David's Wiki

Welcome to my wiki - a public scratchpad for all my various projects and interests. TauNoyen is the name I used for my software publishing way back in the 80s, so thought I might resurrect it for my new ventures.

This is a wiki to support various personal projects.

• My PhD - Wargaming Urban Conflict
• http://themetaverseseries.info/ - home page/blog for The Metaverse Series of books
• https://virtualhumansbook.blogspot.com/ - old home page/blog for the Virtual Humans book

• Space Related Projects
• Virtual Human and Chatbot Work and Research
• Immersive 3D Data Visualisation Work and Research
• Virtual Reality and Virtual Worlds Work and Research - including The Metaverse Series for publisher Taylor & Francis.
• GDW Traveller RPG related work and activities
• Wargaming projects
• Tau Noyen Publications - my planned imprint for SFRPG and probably historical wargaming publications too
• WebXR Playground
• Headcrash - micro fan-site for a BBC Radios 1 and 3 SF Drama by Michael Wall, and starring Toyah Wilcox (and even including comments from her about it!)
• Flipside of Dominick Hide - micro fan-site for this stunning BBC Play for Today SF drama
• Other Things I Don't Want to Forget About
• Family related stuff
• And a little more About Me.

Here are other sites on the Net related to me:

• http://www.daden.co.uk - my company specialising in immersive 3D, VR and conversational AI
• Converj - my blog, mainly wargaming but some other stuff too
• ResearchGate - best place to get my academic papers
• Academia.edu - may have names of papers not on ResearchGate
• Medium - where I tend to post long form pieces on tech
• Substack - where I've started posting long form pieces on wargaming and urban operations - typically to try out ideas for later academic papers
• I'm on Twitter at @davidburden for tech stuff and @UrbanWargamer for wargaming and urban stuff.
• https://twitter.com/1945Scrapbook - During the last months of WW2 when my mum was 8 she and her mum kept a scrapbook of daily news cuttings. I posted them in real-time to Twitter during the 65th Anniversary of the war, but since everyone was in lock-down nobody noticed! Nice to have the scrapbook safely on line though.

My more recent books/chapters:

• Maggi and I are co-editors for The Metaverse Series from Taylor & Francis, the first two books which we co-wrote were published in September 2024, The Metaverse: A Critical Introduction and The Metaverse for Learning and Education, and there are more books to come from other authors in 2025 and 2026, and maybe beyond.
• I have a chapter on the wargames of the Battle of Hue in the book Urban Operations, published in 2024.
• My book on Virtual Humans came out in 2019, from Taylor & Francis
• I have a chapter on Digital Immortality in another book by my co-author Maggi Savin-Baden - Digital Afterlife
• A recent project with MOD led to an eBook on Pedagogy for Virtual Reality Training and Education - which is now available as a free download

My Halo virtual human is named for Halo Jones, and nothing to do with the computer game!