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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 ...
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I danced in front of my webcam. This time the online dance by Bellingham's Presence Studio. A bit different from dancing on that gymnasium like floor, at Presence; before the virus shut down things like dance floors.
Later I created my own Zoom Conference of one person to take this photo. I had lights flickering in that old bike wheel; a memento that's rolled across USA.
I'm holding a camera here, but during the dance, I was just dancing. For the dance, the screen was divided up into 18 squares each with a different home dance in it. Some dancers were outside. Others in the living room and so forth. I think there were 2 screens full of 18, or so, dancers.
A good innovation, but not quite like being immersed in the experience. It's more limited on the screen. Maybe someday, full immersion technology.
My studio apartment felt limiting as well. The thought of putting my webcam into the long hallway, outside my apartment came to mind. Dance, or run, up and down the hallway. Maybe I could invite my neighbors, but would that be proper social distancing?
We need to innovate until get a vaccine, or some other kind of cure, besides bleach (don't laugh, it can be used outside the body, like disinfecting the shower). Dancing may come back, but with a lot of spacing between people. I'm okay with that, I'm very visual and not that touch oriented anyway. I'm also far sighted so I can see people fine; from 20 feet or more.
In spite of cities cancelling their park dances and things like the Pride Festival most likely cancelled, outdoor dancing could be a way to maintain spacing. Just learn new ways to dance. Moving feels good and there is still the visual appeal.
Indoor dancing can work also. Crowded bar spaces might have to wait till a better cure, but smaller groups of folks who remain well spaced can work.
I have enjoyed the excitement of a crowded dance floor, but that may have to remain on hold; for a while. There are a few times when I felt like I was in people's way; when dance floors got really crowded with couples and groups (some folks would say cliques). Most dancers have been friendly tho, either ignoring me or interacting. I sometimes have gone with a friend and we did get quite a few hi fives. I miss those experiences. Maybe a way can be found to bring that back.
Dancing with greater spacing does take some getting used to. There's the economics of it as well. Smaller crowds means less money for establishments to pay the rent. The economy has to adjust also.
Hopefully innovation can help us and maybe a vaccine wouldn't be too far off.
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Participants at the India Economic Summit 2016 in New Delhi, India, Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
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Box label: American related cartoons, 5284 - 5476
Title: Virtual representation, 1775
Translated title:
Creator/Contributor:
Created/Published: [London]
Date issued: 1775-04-01
Physical description: 1 print : engraving, color ; 10 x 12 in.
Summary: Bute aims a blunderbuss at an American gentleman with a club while Britannia falls into "the Pit Prepared for Others." In the background, Roman Catholic Quebec sits serenely on the hill while "the English Protestant Town of Boston" is in flames.
Genre: Political cartoons; Engravings
Subjects: Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792; Britannia (Symbolic character); United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Politics & government; Punishment & torture; Firearms
Notes: References: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, no. 5286 (BM 5286); References: American Revolution in Drawings and Prints, no. 683 (ARDP 683)
Statement of responsibility:
Collection: Americana Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions
In celebration of National Barbie day!
Barbie Tip #46: How do you expect somebody to love you if they don't know who you are? Don't change yourself for anybody! Always be you! Always! Signed: Barbie & Kylie, too!
Use this James Webb Space Telescope background for your next virtual holiday party, meeting or class!
Original image: Credit NASA/Chris Gunn.
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I'm nowhere near the tallest humanoid avatar in Second Life, but if merchants keep making their homes & shops based on RL heights.... Well, you suck.
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Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General with Technical Cooperation's Division for Europe at the NUTEC Plastics Roundtable (virtual) for Europe and Central Asia held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 7 October 2021.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Welcome to the Dr. Nax Institute of Virtual Wellness!
Do you have a tendency to take life seriously? Do the events around you have an all too great impact upon your well being? Do you feel that you have a mission in life? Do you think that you have been put upon this virtual earth for a deep a reason? Are you looking for “meaning”?
Do you take yourself too seriously? Can you no longer laugh at yourself?
We have good news and bad news!
If your answers are "yes" to the questions above, then the bad news is that you are suffering from the virtual epidemic “seriousness”. The good news is that you are now at the right place! In the right hands!
Dr. Nax’s treatment program has been developed through 4 years of devoted observation of metaverse behavior. His findings and research have led him to develop his unique regimen which involves personal as well as group therapy sessions, during which you will be able to bare your heart freely – and get whacked on the head for doing so!
The doctor is available 7/24 through a carefully programmed chat robot based upon the famous ELIZA Rogerian psychotherapy system (http://nlp-addiction.com/eliza/)! Please lie down on the couch and start to talk. Dr. Nax will lead you with probing questions which will very quickly bring you back to your (non)senses!
However, the therapy sessions are not the only aid at our disposal: Throughout his time in the metaverse the good doctor has also collected a vast repository of therapeutic instruments which are now being put at your disposal at this very location. This is by no means a random collection of so-called “freebies” but an immensely valuable resource, hand picked precisely for its effectiveness in curing delusions of “seriousness” of all descriptions. If used in the prescribed manner (further instructions in the purchase boxes. Please read very carefully!) much benefit will be attained quickly – and painfully!
May you have many wonderful, frivolous, silly, off-the-wall, haphazard, serendipitous days in the metaverse!
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Use this James Webb Space Telescope background for your next virtual holiday party, meeting or class!
This is the view into Northrop Grumman's cleanroom, showcasing Webb. This image is slightly darkened and blurred.
Credit: Northrop Grumman
Today is the beginning of our 12-week FREE Virtual Summer Camp series. We're starting off with learning about a 17th-century soldier's survival food since June's theme is Exploring Foodways in Colonial Florida!
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Lighting: Paul C Buff Einstein with reflector and grid camera left. Einstein with 51" reflecting umbrella camera right. Fired with Cybersyncs.
Use this James Webb Space Telescope background for your next virtual holiday party, meeting or class! This image is slightly darkened.
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I have a cigarette named after me!!! A wonderful new designer from Japan made this after we spoke one day.
Thank you SnowWhite!!!!!
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UN VISTAZO AL FUTURO -- La realidad virtual eventualmente será tan creíble que representará una tarea casi imposible el distinguirla de las experiencias del mundo real.
La gente afectada por este tipo de trastorno disociativo de la realidad dudará constantemente de aquello que se presente ante sus ojos debido a que bien podrían ser sofisticadas copias de la realidad. Irónicamente, a medida que esta hiperrealidad gane terreno en la mente humana, para muchos individuos se transformará en asunto irrelevante el saber si algo es real o no lo es...
During the virtual dialogical tour through the Ars Electronica Center's Understanding AI exhibition, students are not only given a basic understanding of this technological phenomenon, but also discuss the range of applications that AI brings and also which chances and which dangers are involved.
This virtual tour is part of Ars Electronica Home Delivery.
To find out more about Ars Electronica Home Delivery go here: ars.electronica.art/homedelivery/en/
Credit: Ars Electronica - Robert Bauernhansl