Doug Hohulin, “People-Centered Metaverse”

Greetings People Centered Internet (PCI) Community members:

Our next PCI Community call will be Sunday 13 February at 11:30 AM ET GMT-5 featuring Doug Hohulin, a regular participant on our calls. He will share:

“Creating a People-Centered Metaverse of Abundance and Opportunity for All”

Doug will provide a short overview of what is the Metaverse and how to prepare for the changes in our world that are about to take place – and insight on how to create a positive people-centered metaverse for all. The Metaverse/XR/Spatial Web 3/Web 3D is going to be as disruptive to our world in the late 2020s as smartphones were in the 2010s and cell phones & PCs in the 2000s.

Today businesses and educators are struggling with Teams & Zoom meetings and XR is difficult to use.  But in the next three to five years, metaverse technology could be as easy to use as a smartphone.  In 10 years, smartglasses will replace the smartphone for a fully immersive experience that is indistinguishable from the physical world.  

Rather than a world of Hyper-Reality, Doug is working to create a world of Consonance-Reality, a world of calmness when needed yet a world of learning, connecting, information, entertainment, excitement, and joy when desired (preview: youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs).

Doug is a Metaverse – XR – Web 3D Technology & Innovation Advisor focusing on healthcare, education, AV/transportation and 5G/6G projects. He worked at Nokia/Motorola for 33 years connecting people to the people, information and things they value.  Doug worked as a Government Technology & Innovation Advisor to Aspen Institute fellow to create a policy memo for the Chief Innovation Officer at the Department of Labor that addresses XR in industry and is focusing on how the Metaverse will impact the future of work.  From 1G to 5G and even 6G, XR/Metaverse, AV, AI, Telepresence, Distance Learning, Telemedicine, Smart City & Digital Health projects, Doug focuses on strategy and business development for a more abundant and sustainable world for all.  Doug is working to connect the unconnected, the elimination of the 1.35M road traffic deaths and to increase the digital economy & reduce the physical economy to minimize humanity’s carbon footprint.  He is part of the KC Health Innovation Team kcdigitaldrive.org/project/health-innovation-team/, KC & TxDOT AV Task Forces, Kansas University Cybersecurity Board, University of Central Missouri (UCM) Gigabit Lab Advisory Board and a High School VR Hackathon Mentor and girlsteaminstitute.org/  Mentor.  He co-leads the KU school of Nursing AR/AR Animating Medical Manikin Team project that won 1st Prize in the AR/VR Hackathon to use XR to lower the cost of existing $30K-$200K Manikins Solutions. This team is building a coalition of Nursing schools in the KC metro areas to deploy 5G/XR technology for medical simulation and other applications.

Doug has spoken on 5G, 6G, Metaverse/XR, AI, AV, future of work & Cybersecurity to K-12, University Students, Customers, Partners, Government, IEEE and other groups. One Presentation: 6G – Bridging the Physical-Digital-Biological World: When will there be 1 Billion 5G and VR Users. linkedin.com/pulse/21st-century-billions-doug-hohulin/

Doug Hohulin on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/doughohulin/

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