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Dizzyingly Into The World Of Virtual Reality

John Elkington · 12 October 2016 · Leave a Comment

Dramatist Stephen Poliakoff tries the VR goggles
Dramatist Stephen Poliakoff tries the VR goggles
Next, Sir John Chapple
Next, (Field Marshal) Sir John Chapple
Ingvild and Jacqueline in cab across to Innovation Arts
Ingvild and Jacqueline in cab across to Innovation Arts
David Christie of Innovation Arts
David Christie of Innovation Arts

Across to Kleinwort Benson’s offices in St George Street W1 this morning, for a meeting of the WWF Council of Ambassadors. It kicked off with a sampling of a new virtual reality system WWF plans to use in fund-raising.

Stunningly persuasive conjuring of an alternate reality, a forest with birds flitting and lizards scurrying by, but I felt slightly dizzy for 30 minutes afterwards. Probably my vertigo problem again.

Felt even groggier after several presentations on the data from the next Living Planet Index work – we’re going to Hell in a hand basket, it sometimes seems.

Then back to 2 Bloomsbury Place for a session with Ingvild Sørensen of the UN Global Compact, before we all decamped for an Innovation Arts session, building towards the Breakthrough Symposium we’re planning for Cambridge in November. Then on to UBS, but that can be the subject of a separate entry.

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I began this blog with an entry reporting on a visit to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, on 30 September 2003. The blog element of the website has gone through several iterations since, with much of the older material still available.

Like so many things in my life, blog entries blur the boundaries between the personal and the professional. As explained on this site’s Home Page, the website and the blog are part platform for ongoing projects, part autobiography, and part accountability mechanism.

In addition, my blogs have appeared on many sites such as: Chinadialogue, CSRWire, Fast Company, GreenBiz, Guardian Sustainable Business, and the Harvard Business Review.

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John Elkington is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development. He is currently Founding Partner and Executive Chairman of Volans, a future-focused business working at the intersection of the sustainability, entrepreneurship and innovation movements.

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