Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Mixed Reality Projects
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I just checked in on HoloBike, a new indie project I wrote about as it launched on Kickstarter last month, and was surprised to see (with 19 days more to go) that it's already raised nearly $90,000 — way over 3X its $25,000 goal. So we're likely to see this completely new approach to exploring…
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Now on Kickstarter: Can You See Me Now, a crowdfunder to update a groundbreaking mixed reality game of the same name for the modern era of iOS and Android. Launched in the early 2000s, it helped inspire the creation of Pokémon Go, but Can You See Me Now is much more accessible: "It's hide-and-seek with…
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I often say the market for metaverse platforms is about 1 in 4 people on the Internet, since 1 in 4 is roughly how many people enjoy heavily immersive 3D game worlds on their devices. But we are seeing new technology that enables immersion beyond a traditional game/VR device, as with Disney's HoloTile that I…
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The Second Life to Discord text bridge I featured the other day is not available on the Marketplace (at least not yet), but there are already other options there. This one from Peter Strindberg is well-rated and has similar features: Once activated, the relay announces itself in open chat, indicating how many lines of chat…
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JMoF2024で「3D動画技術でリアルのきぐるみをVRの世界とつなぐ企画」 きぐるMixedReality やったよ！！今までにない試みでいろんな試行錯誤があったけど、VR世界からも一緒に盛り上がれて最高だった！！ 来て遊んでくれた方、本当にありがとうございました！！！！！#JMoF #VR_JMoF #Resonite pic.twitter.com/NZpRaZBcDU — ととがんま (@totegamma) January 10, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js This demo video is somewhat confusing because just about everyone in it is a furry and it's from a Japanese-language site, but it's a mixed reality project that uses a battery of Kinect motion detectors to convert a real person into…
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Longtime SL artst Erik Mondrian created this pretty amazing video: A fly-over of Second Life’s Heterocera continent. However, with a unique and potentially ground-breaking twist: He didn’t shoot the video in Second Life itself. Instead, he exported Second Life’s terrain data, and recreated the continent in Blender. That’s what you’re seeing here. Inspired by Yevad…
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Intriguing new job opening from Apple for a AR/VR Network Engineer stating "In this role you will work closely with other developers and build tools and frameworks to enable connected experiences in a 3D mixed-reality world." I found the job listing via this Bloomberg story which interprets it in the broadest way possible: The most…
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Linden Lab only recently announced its Puppetry Project, enabling real time control of Second Life avatars through webcams and other movement tracking devices. But unsurprisingly, while the project is very much in Alpha, hardcore SLers are already unpacking and setting it up. That includes Judas Shuffle (love the avatar name, that's him above), who recently…
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AI is enabling some really magical experiences. 🪄 Originally planned to share this tomorrow, @sergeyglkn scooped us! 😜 Keep on eye on this space. It moves fast! 💨 pic.twitter.com/Of8PgJWZMM — Russ Maschmeyer (@StrangeNative) September 19, 2022 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js This is a fun and impressive demo: Online e-commerce site Shopify prototyping AI image generation used in fashion.…
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This is the mixed reality application of the month and is probably the Peak Japan moment of the year: A giant construction robot.. controlled through an XR headset. According to this Japanese news site (and Google's so-so translation), it is very much in production: [Railway company] JR West announced on the 15th that it is developing…
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