Bruce in the news (last few years)
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2008 - July
Bruce's Terra Nova column mentioned in From the Margins to the Mainland: the Future of Virtual Worlds? Kotaku Australia (July 2008)
Bruce Damer's next (final part) Terra Nova guest column "Virtually Eternal: A Positive Pathway to a Healthy and Sustainable Virtual Worlds Industry?"
Bruce quoted in computerworld article about Cisco CEO John Chambers (July 2008)
The Texas Digital Library's first edition of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research features an article by Bruce Damer: "Meeting in the Ether: A brief history of virtual worlds as a medium for user-created events".
2008 - June
Bruce Damer's new (first part) Terra Nova guest column "A New Virtual World Winter?" for June 2008 generated this commentary on Slashdot and commentary over at gamer news site Kotaku as well as a comment from Cisco CEO John Chambers here Cisco chief lauds coming virtual-world technology Virtual worlds will succeed eventually, Chambers says.
The iDoublet in an excerpt from MacHEADS the Movie (on YouTube)
(Thanks Kobi Shely of MacHEADS the Movie)
2008 - April
Bruce and the Digibarn featured in Christian Science Monitor story "California Museums tell the history of computing" By Ben Arnoldy and Teresa Méndez (May 8, 2008).
Bruce and his 'iDoublet" design in the Second Skin fashion show,
Video and Photographs at www.cyberwearz.com , Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA (April 25, 2008)
Bruce Damer and Allan Lundell on CNET TV LIVE San Francisco (April 24, 2008)
Bruce was on stage at Yuri's Night at NASA's Ames Research Center (April 12, 2008)
2008 - March
Bruce Damer is featured in the Discovery Channel four part series: Human Body, Pushing the Limits. See Bruce in Part 4: Brain Power (recorded in May 2007). Play excerpt below (posted by a fan on YouTube):
2008 - January/February
Bruce Damer was featured in CNET TV's Tales of Silicon Valley - episodes about the Digibarn
Bruce Damer and Galen Brandt to be featured in MacHEADS the movie (see Blog here) and Youtube Trailer here (recorded January 2007).
2007 - November
Bruce Damer's design for a human mission to an asteroid done by DigitalSpace for a NASA feasibility study is covered in a cover story for Popular Science, NASA's New Target (story by Dawn Stover, November 2007).
Bruce was interviewed by Ido Hartogsohn for the Israeli web site Nana (www.nana.co.il), about the possibility for a metaverse, Note this article is in Hebrew. The English version of the original interview is here. (Nov 2007)
2007 - October
Bruce's design simulation (with NASA, DigitalSpace and DM3D Studios) of a human mission to an asteroid, as featured in a short movie on Space.com (Oct 5, 2007)
October 4th: Bruce quoted in a special story by Tom Merritt "Tales of Silicon Valley" about the Digibarn and the "two cultures of Apple" on CNET (news.com).
October 2nd: Bruce quoted in a special story "How NASA helped invent Silicon Valley" on CNET (news.com). Excerpt:
But the impact of the Apollo program on commercial technology goes far beyond such highly specialized equipment and missions. According to Bruce Damer, founder of the DigiBarn computer museum and a frequent NASA contractor himself through his company DigitalSpace, it's possible to draw a direct evolutionary link between the simple flight simulators NASA was using for the Apollo astronauts in 1967 and 1968--what he called "one of the first highly interactive computer environments"--and some of the early commercial video games.
Similarly, NASA's work with wind tunnels at Moffett became so expensive that the agency decided to turn to supercomputers for more cost-effective simulations.
And that, in conjunction with work done at Ames on tele-operations and telepresence--research that tried to simulate the interior of the space shuttle--led to the creation of 3D graphics, head-mounted displays and early virtual reality technology, all partially funded by NASA.
2007 - September
Bruce was guest columnist in ACM interactions magazine. Title of the column: "Meeting in the Ether" about the history of avatars and virtual worlds. You can see an extended version of that column here.
2007 - August
 Bruce and the Digibarn on News.com (Aug 2007) |
 Bruce and Al on the digibarn on CNET TV (Aug 2007) |
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2007 - July
 Space.com highlighted the DigitalSpace design for a human mission to a NEO in a wide ranging, excellent interview by veteran space journalist Leonard David. See the narrated movie of our design simulation hosted by Space.com here. |
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2007 - March
Recent print media news coverage:
Bruce featured in stories on the second wave of avatars in the Christian Science Monitor and USA Today (16 Mar 2007), and the Philadelphia Inquirer with a companion article here (18 Mar 2007)
2007 - February
Bruce on KION 46 (CBS) on Second Life (Feb 22, 2007)
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2006 - November
Bruce was Newsmaker of the day on CNET, Nov 9, 2006, read
interview here. Also see the virtual worlds timeline project.
 Bruce, Steve Wozniak, Daniel Kottke, Chris Espinosa and Randy Wigginton presented: Apple@30, 1976: Apple in the Garage (Nov 4, 2006) |
2005 - November
Bruce appears in Emmy-nominated "How William Shatner Changed the World" on Discovery, History Channels
(broadcast in HD, continuously, worldwide).
January 2005 - Icons .net Revolutionaries: Interview in Internet.au (interview by Erik Davis, Nov 2004)
2006 - CanWest story about Bruce and the DigiBarn
May 2001 - Interview in Click Magazine: Digital Space Cowboy Cyberspace visionary Bruce Damer is bringing another dimension to the web: the third one (by Nicole Auch Freeling).
November 26, 1998 - NEWS WATCH; Virtual Meeting Held For 4,000 Who Stayed Home in New York Times.
December 18, 1997 - Public Eye; One second you're James Taylor, the next you're Freud in New York Times.
December 12, 1997 - Bruce Damer, auteur van 'Atavar! Exploring and building virtual... (in Dutch) NRC Handelsblad.
November 20, 1997 - A Digital You in the Austin-American Statesman (Note, story is pay per view) .
October 14, 1997 - VRML has promise, but when will it be practical? on CNN.com.
July 10, 1996 - Story in PRNewswire, excerpt: "Worlds Inc., the worldwide leader in Internet Virtual Reality, today announced that their online multiuser 3-D community, AlphaWorld, will be the exclusive 3-D English location for the first ever 3-D singles party on the World Wide Web. The event is hosted by the Contact Consortium, a non-profit organization committed to online communication and community building, and Match.com, a leading online dating service."
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