Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: New World Tech
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There's a pretty big new update to Equimake, the free-to-use platform for collaborative real-time 3D creation on the web (and a proud partner to New World Notes): It now comes with 900 free Unreal-based 3D assets to use in your scene-building, and there's a User Presence "avatar" indicator, to make collaborative interaction easier within the…
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Equimake is a seriously cool, free-to-use platform for collaborative real-time 3D creation on the web partly inspired by my book; starting next month, I'm proud to announce Equimake is a sponsoring media partner to New World Notes! Created by Canadian developer Alexander Yevsyeyev, you can not only share, create, and script interactive 3D scenes with others,…
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Here's a new tutorial for getting started on Equimake, the new indie platform which enables live, multi-user collaborative 3D building on the web. (Skip ahead to 5:25 for a demo of the multi-user creation feature!) Since blogging about it last week, founder/lead dev Alex Yevsyeyev tells me nearly 500 people have joined the community, mainly…
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Equimake is a new indie platform which enables live, multi-user collaborative 3D building on the web. Just launched in early beta, it's the passion project of Canadian developer Alexander Yevsyeyev, who recently gave up his day job in tech to create a new, delightfully accessible means of social creation online. (Watch the demo above!) "Over…
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If you’ve watched Netflix’s new sci-fi series 3 Body Problem (and you should, it’s excellent!) based on the novel by Liu Cixin, you probably wondered about the amazing virtual world that’s a key part of the story. Without spoiling anything, a mysterious alien species communicates with humanity through a multi-user virtual experience with seemingly sentient…
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Good points from Martin K. on my thought that Jeri Ellsworth's low-ish cost Tilt Five AR device could be a viable Spatial Computing competitor against Apple Vision Pro: I guess part of Apple's vision for Vision Pro is that it provides you with access to much of Apple's ecosystem (including your media library, e-mails, browser…
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Here's the results of my super scientific survey on buying the Vision Pro. Among the 80 respondents asked when they plan to buy Apple's HMD, a strong plurality of 45% chose "Never". On the other side, 50% said they do want a Vision Pro… at some point. Some sooner than later. 10% answered "Now", which…
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Photo copyright Om Malik — see original and others on his site Writer and venture capitalist Om Malik, who tutored me on the tech world as my editor at GigaOM, just wrote one of the most interesting takes on Vision Pro I've come across. Because Om also happens to be excellent photographer (evidence above and…
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Screencap of generative agent simulation — playable here Last week I wrote about the game developer who incorporated ChatGPT into his NPC-to-player conversations in his virtual world; now comes an experiment with "generative agents" — AI-powered NPCs, who talk with each other: In the experiment, the researchers placed 25 generative agents within a virtual world…
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Since TikTok Can Turn Users Into Avatarized Versions of Themselves, Will the Proteus Effect Kick In?
, As a general rule, when people create a virtual world avatar for themselves, most tend to opt for a conventionally idealized version of their offline selves — younger, more symmetrical, in better shape, and so on. Basically, hotter. TikTok, everyone's favorite social media app controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, has taken that to…
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