每个人都可以参与构建元节

元宇宙的承诺远远超出了数字空间——它也可以改变和丰富我们体验物质世界的方式。从将社区聚集在一起的视频游戏到与物理空间碰撞的数字艺术，增强现实设计师 Sutu 分享了一些由 AR Metaverse 技术激发的令人难以置信的创造力，并邀请我们所有人参与建设它的未来。

Do you remember when we all had to stop the spread and stay at home? Well, I tell you, one of the unexpected, positive things to come out of that time -- well, other than the normalization of comfortable clothing in public, obviously --

你还记得我们都必须阻止传播并留在家里吗？ 好吧，我告诉你， 那段时间出现的一件意想不到的积极的事情—— 好吧，除了在公共场合穿着舒适的衣服， 显然——

was that my industry, digital art and immersive entertainment,experienced a huge surge of interest. More folks than ever before turned to their screens to seek out digital experiences and online connection and well, social connection in online spaces.We couldn't connect in-person, so suddenly, our digital lives took on a whole new level of importance. This sudden global demandaccelerated the research and development of a previously sci-fi concept known as the metaverse. In the metaverse, we will connect with one another as virtual avatars. We will live, work and play together, building a whole new, magical dimension of existence.

是我的行业，数字艺术 和沉浸式娱乐， 经历了巨大的兴趣。 比以往任何时候都更多的人转向他们的屏幕 来寻找数字体验和在线联系以及在线空间中的社交联系。 我们无法亲自联系， 所以突然间，我们的数字生活变得更加重要。 这种突如其来的全球需求 加速了以前称为元宇宙的科幻概念的研究和开发。 在元宇宙中，我们将作为虚拟化身相互连接。我们将一起生活、工作和娱乐，建立一个全新的、神奇的存在维度。

It sounds like a dream, right? Well, technically, it’s a programmer’s nightmare. But if we can pull it off, it will become the world's largest community-driven digital world-building experiment to date.

这听起来像个梦，对吧？ 好吧，从技术上讲，这是程序员的噩梦。但如果我们能够成功， 它将成为迄今为止世界上最大的社区驱动的数字世界建设实验。

But we don't want to sit inside staring at our screens anymore. At least I don't. I love my digital art, but I want to take it with me out into the real world. So let's do that.

但是我们不想再坐在里面盯着我们的屏幕了。 至少我没有。 我喜欢我的数字艺术， 但我想把它带入现实世界。 所以让我们这样做。

This is (Never) Lonely Boy. He's sitting in the abandoned lot by himself, until he's surrounded by his virtual friends. Now, what if those virtual friends could join me here on the TED stage?

这是（从不）孤独的男孩。 他一个人坐在废弃的地段， 直到他被他的虚拟朋友包围。 现在，如果那些虚拟朋友可以和我一起登上 TED 舞台呢？

Hey, little buddies. Now, ideally, we'd all be wearing augmented reality glasses, but consumer-ready AR glasses are not quite there yet, but this is kind of cool. But how can we build on this?You know, what's next? And is there a way for the digital experiences that we create to truly enrich our physical lives?

嘿，小伙伴们。 现在，理想情况下，我们都将戴上增强现实眼镜，但面向消费者的增强现实眼镜还没有出现， 但这有点酷。 但是我们如何在此基础上进行构建呢？ 你知道，下一步是什么？ 有没有办法让我们创造的数字体验 真正丰富我们的物质生活？

So today I'll propose three pillars, for what I think will help us build a healthy metaverse. Starting off with pillar number one: community. So back in 2010, I had a very enriching experiencewhen I got to collaborate with a bunch of geniuses in the Pilbara desert in northern western Australia. Meet the Love Punks. So we went about our digital world-building in a very analog way.We got dressed up, we put on a face paint, we built sets, and then we brainstormed our stories by acting them out. Now, what blew my mind was how invested these young people became in their digital identities and their digital world-building, that it motivated them to show up every single day, for two years, to learn how to color themselves in the comic and animate themselves in the video game. Now, the Love Punks began as a collaboration with a community of around 40 people and five grandmas. There was -- Grandmas, they were the wildest punks.

所以今天我将提出三个支柱， 因为我认为这将帮助我们建立一个健康的元宇宙。 从第一支柱开始：社区。 所以回到 2010 年，当我 在澳大利亚西部北部的皮尔巴拉沙漠与一群天才合作时，我获得了非常丰富的经历。 认识爱朋克。因此，我们以一种非常模拟的方式构建了我们的数字世界。我们穿好衣服，涂上面部彩绘，搭建布景，然后通过表演来集思广益。现在，让我大吃一惊的是这些年轻人如何投入到他们的数字身份和他们的数字世界建设中， 这促使他们在两年内 每天都出现，学习如何在漫画中为自己着色 并在视频游戏中为自己制作动画。 现在，Love Punks 开始 与大约 40 人和五位祖母的社区合作。 有—— 祖母，他们是最狂野的朋克。

And in Australia, they went on to inspire a live-action TV seriesand a national curriculum teaching young Australians how to become Love Punks.

在澳大利亚， 他们继续启发了一部真人电视剧 和一个国家课程，教授年轻的澳大利亚人如何成为爱朋克。

It's not bad for a bunch of punks.

这对一群朋克来说还不错。

So that experience highlighted to me how the digital worlds we build can be a wonderful playground for exploring identity, for learning new skills, for practicing creativity and bringing our communities together.

因此，这一经历向我强调了 我们构建的数字世界如何成为 探索身份、学习新技能、 实践创造力 和将我们的社区团结在一起的绝佳游乐场。

And that brings us to pillar number two: technology and more specifically, access to technology. We need to ensure everyone can participate in this future metaverse. So around the same time as Love Punks, I began imagining how to scale these digital world-building ideas in my cyberpunk web comic called Nawlz.Now I imagined, like, a future digital culture where the youth had chips in their head that allowed them to project their art and imagination onto a shared digital layer that covered themselvesand their city. So like, they could hang out at the club wearing their virtual fashion. Or they could get chased down the street by some crazy digital tentacle things that got pretty weird. That digital culture would be described today as an augmented reality metaverse. Now we're probably not all ready to get chips in our heads, but thankfully we can access augmented reality on our mobile devices.

这给我们带来了第二个支柱： 技术 ，更具体地说，是获得技术。我们需要确保每个人都可以参与到这个未来的元宇宙中。 因此，大约在制作 Love Punks 的同时， 我开始想象如何 在我的赛博朋克网络漫画 Nawlz 中扩展这些数字世界建设的想法。 现在，我想象了一种未来的数字文化 ，在这种文化中，年轻人脑子里装着芯片 ，让他们能够将他们的艺术和想象力 投射到一个共享的数字层上，覆盖他们自己 和他们的城市。 就像， 他们可以穿着他们的虚拟时装在俱乐部里闲逛。 或者他们可能会在街上被追赶 通过一些疯狂的数字触手，事情变得非常奇怪。 这种数字文化今天将被描述 为增强现实元宇宙。 现在我们可能还没有准备好将芯片放在我们的脑海中， 但幸运的是我们可以在我们的移动设备上访问增强现实。

So one day I received a mysterious comment on that web comic.It read: "We could make some of those things ..." Very mysterious. So I clicked on the user profile and discovered that person was an augmented reality programmer.

所以有一天我收到了一篇关于那部网络漫画的神秘评论。 上面写着： “我们可以制造一些这样的东西……” 非常神秘。 所以我点击了用户资料 ，发现那个人是增强现实程序员。

So I messaged them back immediately: "Yes" Let's make all the things!!!" That person, Lukasz Karluk is now my business partner,and we augmented everything. Augmented reality comics, augmented reality tattoos, stickers. There's a cute little turtle.Kids could color in their own kites and then fly them immediatelyas augmented reality kites. I even AI hacked "The New York Times." That was a little controversial.

所以我立即回复他们： “是的，让我们做所有的东西！！！” 那个人，Lukasz Karluk 现在是我的商业伙伴， 我们增强了一切。 增强现实漫画，增强现实纹身，贴纸。 还有一只可爱的小乌龟. 孩子们可以给自己的风筝上色，然后立即将它们 作为增强现实风筝放飞。我什至 AI 破解了“纽约时报”。 这有点争议。

We had a lot of artists reaching out to us, asking how we were doing it. So we created tools to allow them to augment their work. And very quickly, we had a community of artists covering the world with their augmented art. It was beautiful. I felt like my vision was finally starting to make some traction. But up until now, all the experiences that I've shared have been standalone.For example, a Love Punk's avatar kind of like step out of the video game and then suddenly appear walking down the streetbeside you in augmented reality? Like, that digital bridge doesn't exist yet. But what if it did?

我们有很多艺术家联系我们， 询问我们是如何做到的。 因此，我们创建了工具，让他们能够增强他们的工作。 很快，我们就有了一个艺术家社区， 他们用他们的增强艺术覆盖了世界。 它过去挺美。我觉得我的愿景终于开始产生一些牵引力。 但到目前为止， 我分享的所有经验都是独立的。 例如，Love Punk 的头像 有点像走出电子游戏 ，然后突然出现 在增强现实中走在你身边的街道上？ 就像，那个数字桥还不存在。 但如果真的发生了呢？

And this brings me to my third pillar: decentralization. So for us to move seamlessly through the metaverse, we need for our art and our avatars to be decentralized. We can't be dependent on a single platform. Sorry, Zuck.

这让我想到了我的第三个支柱： 权力下放。 因此，为了让我们在元宇宙中无缝移动， 我们需要让我们的艺术和化身去中心化。 我们不能依赖单一平台。 对不起，扎克。

I mean, what if that platform were to die? We don't want to lose our art. So NFTs -- another word that's been flying around a lot lately -- help us to solve this problem. NFTs are unique, decentralized digital assets, and they've also come to represent a new economy that has been widely accepted as the norm for buying and selling digital art. So not only can NFTs move from one platform to the next, but they can be sold and digital artists can get paid. And that all helps to keep the lights on in the metaverse.

我的意思是，如果那个平台死了怎么办？ 我们不想失去我们的艺术。 因此，NFT—— 另一个最近流行的词—— 帮助我们解决了这个问题。 NFT 是独特的、去中心化的数字资产， 它们也代表了一种新经济 ，已被广泛接受 为买卖数字艺术的规范。 因此，NFT 不仅可以从一个平台转移到另一个平台， 而且可以出售，数字艺术家可以获得报酬。 而这一切都有助于保持元节中的灯火通明。

So lately I've been kicking the wheels of my own metaversecalled the Sutuverse. Very humble. And my first project in the Sutuverse is Neonz. I illustrated hundreds of cyberpunk characteristics like virtual reality headsets and face tattoos and antennas. Then we created a tool to combine all these characteristics together to generate 10,000 unique avatars as NFT artworks. We then put those NFT artworks up on the environmentally friendly Tezos blockchain. Thousands of fellow cyberpunk enthusiasts collected them. Thank you. We then connected our augmented reality app to that blockchain to allow our community to become their Neonz in AR. And look at us.We're like a cyberpunk Brady Bunch. And just imagine again, when we have those augmented reality glasses and we can just see each other down the pub like this, like, that'll be one hell of a Neonz reunion. If you're not interested in the theatrics of putting Neonz on your face, that's cool. Because you can also put your Neonz floating out there in the physical world. So there's some Neonz down in the snow, Neonz down the beach, Neonz floating above an oblivious cat. And if you're not interested in the Neonz aesthetic, that's fine, too, because soon you'll be able to put any digital art you've created or collected floating out there in the physical world.

所以最近我一直在踢我自己的元 宇宙，叫做 Sutuverse。 很谦虚。我在 Sutuverse 的第一个项目是 Neonz。 我展示了数百种赛博朋克特征 ，例如虚拟现实耳机、面部纹身和天线。 然后我们创建了一个工具，将所有这些特征结合在一起 ，生成 10,000 个独特的头像作为 NFT 艺术品。 然后，我们将这些 NFT 艺术品 放在环保的 Tezos 区块链上。 成千上万的赛博朋克爱好者收集了它们。 谢谢你。 然后，我们将增强现实应用程序连接到该区块链 ，让我们的社区成为他们在 AR 中的 Neonz。 看看我们。 我们就像一个赛博朋克布雷迪束。 再想象一下，当我们有那些增强现实眼镜时 ，我们可以像这样在酒吧里看到对方， 就像，那将是一个地狱般的 Neonz 重聚。 如果您对将 Neonz 戴在脸上的戏剧效果不感兴趣， 那很酷。因为你也可以让你的 Neonz 漂浮在现实世界中。 所以有一些尼奥兹在雪地里， 尼奥兹在海滩上，尼奥兹漂浮在一只健忘的猫上。 如果你对 Neonz 美学不感兴趣，那也没关系， 因为很快你就可以将你创造或收集的任何数字艺术 漂浮在现实世界中。

So I feel like our Love Punks community and our Neonz community are totally ready for this future. But how are you folks feeling?

所以我觉得 我们的 Love Punks 社区和 Neonz 社区 已经为这个未来做好了充分的准备。 但是你们感觉怎么样？

Are you ready for this brave new digital world?

你准备好迎接这个勇敢的新数字世界了吗？