Crater Lake National Park: MIT OCW & Aging Reversal puppy pic ~ Seems highly improbably that aging reversal drugs could revert this newborn puppy to an embryonic form :) * * Be careful SPECULATIVELY re #AgingReversal drugs (re regulation) SIZE- & AGE-wise esp. Cells programmed in REVERSE (is one idea here) :) * * * Niantic's Pokemon Go and WUaS collaborations re WUaS Gaming and a single realistic virtual earth for Augmented Reality?

Dear John, Philo P., Priscilla, Samuel, Niantic Support, 

Thanks to Niantic Support for your contact information.

Here below is the email I sent to John yesterday. (Am glad too to have been able to see the Pokemon Go augmented reality feature working - it just kind of appeared - just after dark on a walk the night before last on my phone, and to have used this AR feature while walking yesterday late afternoon in situ with camera working in Google Street View I think - and I threw a Pokemon Go ball at a 'Dragon Air' Pokemon creature, and got something like a whopping 2400 points! Since I can't get into Pokemon Go in Bluestacks' emulator, I'm not using the App there, for your information re Pokemon Go's Terms of Service, but I may explore the Bluestacks' emulator in other Apps, such as "D&D Style Medieval Fantasy RPG" - Role Playing Games - and will hope that it doesn't appear as if I'm using Pokemon Go there; am interested in exploring Pokemon Go eventually on a larger screen, and such as in Bluestacks' emulator - and re Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth / creating or coding AR / Augmented Reality, and re some of the reasons below, for your information, as well. Thank you so much thus far for your Niantic Pokemon Go support).

Greetings from the SF Bay Area East Bay, and I hope this finds you very well.

I'm reaching out with an interest in creating a single #RealisticVirtualEarth for everything including especially with Augmented Reality (think Google Street View with Time Slider / Maps / Earth with TensorFlow and conceptually with group build-able Second Life and for avatar bots, but realistic, and as a 3D virtual world too) - with Pokemon Go, as class rooms and gaming opportunities and STEM field sites - eg Archaeological field sites re Street View, genealogy genetics, and archaeology - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1235357771744169985 - for example, for our CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch matriculating students and wiki Universitian volunteers - #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM?src=hashtag_click - and so esp. via Gaming esp #WUaSGaming https://twitter.com/search?q=%23WUaSGaming&src=typeahead_click.

The "Trainer" potential of enormous numbers of new Niantic Pokemon Go players is tremendous via WUaS, - and in all ~200 countries and all 7117 living languages even.

Here's a Pokemon Go group-created partial Syllabus from 2016 or so - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xYuozfkON-RVZQkr7d1qLPJrCRqN8TkzeDySM-3pzeA/edit?usp=sharing (accessible too from this blog eg https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/03/pirongia-forest-park.html) - which Harvard Prof of Education Karen Brennan (with MIT Media Lab PhD) was also involved with. 

World Univ & Sch is planned in each of all ~200 countries and in their official and main languages for free-to-students' CC-4 MIT OCW-centric degrees, - and in all 7,117 known living languages as wiki schools for open teaching and learning too. In doing so, WUaS is seeking to create AR & VR coding opportunities, gaming opportunities, and modeling of the earth opportunities, as well, for our students (as they study for free Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD & IB high school degrees) and thus also become potential Pokemon Go players & developers - if this would be helpful to Niantic Pokemon Go. The potential is enormous.

Appreciating how much Google Geo experience you have re "Hanke previously led Google's Geo division, which included Google Earth, Google Maps, Local, StreetView, SketchUp, and Panoramio" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hanke - especially in these regards. 
Although World Univ & Sch is tiny, WUaS is in regular communication with Google's Head of AI, Peter Norvig, about some of these questions as well as MIT as well. 

How might we best communicate further about all of this?

Thank you.

All the best, Scott
worlduniversityandschool.org
scottmacleod.com

https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click

A #RealisticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs is part of this realistic virtual earth planning, and here's a UC Berkeley Anthropology talk I gave in December 2020 about developing this -
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1348465226400731137?s=20
Welcome back to this sacred land and water
https://harbin.org
Beautiful Red heart pics~Also in a #RealisticVirtualHarbin for #VirtualSoaking in #WUaSdigitalGlasses http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/doubledays-hummingbird-cynanthus.html?m=0 12 18 2020 Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth Harbin for Tourism ~
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rjAgHoN1uE4JcuGPiVnvDibpA0Fd4StA/view~


How best to incorporate Pokemon Go gaming into this regarding building out Pokemon Go Augmented Reality and related goals of yours is part of this - and is very Google Maps' centric as well. I think the potential to attract new Pokemon Go players with a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs could be enormous too.


And congratulations on the following, and just now I heard Satya Nadella and the Stanford Chair of the Board regarding your exciting announcement below - https://youtu.be/seF-ULjPuU4 (which should be available in coming days) - and in what way would there be collaboration possibilities in these regards too? -

"Thrilled to announce our collaboration with @Microsoft @hololens to enable even more planet-scale experiences for next-generation AR hardware. We share a common vision for how technology can facilitate deeper social connection, no matter where you are in the world."

https://twitter.com/johnhanke/status/1366804166287519745?s=20


The Chair of the World University and School Board, as well as the WUaS Corporation (2 separate legal entities) is Larry Viehland, a MIT Alumnus from 1969 and a professor of ionic chemistry. It might be helpful too to bring him into this conversation if at all possible as well; his email is viehland@chatham.edu.


Thank you, John, and looking forward to further communication about this in the not too distant future.

Best regards, Scott

John and All, 

Some further related questions regarding my reaching out to you at Pokemon Go here. Much of the above could be focused on how to further grow Pokemon Go in ways you see ahead, as well as regarding further developing Actual-Virtual developments in Google Street View with time slider with Augmented Reality and re - https://twitter.com/hashtag/ActualVirtual?src=hashtag_click. Pokemon Go excels at facilitating developing actual-virtual relationships, with its Street View focus. How too to explore this further?