Chapter 03: the Beginnings
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Before the beginning a Tibetan monk came to the United States and took on a young student.
Before Play as Being was "Ways of Knowing" or "WoK" that was in QWAQ, a very different kind of virtual world. QWAQ (http://qwaq.com) is a company that allows one to set meeting rooms and quickly import presentation materials. It would allow anything on a computer screen, including movies, to be projected on to the wall. Blackboards also were available. At the time, the avatars were rectangles with squares for heads above and voice was the main venue of communication although chat was used to ask questions that could be answered when the speaker was ready.
See Virtual Laboratories and Virtual Worlds by Piet Hut (http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/...712.1655v1.pdf)
see Exploring Reality in Virtual Worlds...an Interview with Piet Hut
http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/01/15/e...with-piet-hut/
see Ways of Knowing Website (http://wok.kira.org/)
Pema and Stim discuss the prehistory in the following sessions:
http://playasbeing.wik.is/Chat_Logs/..._Pema_and_Stim
http://playasbeing.wik.is/Chat_Logs/..._Pema_and_Stim
How it all started: