There has been lots of excitement about Second Life becoming a more ‘evocative’ engine (visually speaking) for at least 18 months with lots of posts and short demo videos.
Recently the Illclan’ers (who appeared in our machinima seminar) posted an item suggesting we are quite close to having an official Linden Lab release here, Dynamic [...]
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 [...]
Do Avatars Dream of Human Sleep? Choreographed by Richard James Allen
In “Do Avatars Dream of Human Sleep?” a busy dancing man takes a nap in two realities. His live self dreams and his avatar self dreams. Neither reality is quite so simple when they wake.
Second Life is an online virtual world, where you can move [...]
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 haven’t been able to log into Sony’s PS3 home yet but have been fascinated in the trickle of videos onto YouTube showing first usage in the past two days. There are many posts over the last 2 years about PS3Home on my personalizemedia blog and it is great to finally see it come out [...]
From Gary’s original post on personalizemedia.
Interesting times ahead – the Console space finally collides with the Social Virtual World space as Sony and Microsoft race to be first to offer non-closed beta, ’social (read: commercial) virtual world’ front ends to their ‘trojan horse’ consoles. Will they start to reap the benefits of a very large [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I am tracking approximately one major virtual world service/company appearing every two to three weeks at the moment. The latest kid on the block launching later this year is ‘Next Island‘ – “Live Your Fantasies in a Virtual World”. It is basically a social virtual world front end/element to one of the first SVWs, Entropia. [...]
One of many presentations I do but this might be of interest to Watercooler’s – yes all five of you! A talk at Sydney’s ACP (Australian Centre of Photography) about the good ole metaverse featuring Gary and also a project that started in LAMP called What If Shakespeare, from a lab in November last year. [...]
Interesting enterprise development from California based, Electric Sheep Company (notable for doing branded developments across virtual worlds like There.com and Second Life) as well as cross-over, mixed reality gigs like the CSI-virtual world mash-up last year. They have developed Webflock, a easy to implement solution for any company/organisation to brand and deploy, as if any [...]
Seems you can’t turn your back on Social Virtual World development nowadays. A couple of weeks after I put out this video which covers ‘most’ of the major players along comes Multiverse Places. I suspect that the slow take up of multiverse engine as a ‘tool’ needed a little Linden pzzazz to get things moving. [...]
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 [...]
Interesting little vignette below featuring Dr. Lisa Dethridge (RMIT lecturer and an ex LAMP participant for an SLCN.tv-like LAMP project called InWorld) with the presenter of ABC’s community focused TV show ‘Can We Help?’. The short video has several clips of ABC Island built by a Gary Hazlitt (whoever he is) and in an earlier [...]
