Cutting the cord
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Sex slaves, Isis, & VR: oh my!
I was completely and utterly blown away by Kent Bye‘s “Voices of VR” podcast that interviewed directors Céline Tricart and conflict journalist Christian Stephen about The Sun Ladies VR 360 video / VR experience. It’s about the Yezidi women who were taken as sex slaves after Isis invaded their towns and killed all the men. Some managed to escape from their ordeal and are now trained fighters hunting the men down who did it to them, intent on rescuing as many other women as they can. VR at its best: used to communicate a
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Five day VRaycation
I spent five full days over New Year’s playing with an HTC Vive. Which is interesting in NYC apartment, since half the furniture had to be moved to make room for the motion tracking units mounted on two spindly tripods! As an artist as well as a tech enthusiast, it was an interesting experience. So much to try out. I have a book’s worth of impressions and opinions coming out of the experience, but quickly – my favorite: hands down, Blortasia by Kevin Mack, a neuroscientist and artist. It’s a psychedelic drift through an ever changing,
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Face Swapping: Deepfakes
Face-swapping celebrity faces onto porn performers’ bodies (“Deepfakes”). It’s a thing. Yes, it’s about porn….but it’s not: if Photoshop has played a major role in bending “reality” the point where no one believes a photo any more, just wait until the same “bending reality” happens easily, with video. How will anyone know what’s “real” ?? Will there be clipart galleries, just waiting for faces to be superimposed on them? What about superimposing faces on bodies in VR? – wonder if actors will make deals with entertainment producers to license their faces into VR/AR content, not
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Not quite feeling it
One of the major challenges facing virtual reality is that when you’re visually immersed in another world, your internal body mechanisms are screaming “Danger Will Robinson!” since they know you’re not *actually* moving/flying/speeding/whatever. There are plenty of companies working on simulating all that, to trick your brain into coming along with your eyes; but it it’s early days for VR, it’s even earlier days for that. Take for example, the situation where you’re exploring Mars. As one does (or will be!). How are you “moving” through the terrain, without your legs actually moving? – and
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That’s a hill of beans (a hill of seed?)
These people got financing for, among other reasons, they aren’t inventing any technology, rather are closer to a traditional studio creating Virtual Reality content for clients. That’s a lot of capital for a seed round! Penrose Studio raises seed capital for VR content studio
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Getting away from it all
Every flight attendant’s dream! Rows of people completely immersed in being somewhere else 🙂 Read more at Tech Crunch
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There’s an Oculus Rift Room in the works
Reminds me of the short science fiction story where the children let the virtual reality room lion eat their parents when they try to take them out of the VR room (The Veldt by Ray Bradbury) …. from Upload VR: “This could be an interesting twist in the upcoming VR wars but Palmer thinks room scale is “fantasy that few games will utilize.” More info @ Upload VR
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