Herman Narula: The transformative power of video games
הרמן נרולה: הכוח הטרנספורמטיבי של משחקי וידאו
Herman Narula builds new technology for the online games and virtual worlds that will massively impact the way we live, socialize and entertain each other. Full bio
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by how the most important, impactful,
החשובים והמשפיעים ביותר,
to our culture and our society
are going to have that impact.
was just image-sharing in dorm rooms,
לשיתוף תמונות בחדרי המעונות,
or automated trading
מבוזר, או מסחר אוטומטי
in the world for automated trading,
the way that we operate.
במהירות את הדרך בה אנו פועלים.
can recall that moment
יכול להיזכר ברגע
like some ignorable, derisive thing,
the price of Bitcoin is what it is.
from my perspective,
to encounter that again.
in the way we live our lives,
making an income,
future inventions --
from video games.
in the audience.
are already becoming in our lives today,
הופכים כבר היום לחלק מהחיים שלנו,
of technological advancement
more of an inevitability.
are quite electrifying.
to think about scale.
2.6 billion people who play games.
than five years ago.
nothing has spread like that.
gain the infrastructure
the possibilities of gaming.
and this often shocks a lot of people --
מזעזע הרבה אנשים -
like, have a guess, think about it.
נסו לנחש, חישבו על זה.
for children anymore.
like literature or anything else
part of our lives.
who generally picked up gaming
שאנשים שבדרך כלל התחילו לשחק
that this medium is organized.
it's not just play anymore, right?
an income playing games.
in a competitive way.
modding games, building content in them,
באמצעות שינוי תוכנות משחקים ובניית תוכן
akin to the Florentine Renaissance,
לרנסנס הפלורנטיני,
in your living room.
is what's about to happen.
מה שעומד לקרות.
infinite worlds,
העצומים האלה,
for a very long time
במשך זמן ארוך מאוד
with as much trickery as possible.
תחבולות ככל שהיה ניתן .
if you'd let me geek out for a moment,
אם תרשו לי לסטות לרגע,
the visual effects,
האפקטים הוויזואליים,
the front end of games.
of a game world
get in a fight, fall in love.
להילחם, להתאהב.
all of those things after this,
כל הדברים האלה לאחר מכן,
would have consequence.
at the same time.
עם זה באותו זמן.
to what makes the real world real.
את העולם לאמיתי
between players or entities
mostly take place on a single server
בעיקר על שרת יחיד
is actually thousands of smaller worlds.
אלפי עולמות קטנים יותר.
about thousands of small concerts.
as was said earlier today,
to bring it all together.
really understand what that means.
you might see this, beautiful visuals,
אתם עשויים לראות אפקטים חזותיים יפים,
happening in front of you.
a little bit of information
of meaningful entities or objects.
או של אובייקטים משמעותיים,
"I've played in an infinite world."
on a treadmill.
of it that you're not in to vanish,
שאינכם נמצא בתוכם, להיעלם,
in front of you to appear.
for the revolution
in the beginning of this talk.
that are passionate gamers
שהם גיימרים נלהבים
that are afraid and may not be,
the technology is in place
that we've previously seen.
שראינו בעבר.
working on the problem --
where we can finally
of disparate machines
to not be one-offs,
those things that we can't yet fathom.
שעדיין איננו יכולים לתפוס.
to visualize that.
little simulations
קטנות אינדיבידואליות
of huge networks of interaction.
רשתות אינטראקציה ענקיות.
that can happen inside that.
שיוכלו להתרחש בתוך זה.
at that kind of scale.
some footage of some things
from some of our partners.
מבחינת כמה מהשותפים שלנו,
that not many people have seen before,
powered by this type of technology.
סוג זה של טכנולוגיה
to show you some of this stuff.
כמה מהדברים האלה.
people participating in a conflict.
is simulated in some way.
מדומה בדרך כלשהי.
of the biggest companies in the world,
הגדולות ביותר בעולם,
an assistant creative simulation
can cocreate together,
when you're done.
and have adventures.
pioneers in Berlin,
and they'll love me for saying that.
כשאני אומר את זה.
basically, an entire planet.
כוכב לכת שלם.
with millions of non-player characters
מיליוני אנשים שאינם שחקנים
the political ramifications
set of experiences,
in this technology.
tends to be all exponential,
where we can make
look like nothing.
the opportunities ...
to imagine what I'm talking about here.
על מה אני מדבר כאן.
or millions of people
to build or do something together
were less than optimal, shall we say.
to be spending our time doing.
כדי לבלות בעשייה.
that many people,
that can create ...
to think about what it means
experiences at scale
חוויות בקנה מידה גדול
a meaningful amount of our time,
כמות משמעותית של זמננו,
to be an individual.
the personality traits you were born with
to experiment differently with.
that wants to be more than one person.
יותר מאדם אחד.
the opportunity to flex that.
nothing in common with.
שום דבר במשותף.
and ends sometime in 1950.
ומסתיים מתישהו ב -1950.
is like 50 years later.
or by lack of context,
that bonds people in different ways.
has amplified our many differences,
העצימה את ההבדלים הרבים בינינו,
in the presence of other people.
בנוכחות אנשים אחרים.
shared opportunity.
at this moment in time,
on the opposite sides of a conflict,
together into a game
to change the way we look at things.
בה אנו מסתכלים על הדברים.
more cynical about all of this,
and games are your cup of tea.
ומשחקים הם ממש לטעמם.
of what I'm talking about
שעליו אני מדבר
have full-time jobs in gaming.
בגיימינג במשרה מלאה.
there will be a job.
that is creative and rich
no matter what country you're in,
באיזו מדינה אתם נמצאים,
you might think you have.
תחשבו שיש לכם.
most kids born today make
שנולדו היום, ירוויחו
החדש,
opportunity for an income
with almost a plea,
to face this new opportunity
עם ההזדמנות החדשה הזו
to some we have in the past.
for yet another technologist
technology will fix it."
this is going to have downsides.
with cynicism and derision,
צינית ומזלזלת,
yet another adjacent space.
how and who makes money from this.
about defining how we think,
על הגדרת האופן בו אנו חושבים,
around identity and collaboration,
is really to those engineers,
לאותם מהנדסים,
in the audience today.
שיושבים בקהל היום.
of working on space travel.
שקשורה למסעות בחלל.
you can build right here, right now,
יכולים לבנות ממש כאן, ממש עכשיו,
technological frontiers
when building the early internet.
בבניית האינטרנט המוקדם.
behind virtual worlds is different.
היא שונה.
בואו וניקח כולנו חלק בזה,
that we shape in a positive way,
שאנחנו מעצבים בצורה חיובית,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Herman Narula - Entrepreneur, coderHerman Narula builds new technology for the online games and virtual worlds that will massively impact the way we live, socialize and entertain each other.
Why you should listen
According to Herman Narula, "I have always been interested in how technology can enable creativity and solve tough problems, and I've always loved video games." With co-founder Rob Whitehead, "who shared my excitement ... [for] creating the next generation of games and virtual spaces," he founded Improbable, which created SpatialOS.
SpatialOS is a tool for developers and gaming studios like Midwinter Entertainment, Klang Games and NetEase Games to "add innovation to online games -- from short, team-based matches to huge, persistent shared environments. Our goal is to help build the complex, interactive and highly connected virtual worlds where billions of people will meet, play and find real meaning in the near future."
Herman Narula | Speaker | TED.com