents)

of 



to a new folder in Google Earth Pro called 

'Brown Chadbourne places to Mark MacLeod for learning' 

Brown Chadbourne places to cousin Mark MacLeod for Scott GK MacLeod's learning of Google Earth Pro

but the email share option I found only opens in Apple Mail and I don't think my Apple ID password is working (and Apple is byzantine in getting it sorted out)! :)  Go figure re sharing Google Earth Pro 



Scott



Google Earth streams the world over wired and wireless networks enabling users to virtually go anywhere on the planet and see places in photographic detail.  This is not like any map you have ever seen.  This is a 3D model of the real world, based on real satellite images combined with maps, guides to restaurants, hotels, entertainment, businesses and more.  You can zoom from space to street level instantly and then pan or jump from place to place, city to city, even country to country.

Get Google Earth.  Put the world in perspective.




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Mark MacLeod

Tue, Aug 3, 1:31 PM (23 hours ago)
to me
To save a pin, or group of pins, click once on the pin or folder and then select File -> Save As ... and Google Earth will save a file with the .kmz extension. Then, attach that file to an email.

My thinks we are a long ways away from avatar bots. No offense but your .mp4 'video' is pretty unimpressive.



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Thanks, Mark


And attached are two tests ... Thanks again so much!

And agreed, - and yet from within the Google Street View ecosystem perspective, with the upload-able image behind it (or or .mp4 video perspective), this is the first I've seen of a beginning almost-avatar in Google (Google in my experience hasn't done much at all with avatars ... ) ... and it can't talk either!!!! :) since I haven't seen any lip movements on Google platforms ... except perhaps in the Youtube (also Google) animation of Max Ehrmann 'reading' his Desiderata at the end (around slide 90) of my UC Berkeley Anthropology talk 
in December 2020 - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/doubledays-hummingbird-cynanthus.html (which might even be able to be saved as a .mp4 file from Youtube) ...  Glad nevertheless that that .mp4 just popped up, perhaps as a kind of seed, ... and agreed too ... am not very impressive from Google (at this stage)!

Regards, 
Scott


-- 
- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 


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Doubleday's hummingbird (Cynanthus doubledayi): Creating a realistic virtual earth for tourism and tourism studies with actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs: A Case Study * UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG talk on F 12/18/2020 at 4 pm PT * * Here's the TSWG video from Friday, 12/18/20 - "SGK MacLeod TSWG 12 18 2020 Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth Harbin for Tourism" * * Now why can't we head into virtual Harbin right now from home ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ and soak, and do / write / EWVWG ethnography at the e-same time? ... and simply hang out in the pool area socially, as well as head into the pools some times?

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/doubledays-hummingbird-cynanthus.html 




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Claus, Susan

Aug 3, 2021, 2:54 PM (1 day ago)
to me, Janie, lillianbthomas@aol.com, Sandy, Henry
Scotty- You should move to Pittsburgh to be closer to your Mom. Plus, Pittsburgh. Just saying. 

Susan Claus
Librarian, Manager
Children & Teen Services
Northland Public Library
300 Cumberland Road, Pittsburgh PA 15237
412-366-8100 ext. 120  northlandlibrary.org

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Dear Sue (Ma, Larry, Pin, Tym, Sandy, LIllian, All),


I need to make working - for connecting - a really great realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs - think Google Street View with Time Slider - a realistic virtual Scotland too as well as New Zealand ... and for Pittsburghers - soon! :) .... https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthforTraveling?src=hashtag_click  ... for the experience of visiting and traveling to, interacting in, and conversing with people there, these places from Pittsburgh :) ... 

Mini family reunion this past weekend with MacLeods in Maine - thank you Mark MacLeod!!! (and with all offspring of Kenneth and Margaret MacLeod, our paternal grandparents) - was even better face-to-face in person, than it could have been virtually, but I would seek to create aspects of this too virtually further in the future ! :))

We've had one go around with everybody creating virtual experiences - due to the non-SARS CoV2 non-epidemic, and 15 months of self-quarantine - and got sort of a bit further with group video conferencing ... but I'm optimistic we can travel away from Pittsburgh, and celebrate in new great ways with family ... virtually, and extraordinarily, with time! :))

Warmly, Scott


Some related ideas, and pics, and I hope to blog today a conversation between Mark and myself further about some of these questions, and for genetic genealogy and related platforms too  - ! 

Cuttyhunk Island Massachusetts, 5 years ago today:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/MCwQMto8uiEzhGcd8 #Cuttyhunk #RealisticVirtualEarthforTraveling
#RealisticVirtualEarthForSailing
#RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory, in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth #wuAsVR https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sailing
@WorldUnivAndSch @scottmacleod
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https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1406634356743958537?s=20



From Monticello to India to computers to California coast
https://photos.app.goo.gl/bf7ifppxuj5bACdv7
@sgkmacleod @scottmacleod @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress @TheOpenBand
 but no pics of Harbin
@HarbinBook
 re #RealisticVirtualHarbin in #WUaSVr in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthforTraveling #WorldUnivAndSch ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1406472254737719298?s=20

 

-- 
- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 



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