Joe Pine lectured tonight(monday the 21st of Jan) at the Meeting up network in de Rode Hoed in Amsterdam He presented for the first time his new multiverse model where he has been working on now for seven years as he told me. The concept and ideas of multiverse origin and are inspired from the book Snowcrash of Neal Stephenson(1992). In this book the future is described of 3D-internet. The universe takes place in the dimensions time, space and matter. Imagine yourself time on the y axe and space on the x-axe and matter as the diagnol. Time, space and matter take place in the physical world. The opposite of matter(atoms) is non matter(bits) the virtual world. The opposite of time is no -time, non linear. The opposite of space is no-space. In the 1st quadrant of time, physical and matter we find the present physical reality.The 2nd quadrant is limited by two dimensions the physical and the no-time dimension, this is the dimension of the augmented and alternated reality. The 3rd quadrant of no -space and no-time, we find the dimension of the virtual world.( in this belong the 2nd life, and habbo hotel examples). The 3rd quadrant is limited by the non -physical, no-space and time, this dimension is called the augmented virtuality and the physical virtuality. In this four quadrants Pine differentiates between the physical virtuality, the alternate reality, augmented virtuality and the mirror world. It will take a while to really understand the model. The power of the model is the consistent logic reasoning into these different worlds which opens windows in how different media and experience providers can add value and experiences to their existing offerings. Joe is still looking for the real opposites of the augmented virtuality and the augmented or alternate reality. We promise to write more about this model. It takes a while to let it sink in. It is actually interesting to see the development of Pine’s thinking. The location hierarchy model proves to be a sort of in between step of this multiverse model.The lecture of Joe can be watched on Henk Jan’s Winkeldermaat webloghttp://eventbranche.blogs.com/eventbranche_weblog/2008/01/eindelijk-einde.html