Building worlds with Xmod’s NetVRk

Focus: AR/VR, Virtual reality, Virtual world technology

I attended the Miami VR Expo two weeks ago, at the  invitation of its Co-Founder, Adrian Allen.  It’s their first year, and he told me his goal for it is very clear: to grow the AR/VR community in Miami. A noble cause. As he pointed out, Magic Leap is nearby, as is DisneyWorld’s themed entertainment, and there are a ton of Miami art school graduates who would like to work in AR/VR but end up leaving the area for lack of work. There’s a parallel to that with  Drexel University in Philadelphia and the

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Creative Tech Week 2018 done & dusted ;)

Appearances & Press, Focus: AR/VR, speaking engagements, Virtual reality, Virtual world technology

On May 11th I was honored to give a lightening talk at Creative Tech Week around my artist journey with the Google Tiltbrush as part of my 5 day “VRaycation“. This fish is the first thing I made in Tiltbrush; I talked about the shift from object creation / CAD mindset, to a world building one. The narrative explored how, as an experienced 2- and 3D artist I was exploring Tiltbrush’s “special sauce”; how each medium has something it’s particularly good for, and my journey to find it. Hint: it involved giving up on

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Upcoming speaking engagement on VR at Creative Tech Week

Focus: AR/VR, speaking engagements, Virtual reality

I’m spending a very pleasant morning at Good Karma cafe in Philadelphia (love the old leaded glass windows and plants!!) writing the first draft of my Creative Tech Week presentation I’m giving on May 11th in NYC… I’ll be talking about my experience as a first time VR artist (remember my 5 day VRaycation?). Might be the only presentation in the history of the world which talks about repousse, mokume gane, CAD and VR in the same breath lol (they’re all on a 3d sculpture continuum imho!)  Here’s my Creative Tech Week profile: http://creativetechweek.nyc/…/linda-ricci-strategy-consulta…

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Sex slaves, Isis, & VR: oh my!

360 Video, Entertainment, Focus: AR/VR, Virtual reality

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

Entertainment, Focus: AR/VR, Gaming, Just for fun, Virtual reality

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

Augmented reality, Entertainment, Focus: AR/VR, Virtual reality

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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