We have come a long way since cardboard cutout VRML back in the 90s. It is interesting to watch a revolution take place at the moment in Mixed Reality and one particular subset, augmented reality. I produced a compilation of various activities in a short video at the bottom of this post but before that, [...]
AFTRS is running two new cool Graduate Diploma courses starting in Feb 2009 in Virtual Worlds and Games Design and we have had a few open days at the new building at the Fox Entertainment Quarter to excite and inform. For the last one we did a fun, little experiment and composited (green screened) visitors [...]
… and we are all encouraged to be a part of the demise of mankind for a few months starting on October 6th. I suggest you join the facebook group which will keep you up to date with events. Feed your experiences into your blog/s, find wiki’s tracking events then contribute and of course post [...]
Griefing in WoW - image from thegrief.org
An article by Christian Nutt posted on both Gamasutra and Worlds in Motion covers a discussion at AGDC between MMO community managers and psychologists on unpleasant behavior in MMO environments, the why’s, wherefore’s and possible solutions.
Now I’m a psychology student (so I’m probably coming at this from the wrong [...]
To show how Social 3D Worlds are permeating the real world the first ever Congressional hearing on Virtual Worlds was run in April of this year. The then CEO of Linden Lab (Second Life) Philip Rosedale, testified before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, basically telling them about the likely ‘influence’ that 3D [...]
I was reading on Tubefilter News about the new ARG web series “Do You Believe Me?” that has just scored distribution with I-Rights, of the Digital Rights Group, when I saw a comment about an ARG from 2005 - Perplex City and followed the link.
Why oh why do I always hear about these things after [...]
A hat tip to Dan Taylor over at BBC for pointing out this lovely little viral that allows you the passive, sit-on-the-couch-and-munch-crisps viewer (well fiddle with laptop) to be the star of Spooks. FaceSpook is a personalized video tool where your face is mapped onto a character in an action scene - and all via [...]
