Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Mixed Reality Projects
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Remember "Dream Drive" (aka "Micchy" in VRChat), the Japanese inventor who is jaw-droppingly creating a robot in the real world that is controllable from within VRChat? Of course you do! We don't fully have a Metaverse along the strictest definition until there's a way to bridge the virtual world with real world devices. So here's…
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I've seen some insanely ambitious VRChat projects but good god just watch this video already. It's from "Dream Drive" , a Japanese inventor who is creating an 8 foot tall Transformers-type robot in the real world… that is controllable from within VRChat. That's possible, he tells me, by virtual serial communication between VRChat and Raspberry…
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Above: Pop star Grimes, who believes reality is a virtual world created by an omniscient AI, explains how Alter Ego works Months after its producers began scouting among the Second Life community for avatar-based performers, the avatar-based reality competition show Alter Ego is here: Watch on Fox TV's site. I just saw the first episode…
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Back in May, a FOX producer was reaching out to members of the Second Life community (and presumably other virtual world communities) about Alter Ego, an upcoming avatars-meet-Masked Singer reality competition show. Now set to premiere on September 22nd, here's the teaser. … and here's my questions about it:
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Anytime I watch clips from FOX's The Masked Singer, my first thought is, "Why are all these celebrities costumed up to look like furries from Second Life and VRChat?" So I was utterly unsurprised to read about Alter Ego, an upcoming reality competition show from the same TV network: ALTER EGO is an all-new original…
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In case you missed it last week, here's the Discovery Channel's BattleBots fight between SlapBox and Sharko, prototyped in Second Life by Artorius Constantine, owner of SL's Nano Station Technologies store. Sent to us via BattleBots super-fan Devin Vaughn, it is almost more brutal and merciless as a major fashion drop in SL, which is…
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This is a crazy cool project that links up the lighting system in a real life venue (San Francisco's venerable DNA Lounge, in this case) to the lighting system in a virtual world. As creator James Baicoianu explains: Controlling lights in a WebXR night club using Chamsys MagicQ, a professional lighting control suite. This lets…
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