S.W.I.M. for veyance safety: ... eXtendiVerse (XV)















Steve Mann, Jaden Bhimani, Calum Leaver-Preyra, Kyle Simons, and Jimi Tjong, IEEE ICVES, Bogotá, Colombia, 2022 November 14-16  

S.W.I.M.


Photograph of car with SWIM:

SWIM = Sequential Wave Imprinting Machine

See and photograph metaveillance

(the eXtendiVerse, abbreviated "XV")

MotoMetaVerse















See and photograph magnetic fields with SWIM

















Photograph of radio wave, S. Mann, July 6, 1974

















Metavision, S. Mann, 1974

See and photograph sensors (e.g. police radar).
Metavision(1974) and XR(1991): predecessors of metaverse(1992)

Modern metavision: IoT
DR = Diminshed Reality = sensory attenuation

None of the prior realities (VR, AR, MR, MiXR, etc.) directly address sensory attenuation!

Earplugs, sunglasses, HDR welding helmets, sensory deprivation tanks, and Sensory Reprivation™

Mersivity™

Origins of VR in theatre [Artaud 1938].

XR originated in darkroom environment.

Total sensory deprivation defines the origin (zero point) of XV Continuum.
World’s first VR float tank built by Mann et al.
[Surveillance & Society 1(3), pp 375-398, 2003]
[Leonardo 37(5), pp 372-374, 2004]
 Multimediated Reality/Intelligence™
Mersivity™ Immersive/Submersive Reality



FIRST create total sensory deprivation!
THEN introduce multimediated reality content!
XR Definition:

XR is any combination of a virtual environment with reality where the virtual environment is responsive to a real or complex-valued output from reality, by way of real-time computation.

S. Mann and C. Wyckoff, 1991 (wearcam.org/xr.htm)

XV Definition:

XV is a single-yet-distributed, unbounded universal persistent immsersive, and shared virtual + augmented + mediated (XR) intelligent environment.

XV combines XR (eXtended Reality), XI (eXtended Intelligence), XB (eXtended Being, including Digital Twin), XE (eXtended Economy), and XS (eXtended Society).

S. Mann and Y. Yuan, 2022

First consider the Physical Scale (Body) axis:
Environment versus invironment (technology that becomes part of us):

• Clothing analogy;
"Very funny, Scotty. Now beam me up my clothes."
-- Sean Keogh, Bottoms Up: A Cheeky Look At Life.

• Car or boat analogy.
"You hit me!"
Cyborgs existed > a million years ago

Next consider Informatic Scale (Control) axis:

Big data versus little data:

Centralized versus distributed ... Fiat currency versus blockchain...

Big danger versus little danger:

Danger due to individual action versus collective action at grand scale.

Finally, consider Social Scale (Ownership) axis:

Central. ownership v. distributed ownership:

Big watching versus little watching:

Surveillance versus sousveillance

Big danger versus little danger:

We need the right balance between surveillance and sousveillance.

Ownership of data by photographer...

Big ownership versus little ownership...

Fractal (self-similar) nature of XV:
Conclusion + Going Further, Next Steps:

Join us to invent XV; external collaborators:


• Yu Yuan;
• Moira Patterson;
• Azim Lila;
• Purva Rajkotia;