Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: High Fidelity
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You heard the High Fidelity demo of multiple jazz musicians across California seperately jamming in the same virtual space, now get your headphones and hear this demo (above), showing how three separate jazz musicians could play live in High Fidelity in sync. What's seriously cool (especially in the COVID age) is how the sound changes…
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' Put your headphones on and click play to hear a group of quarantined jazz musicians improving together in High Fidelity, the 3D spatial audio virtual world. Uploaded by music theorist Rob Ewing, you can hear different groups of improv happening at the same time; there were seven performers in this session, he tells me,…
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Sick of Zoom meetings? Of course you are! So put on your headphones and play the video above. It's not actually a Zoom call but a simulation of what a Zoom call would sound like, using High Fidelity's very impressive 3D spatial audio. As you can hear, it sounds as if the callers displayed on…
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Philip Rosedale on How COVID Has Transformed Virtual Worlds — And Helped Crystallize His Life’s Work
Recent New Yorker story on Zoom fatigue (no jokes, please) features a number of its virtual world/VR alternatives, and focuses quite a bit on High Fidelity, capturing and expanding upon the sense of audio-powered immersiveness that so impressed me when it launched last May: Re-creating offline interactions is difficult. Without video, High Fidelity has done…
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Update, August 7: Bumped up for viewing and discussion. Post title changed accordingly! Update 2 , August 7: Courtesy Strawberry, here's the main questions she asked Philip: Do you still log in to Second Life? If so, what communities and experiences do you enjoy exploring? Are you surprised that Second Life is still around 20…
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Click "JOIN LIVE DEMO" here to try a new demo of High Fidelity, the 3D audio-based virtual world from Philip Rosedale and crew. (Headphones and mic strongly recommended!) As you'll hear, the demo immersively dives you into a pool party where you seem to be surrounded by music and dozens of people, talking (or sometimes…
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Since High Fidelity launched its 3D audio-powered virtual world in May, it has seen a steady increase of groups using it to host various events and conferences, especially those that can no longer be held in the real world due to the ongoing pandemic. The most prominent so far is probably this one: The Mandela…
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You've been recently reading about Philip Rosedale's new 3D space audio plus 2D graphics version of High Fidelity, how musicians like Thievery Corporation's Rob Garza are enthused, even how it might even be used for real world social activism and protests. But none of that's quite convincing until you actually hear what I've been writing…
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Update, 6/11: Some readers raised serious security concerns about using this app for activism. Lead developer Philip Rosedale replies to those in Comments and below. Here's a fascinating new update to High Fidelity's new spacial 3D audio chat app for PC/Mac web browsers and for iPhones: Now, you can overlay maps to downtown Washington D.C.,…
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Go here to create an account and then click here to join Philip Rosedale in High Fidelity's public pool party. You can also DM Philip on Twitter to invite him over to your own High Fidelity server. This is the "audio plus 2D world" (as Philip describes it) that uses High Fidelity's highly spacial audio…
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