2 posts tagged “immersion”
True, present, deeply engaged. Aware of everyone in collaboration, their roles....strengths.....weaknesses.
Circles of trust built around flexible systems that allow for people to grow and change over time.
Diversity, creativity, user-created worlds with room to build onto "the game" or whatever challenge is set out in a day.
These games are our lives: little interactive diversions are the way we have learned to interact and touch our world. For some of us this is full immersion in some digital form, while others dabble with cell phone photos and social networks. The result is similar....over time, new patterns emerge in the game players who have learned to type their thoughts most clearly, as if QWERTY was the universal language.
I still contend that love = energy in every brilliant game. There's endless ways to design a strategic playspace but no play feels like play without love. We need that passion in order to enjoy the playful experiences of our lives.
Tools are endless, available from anyone with enough creativity to build a better bridge.
In this world my flights are as long as I want them to be, not dictated by oil poured into a plastic and metal machine. My mobility is endless too and soaring never gets tiring.
"The Game" is vast, our board the streets and homes within homes. Perhaps you live on Baltic or St. Charles, or maybe Ventnor? Pacific? I've seen the boardwalk homes and they need work too. What do you most want to see there next?
Find what you love and do it. Happiness in life really seems to be a constant process loop on this basic love pursuit. The game then, at any stage, is really about where your heart is at.
As many of you know parts of my job include creating new media shorts and immersion experiences for large and small audiences. Some of my work is very much designed for a niche audience, in this case those interested in philanthropy, law and the unique community-building challenges that entangle our digital lives. This emerging field of study has been led by USC, MacArthur and others as we try to chart a productive course through the etheric digital universe.
While some wrestle with the relevance of these spaces I am always encouraged to see 100+ leaders gather together for honest dialogue without the cost of travel or carbon in the air. We can do far better and we will continue to learn how to maximize these experiences for the masses. I for one need to learn how to buy new hard drives faster to keep up with the machinima documentary flubug that keeps infecting my mouse trigger key....lost the bulk of the footage today to a full disk!