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My friend Michael Naimark is exploring new ideas for virtual reality experiences, in collaboration with Google and other researchers. To discuss this work, we got together with two other colleagues, Steve Gano and Jim McKee -- with whom we worked at the Apple Multimedia Lab in the eighties, pushing the envelope on related questions.
We started with a tour of the historic Sentinel Building in North Beach, home of American Zoetrope -- where Francis Coppola worked on many cinematic masterpieces like The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. We checked out the underground screening room and sound mixing room where some of that work took place, then headed upstairs to Michael and Jim’s studios, for a wonderful conversation about the new VR frontier.
Michael and his colleagues are researching how people are represented in virtual reality. Their first experiment at Google’s “Big Chairs” Park led to some helpful guidelines on how to film people for VR, by using different camera angles and distances.
They’re also investigating ‘hyper-images’ that resemble a group of people, but that are shot at different times and composited together to create both ‘credible’ and ‘incredible’ pictures. To enable more experiments like these, Michael is developing ‘IMU VR’, a new type of camera that could make it easier for communities to tell their stories in VR. More on this later.
It was great to reconnect with my colleagues and brainstorm these ideas together. It felt like the good old days, and the creative juices were flowing all over again ...
Learn more about Michael Naimark’s work:
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Me and my boo... we had just left Da Vinci's Gardens after dancing there all night in their pavillions... and headed to Dance Island to cap the evening.
We are in this mad world of SL craziness, and yet, we found each other here. Both of us west coast USA and so close we could have lunch together in RL!
Where it will take us... no one knows... but I know that I will cherish every moment with this man... he has brought me such joy and happiness!
Photo giving an impression of the "Virtual Globe" at the Ars Electronica Center Linz, Austria.
Credit: Martin Hieslmair
Virtual offices in Gurgaon give you the flexibility to work from different locations at different time according to your needs. Having a virtual office address in Gurgaon is now easier and affordable as compared to renting a physical office space.
I had a nice lunch with Kristina Woolsey, with whom I worked at the Apple Multimedia Lab in the eighties, to compare notes about education and multimedia technologies.
Her daughter Erika joined us afterwards, and showed us 3D, interactive views of her underwater expeditions, using a Google Cardboard viewer powered by her smartphone.
This was a great, convivial use of virtual reality technology, which made me reconsider my concerns about VR as a tool that could isolate users. But in this real life context, it felt very natural to use that tool for quick 3D immersions that augmented our conversation.
It was great to reconnect with Kristina and brainstorm ideas together. It felt like the good old days ...
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Children's Librarian Julie McCasland reads What This Story Needs Is a Pig in a Wig by Emma Virjan during Los Angeles County Library Virtual Storytime at the Baldwin Park Library, April 23, 2020. Unforeseen library closures due to the Coronavirus pandemic has inspired the library to do Virtual Storytime on Facebook and Instagram. The first week it had 2,500 views on Facebook, and numbers continue to grow as families follow the Safer at Home Order. (Photo Credit: Los Angeles County)
En Biodiversidad virtual y también en Instagram como @proyectoagua.
Anclados a la nada, con el mayor desapego, los hilos de Hyalotheca se dejan llevar para ser todo. Alegran así a trazos de verde las aguas calmadas y frías de cualquier turbera. Fustes de columnas tumbadas, collarcitos de esmeraldas que serpentean y desgranan. Sus cuentas ruedan sin prisa en las gotas, todas ellas enfundadas en su halo, abrigo de gelatina en invierno, piel invisible en verano.
Parece que Hyalotheca está hecha para todo, alga para la sequía y para el agua, para el hielo y el estío, para montañas y hondonadas, para una vida tranquila o viajera, y siempre siempre para la luz.
Quizá el principal logro para poder vivir de tantas maneras diferentes sea la caja blanda y transparente que le da el nombre y sostiene su vida, Hyalotheca , “estuche hialino”, una gruesa envuelta gelatinosa invisible a nuestros ojos cuando se observa al microscopio óptico con las técnicas de iluminación convencional, pero que se deja ver con absoluta nitidez si se observa a través de esta ventana mágica empleando técnicas como las de contraste de fase o interferencia.
La gruesa cubierta gelatinosa de Hyalotheca es como la misma capa del “hombre invisible", a ella la protege de todo, aun dándole visibilidad.
Hyalotheca dissiliens es una especie que sobrevive a las carreras y los saltos, a los torbellinos y las sequías de estas montañas azotadas por el viento y arropadas por la nieve, abrasadas por el sol y labradas por el agua y por el tiempo, así deja su huella de vida en pequeños trazos rectos bajo una fina lámina de agua. Filamentos cortos de alga colonial en el que poco a poco sus individuos se desgranan mientras van sembrando el agua de vida.
En su estrategia para sobrevivir Hyalotheca no se separa de sus hermanas gemelas y forma colonias de tallitos alineados en las que, ensambladas una tras otra todas ganan, aunque cada una de ellas viva su propia vida. Así, unidas, tienen más fácil poder flotar y acercarse a la superficie de las aguas para tomar la luz del Sol.
La gruesa envuelta gelatinosa y transparente además de protegerla de los depredadores, evita su desecación y favorece su dispersión al quedarse adherida con mucha facilidad al plumaje o el pelo de los animales que visitan las lagunas, charcas y lagos en los que habita.
Las células de Hyalotheca tienen forma de ancho anillo y en el interior de cada una de ellas los cloroplastos, desde el centro, como si fueran unas aspas de molino forman nueve láminas radiales como nueve alas radios de una rueda que como la vida rueda o va a saltos, y así, en cualquier giro del filamento de la colonia siempre tendrán extendidas las alas hacia el Sol, por eso, cuando se observa cada una de las células desde arriba se dibuja una estrella.
El género Hyalotheca está representado por once especies, la mayoría de ellas, como ésta, Hyalotheca dissiliens , de distribución cosmopolita. Hoy Hyalotheca deja sus trazos de vida junto al bosque de nieblas y los días de afilado sol
Hyalotheca vive en las turberas de Peña Yerre entre los esfagnos y la vegetación acuática que ahora duerme, como duerme el desnudo bosque de abedules que la arropa. Las fotografías tomadas en vivo con las técnicas de contraste de interferencia, contraste de fase, campo oscuro y epifluorescencia a 200 y 400 aumentos proceden de unas muestras recogidas el 24 de enero de 2025 en las faldas de la Sierra Cebollera en unas turberas junto a Lumbreras, que son un tesoro de biodiversidad
Here is my virtual tour through the city - portfotolio.net/jup3nep/album/72157631887823501
The Hippodrome of Constantinople (Turkish: Sultanahmet Meydanı, At Meydanı, Turkish pronunciation: [sulˌtanahˈmet]) was a circus that was the sporting and social centre of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire. Today it is a square named Sultanahmet Meydanı (Sultan Ahmet Square) in the Turkish city of Istanbul, with a few fragments of the original structure surviving. It is sometimes also called Atmeydanı (Horse Square) in Turkish.
The word hippodrome comes from the Greek hippos ('ιππος), horse, and dromos (δρομος), path or way. Horse racing and chariot racing were popular pastimes in the ancient world and hippodromes were common features of Greek cities in the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine eras.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippodrome_of_Constantinople
Istanbul (Turkish: İstanbul) is the largest city in Turkey, constituting the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. With a population of 13.5 million, the city forms one of the largest urban agglomerations in Europe[d] and is among the largest cities in the world by population within city limits. Istanbul's vast area of 5,343 square kilometers (2,063 sq mi) is coterminous with Istanbul Province, of which the city is the administrative capital. Istanbul is a transcontinental city, straddling the Bosphorus—one of the world's busiest waterways—in northwestern Turkey, between the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. Its commercial and historical center lies in Europe, while a third of its population lives in Asia.
Founded on the Sarayburnu promontory around 660 BC as Byzantium, the city now known as Istanbul developed to become one of the most significant cities in history. For nearly sixteen centuries following its reestablishment as Constantinople in 330 AD, it served as the capital of four empires: the Roman Empire (330–395), the Byzantine Empire (395–1204 and 1261–1453), the Latin Empire (1204–1261), and the Ottoman Empire (1453–1922). It was instrumental in the advancement of Christianity during Roman and Byzantine times, before the Ottomans conquered the city in 1453 and transformed it into an Islamic stronghold and the seat of the last caliphate. Although the Republic of Turkey established its capital in Ankara, palaces and imperial mosques still line Istanbul's hills as visible reminders of the city's previous central role.
Istanbul's strategic position along the historic Silk Road, rail networks to Europe and the Middle East, and the only sea route between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean have helped foster an eclectic populace, although less so since the establishment of the Republic in 1923. Overlooked for the new capital during the interwar period, the city has since regained much of its prominence. The population of the city has increased tenfold since the 1950s, as migrants from across Anatolia have flocked to the metropolis and city limits have expanded to accommodate them. Arts festivals were established at the end of the 20th century, while infrastructure improvements have produced a complex transportation network.
Seven million foreign visitors arrived in Istanbul in 2010, when it was named a European Capital of Culture, making the city the world's tenth-most-popular tourist destination. The city's biggest draw remains its historic center, partially listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, but its cultural and entertainment hub can be found across the city's natural harbor, the Golden Horn, in the Beyoğlu district. Considered a global city, Istanbul hosts the headquarters of many Turkish companies and media outlets and accounts for more than a quarter of the country's gross domestic product. Hoping to capitalize on its revitalization and rapid expansion, Istanbul is currently bidding for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Fascinating session at Dubit in Leeds yesterday on Virtual Worlds, which ended with a focus group using avatar-based IM. Great responses from the kids and nifty to use virtual world technology to talk virtual world consumption!
28 Marzo 19 Aprile
Deadline 19 Aprile
www.museodelmetaverso.it/profiles/blogs/virtual-diversity...
www.koinup.com/group/Virtual-Diversity/
Koinup.com promuove il contest "Diversità Virtuale" (http://www.koinup.com/group/Virtual-Diversity/) , al quale museodelmetaverso.it collabora, assecondando una tradizione che ha visto spesso collegato MdM alle iniziative del social network fotografico sui mondi virtuali, fondato da Pieluigi Casolari.
In questa occasione c'è un altro partner a tenerci compagnia: mondivirtuali.it, il sito web di Luca Spoldi, dove si offrono ai lettori numerose notizie, spunti e curiosità sui mondi virtuali, nonché una disamina sul loro stato di salute.
Il contest "Virtual Diversity si fonda sul concetto che "Il Metaverso è un ecosistema basato sulla diversità virtuale. Tutti gli avatar sono unici, perché ci sono sempre persone reali dietro i pupazzi. In Virtual diversity Contest l'obiettivo è quello di dimostrare la singolarità dei diversi avatar; sia che essi abbiano un aspetto aderente alla realtà o siano soltanto personaggi di fantasia, furries o in stile manga, l'avatar è sempre uno specchio della nostra personalità."
Al contest possono partecipare, con una sola immagine che rappresenti un avatar (potrà essere un autoritratto o il ritratto di un altro avatar), tutti gli iscritti a Koinup.com, proponendo avatar tratti da qualsiasi mondo virtuale.
Sarà anche possibile rimuovere una immagine e sostituirla con una nuova purché nel periodo dal 28 marzo al 19 aprile, data di chiusura del contest.
Ulteriori informazioni le trovate qui: www.koinup.com/group/Virtual-Diversity/discuss/rules-of-t....
Il vincitore, che verrà intervistato su Mondivirtuali.it/SLnn.it, sarà annunciato il prossimo 26 aprile dopo essere stato selezionato da una giuria composta da Pierluigi Casolari (co-fondatore e Ceo di Koinup.com), dal sottoscritto e da Roxelo Babenco (aka Rosanna Galvani), fondatrice e proprietaria di Museo del Metaverso (http://www.museodelmetaverso.it), nella cui galleria digitale verranno esposti i 15 migliori finalisti. A me non resta dunque che invitarvi a partecipare numerosi coi vostri migliori ritratti di avatar! E buona fortuna a tutti.
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Koinup.com promote Virtual Diversity contest - 28 March 19 Avril
Deadline 19 Avril
The winner will be announced on 26th of april
The Metaverse is an ecosystem based on virtual diversity. All the avatars are unique, because there are always real persons behind the puppets. The Virtual Diversity Contest's goal is to showoff the countless biodiversity of avatars. From realistic to fantasy, to furries and manga like characters, The Avatar is always a mirror of our personality.
RULES OF THE CONTEST
1.The participants can submit only a picture
2. The submission must represent an avatar (it could be a self-portrait or a portrait of friend)
3. All the virtual worlds avatars can be displayed in the pictures
Submission Time
1. The Submission time will go from 28th of march to 19th of april
2. The runners-up and winner will be announced on 26th of april
All the entries will be judged by a pool of judges made up by Pierluigi Casolari founder and owner of the Koinup.com, Luca Spoldi, journalist and author of the magazine: Mondi Virtuali and Roxelo Babenco, owner and founder of the Metaverse Art Organization: Museo del Metaverso
A pool of "15" Runners-up Submissions will be selected for a special exhibition at the Museo del Metaverso Gallery (the dates of the exhibition are not yet scheduled, they will be announced asap)
The absolute winner - along with the exhibition - will be featured in a special editorial on the magazine Mondi Virtuali (the editorial will include a special interview).
Read More About the Rules and About the Prizes
Bryn Mooser ’01, co-founder and CEO of Huff Post-RYOT shares the latest storytelling examples of virtual reality and augmented reality to enact social change, moderated by media faculty member Erika Mijlin.
Photos by Briee Della Rocca
Rhetoric classes are the first to make use of the Google Cardboard virtual reality viewers purchased by the Digital Media Center with a CVEF Give Grant.
www.msvirtualservices.com/ - Virtual Offices core focus is on telephone answering services, virtual office services and virtual receptionist services at Liverpool, Manchester, Morstar. Virtual Offices offer communication services that include a remote receptionist, phone answering services and a virtual assistant.
This is a lighting board that does some really amazing things, this one is designed for concerts and when I learned it it so reminded me of light boards for theare I've worked in physical life.
Hello everyone, wanted to share my experience with Virtual Staging and an opportunity for you to make more $$ from your work. Check out some examples from recent home I did. Total was 9 Rooms at a total invoice price of $600. Saved the agent about $2000 and did it in a day.
I promised myself no more virtual sketches, but the invitation came up for Amsterdam and I couldn't help myself. Amsterdam is one of my favorite cities anywhere, and it made me so sad to be "visiting" online, rather than in person. :(
Learn about the Apalachee foods for all seasons in this week's quest!
See the video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwgBXZbSSDE&feature=youtu.be
Enjoy activities like a deciphering game at:
missionsanluis.org/media/1748/virtual-summer-camp-2020_qu...
Deep Down’s Virtual Mine project is an immersive, interactive, and educational 3D experience located in the virtual world of Second Life.
Created by Sand Castle Studios
For more information -
Using the Virtual World to Explore the Real World Problems of Fossil Fuels
After claiming it was a piece of crap I forced Katie to actually play with a Virtual Boy. Despite the awkward sitting position, that fact you look like a special playing one &; your brain starts to melt after 10 mins of play they are actually pretty fun. If you can track one down give it a go.
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28 April 2022, Rome, Italy - Virtual Event Nizami Ganjavi International Center (NGIC) Board of Trustees. (Composite picture from L): Ismail Seragelding; Ismahane Elouafi, FAO Chief Scientist; FAO Director-General QU Dongyu; Vara Vike Freiberga, Former Latvia President; Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, Former President of Croatia; Maria Espinosa President of the United Nations General Assembly ; Ameena Gurib-Fakim, Former President, Mauritius; Petre Roman, Former Prime Minister of Romania; Katherine Yuschchenko, Former First Lady of Ukraine; Ambassador Susan Elliott; Zlatko Lagumdzija, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Ambassador Robert Cekuta.
I thought it'd be fun to see a snapshot of everything we accomplished!
1. SNTM~ Lisa's blocks, 2. Princess & the Pea Quilt - FINISHED, 3. Sew New to Me VQB--July, 4. Sew New to Me VQB - block from *Gretchen891*, 5. Mermaid Quilt, 6. Hazel & quilt, 7. Princess & the Pea Quilt - FINISHED, 8. SNTM VQB May, 9. SNTM Kim's block, 10. SNTM VQB - For Lisa - August, 11. map of the states, 12. 07-16-10, 13. Blocks from Lpinette, 14. SNTM VQB September for Kelly, 15. Seaside States Top, 16. Mary's House Block, 17. block for Kim, 18. Sew New to Me VQB quilt block for Little Miss Shabby, 19. SNTM VQBee Block for Lisa - bird on branch, 20. SNTM VQBee Quilt - Two Tone Baby Quilt, 21. Sew New to Me VQB - Oct for Lisa, 22. Sew New To Me VQB--June, 23. Sew New To Me VQB Quilt Top Finished, 24. princess in the pea block~ for heather!, 25. mendocino block for kim!, 26. SNTM VQBee Block for Gretchen - abstract beach block, 27. Orange Block for Cristin, 28. Front - "Sew New to Me" vqb Quilt DONE!, 29. Sew New To Me Virtual Quilting Bee * Lisa *, 30. Sew New To Me Virtual Quilting Bee * Jessica *, 31. Sew New To Me Virtual Quilting Bee * Kelly *, 32. Bee Block for Katie - Sew New to Me VQB, 33. Sew New To Me Virtual Quilting Bee November Block, 34. Sew New to Me blocks for Lisa, 35. SNTM VQB July, 36. Sew New to Me top done- Neighborhood in the sky
Chelford Island is a lovely sim where the pastoral is blended organically with the industrial. An old commercial farming operation long disused, in the process of being reclaimed. Unfortunately, the creator of this wonderful place has passed away and the sim will be removed from the grid by the end of the month.
My friend Michael Naimark is exploring new ideas for virtual reality experiences, in collaboration with Google and other researchers. To discuss this work, we got together with two other colleagues, Steve Gano and Jim McKee -- with whom we worked at the Apple Multimedia Lab in the eighties, pushing the envelope on related questions.
We started with a tour of the historic Sentinel Building in North Beach, home of American Zoetrope -- where Francis Coppola worked on many cinematic masterpieces like The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. We checked out the underground screening room and sound mixing room where some of that work took place, then headed upstairs to Michael and Jim’s studios, for a wonderful conversation about the new VR frontier.
Michael and his colleagues are researching how people are represented in virtual reality. Their first experiment at Google’s “Big Chairs” Park led to some helpful guidelines on how to film people for VR, by using different camera angles and distances.
They’re also investigating ‘hyper-images’ that resemble a group of people, but that are shot at different times and composited together to create both ‘credible’ and ‘incredible’ pictures. To enable more experiments like these, Michael is developing ‘IMU VR’, a new type of camera that could make it easier for communities to tell their stories in VR. More on this later.
It was great to reconnect with my colleagues and brainstorm these ideas together. It felt like the good old days, and the creative juices were flowing all over again ...
Learn more about Michael Naimark’s work:
View more photos about Virtual Reality:
Anxious Weekend
4 to 6 December 2020
50 to 100L$
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