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, [...]
In the US and Europe we’ve seen a lot of content starting out on the internet before migrating to TV or to new online delivery platforms - on your TiVO, PS3 or XBox360. Afterworld is an example of short content that is now showing on the Sci Fi channel but started on the internet, Sony [...]
The Thursday’s Fictions cross-media jamboree has been put into the Atom finals awards 2008 as Best Multimodal Production (other 3 entries below).
Award Recipients - Names: Richard James Allen, Gary Hayes, and Karen Pearlman
Award Recipients - Organisations: The Physical TV Company, AFTRS LAMP (The Australian Film Television and Radio School - The Laboratory for Advanced Media [...]
from news.com.au:
An American mother has been indicted in connection with a MySpace hoax that ended with a 13-year-old girl committing suicide after being spurned by a fictitious boy.
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted Lori Drew, 49, on criminal charges of conspiracy and accessing MySpace computers “without authorisation to inflict emotional distress on the [...]
The following clip you are about to see has a Ripley’s Believe it or Not feeling to it. Apparently its straight unedited footage taken from the CCTV of Raffles Place Tower building in Singapore.
It was posted on the internet a few weeks ago and like a piece of viral media, has completely overwhelmed the asian [...]
LonelyGirl15 actress Jessica Rose is making a comeback to the computer-screen with a new web series called Blood Cell,produced by digital studio 60Frames. This new series is not a faked vlog but a well-produced murder mystery. Part of the current onslaught of professionally produced web content with a hyper-syndication (the viral distribution of content through [...]
“There’s no question that all my synapses were firing in the virtual world and in real reality.” Margot Knight, alternate-reality game heroine
OK this is old news as far as Watercooler timescales are concerned, June 2007, slaps wrist. But as I have just stumbled across it, worth blogging about for reference, because not many have - [...]
