I remember having long conversations with colleagues at the BBC in the mid 90s about automatic script-to-edit and how the ‘words’ themselves would eventually control the whole post production process. I have been following XtraNormal for a few months now as part of my ’storyboard, machinima mix” and great to see it is finally in [...]

To start with an incredible mash-up of musical fragments scattered across YouTube. This is the first of a series of seven that Israeli muso/video expert Kutiman (YouTube name) has pieced together. Some of the videos have 1/4 million views in 3 days and rightly so. Second most viewed video embedded at the bottom.

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A whole new meaning to ‘going down the rabbit hole’…
We have been looking at Artificial Intelligence at AFTRS LAMP for many years now across a range of projects and always looking for ways to go beyond the problems of filling up a big backend database with thousands of likely responses for the NPC or Bot [...]

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, [...]

On Saturday November 1st the inaugural GameJam event at AFTRS in Sydney was unleashed upon the Entertainment Quarter.  Sydneysiders and interstate guests each passionate about game design, playing games, virtual spaces… the list goes on, gathered to present and watch presentations, to learn about pitching ideas and for just a general all around good time.
Thanks [...]

In Sydney Thurs eve, fed up of late night shopping? Hopefully you will come along and argue the case for the web is not a creative space? Or perhaps that there is something more fundamental happening?
DebateIT: All the web’s a stage!
Join us as we debate whether the internet is helping unleash creativity. What opportunities are [...]

Football Superstars is the world’s first Virtual Football World. An entire online virtual world designed by football fans exclusively for football fans, where you can enjoy a massively multiplayer experience on your PC.
A service that I have been keeping an eye on because of it’s skill in combining passionate sporting fan behaviour with sticky gaming [...]

The Obama campaign has made strong use of the internet for fundraising, organising and spreading the message. The campaign has gone to a new level with the release of in-game advertising as illustrated in this screen-shot published on Gigaom recently.

TED talks just keeps ‘em coming. In the latest raft of talks from TED game designer Dave Perry talks about the history of video games, the future of the medium and speculates about when a videogame will make him cry. This talk has great visuals which map out the evolution of games over time reflecting [...]

There have been a few TV shows that have offered new and immersive experiences into collaborative virtual worlds notably MTV with Laguna Beach, The Hills, Pimp My Ride and others into There.com as well as CSI and BigBrother (that I wrote about 2 years ago) into Second Life – and lots more. The latest entrant [...]

Congratulations to LAMP mentor and friend of AFTRS Andrew Apostola who was announced as one of the winners of the British Council’s Realise Your Dream scheme. Andrew has spoke at many LAMP seminars and events and has worked as a mentor on a number of LAMP residential workshops. His dream is to become Australia’s leading [...]

We appreciate as many innovation initiatives in Australia as possible versus any sense that they are in competition with each other or even worse that they ‘own’ the area – ok rant over. We posted about Crossover in February a week ago and now the AIMIA Innovatives. Both are examples of those who are doing [...]

I have the DVDs of this wonderful combination of music, Computer Graphics and imagination. It is great to see these popping up over Social Video sites as they are a fascinating example of how taking two often disparate ideas can be combined to make something much more than the sum of its parts. You can [...]

Found this great demo of a ’semantically’ rich plug-in for Firefox which really suggest where we are headed when things ‘link’ together in a much more ‘human’ way. Enjoy.
Yes you can try it now, get the plug-in from this post…and a great get started tutorial from the Mozilla team.

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on [...]