Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: New World Tech
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You probably know already that the visuals for the Disney streaming show The Mandalorian are created in the Unreal 3D engine, but this Vox explainer video shows you how those virtual spaces are integrated with the actual, physical cast: Not through green screen but via giant, curving LED displays, which effectively wrap the actors in…
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Caveat emptor and all that, but the iPad LIDAR Scanner just published in Beta seems seriously impressive, able to "capture" real world objects and convert them into imperfect but pretty usable 3D models. It works, says developer Laan Labs, by automatically extracting objects via machine learning (i.e. extrapolating data for unseen surfaces). More info from…
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With less than a month before the next U.S. Presidential election, here's new survey results from the development team of Blind, an anonymous messaging/virtual community app for company staffers that's especially popular at large tech firms. This one asked a question that's been the subject of constant press coverage since the 2016 election: Is Facebook doing enough…
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I'm pretty convinced cloud streaming is going to be the future of online games, especially virtual worlds, so today's acquisition by Microsoft of Skyrim developer Bethesda is worth keeping an eye on: As the gaming industry transforms from a device-centric era to a player-centric era powered by new technology that provides the freedom to play…
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A majority of Facebook employees do not believe the company is responsible for preventing misinformation about the US election on its platform. That's at least according to an anonymous survey launched last week by the development team of Blind, an anonymous messaging app for tech company staffers. With about 1500 replies registered by employees across many technology…
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News on the future VR from Germany to keep an eye on, albeit poorly translated via Google: Oculus glasses: Facebook stops sales in Germany The VR data from Oculus would add a new data dimension to the aforementioned super profiles – further problems with the cartel office and European data protection would be inevitable. In…
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Here's a really interesting "Economy of the Metaverse" conversation with Epic's Tim Sweeney and game exec Joseph Kim. A lot of its focus, of course, is on how Epic's Fortnite might be a future model for the metaverse. But much of it is actually about the current platform ecosystem (Apple's App Store, Google Play, Amazon,…
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Filmmaker and animator Chadrick Scott (a fellow Linden Lab alum from back in the day) has been posting some seriously gorgeous computer animated clips like this to his Instagram. They began as real life video, but as Chadrick tells me, evolved into these fractal-like videos through some heavy post-processing via multiple programs. "Starts with a…
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Click here to register for a free ticket to BlockDown, the blockchain-focused tech conference kicking off today that’s being hosted in Sinespace’s Breakroom (a media partner to this blog). As VentureBeat reported recently, the first BlockDown in Sinespace (video above) brought in a pretty impressive number of attendees to network, hear talks, and of course,…
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