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Category Archives: Media
Avatar – Pandoran Ocean Creatures
Avatar and Disney Possible Planet are supporting The Nature Conservancy to protect 10 of Earth’s oceans’ animals and their habitats, connected to the beauty of the fictional Pandora moon. Up to July 31, 2023, create your own Avatar-inspired ocean creature … Continue reading
CuteCircuit – Digital Fashion by Francesca Rosella
Francesca Rosella co-founded CuteCircuit with Ryan Genz in 2004. It is the world’s first wearable technology fashion brand. Francesca has been active in this space since 2001 and works in a mix of virtual, digital and physical fashion. This blog … Continue reading
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Silent Running
The 1972 Film “Silent Running” directed by Douglas Turnbull has a central plot of a future where scientists have sought to protect the environmental diversity of Earth’s natural resources by creating a protected “island” in space – on converted commercial … Continue reading
Abba Avatars
50 years after their initial formation and 40 years after their last performances together, Swedish super-group Abba are back with a new album and a virtual reality concert planned to start in London’s Olympic Park in May 2022. Avatars created … Continue reading
Future Culture Edinburgh
https://efi.ed.ac.uk/events/future-culture-edinburgh/ Can we collectively reimagine Edinburgh’s cultural ecosystem and its future? A mixed-reality workshop broadcast from Leith Theatre, Edinburgh with online participants via Zoom, organised by the Edinburgh Futures Institute. miro.com was used to allow brainstorm style input from participants… … Continue reading
Nebula 75: a day of puppets at the University of Hull
Hosted by the University of Hull on 27th may 2021, there was a live screening, Q&A, discussion and live onstage filming re-creation of a key scene with the team behind the web series Nebula 75, which was created during the … Continue reading
BBC Academy – Trust in News
Trust in News Conference: The View from the Frontline Fighting Disinformation Online event – 24th March 2021 – https://www.bbc.co.uk/beyondfakenews/trustinnews Hosted by Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC Technology Correspondent, speaking to representatives of the social media platforms about their part in turning the … Continue reading
Lost Horizon – Music Festival in VR
Lost Horizon has been created by the team behind Glastonbury’s Shangri-La festival within a festival, and in conjunction with VRJAM and Sansar to be “the world’s largest independent music and arts festival in virtual reality”. Lost Horizon is a REAL … Continue reading
Alone Together – Jean-Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel Jarre and his Avatar engaged in a Live VR performance using the VRChat platform to celebrate Fête de la Musique 2020, June 21st at 21h15 CET. The event took place in the “VRRoom” area of VRChat. Some notes on … Continue reading
Clamavi De Profundis – Tolkien Poems
Clamavi De Profundis is a family that loves to sing together and record inspiring and uplifting music. Their music is influenced by classical and fantasy literature as well as cinematic, traditional, religious, and classical music. In particular they have created … Continue reading
WordPress Blog Export and Import
I have been experimenting with export and reimport of WordPress blog posts and media content. If the Dashboard -> Tools -> Export (or under Dashboard -> Settings -> Export) was used to export “All” content and then the new destination … Continue reading
Symbols
White Rose – Representing West Yorkshire From BBC Gardening – Plant Finder – White Rose Sea Holly Thistle – Representing Scotland From BBC Gardening – Plant Finder – Sea Holly Thistle Crescent Moon and Stars – Representing our Solar System … Continue reading
Icelandair Airplanes with Interior Aurora LED Lighting
Icelandair has introduced a customized paint job on one of their Boeing 757s showing the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights and introduced cabin night time LED lighting effects which shimmers like an aurora. The plane is named “Hekla Aurora“. Images … Continue reading
3D Stereo Photography
Harlyn Baker, a long term colleague and friend, visited Edinburgh on 19th June 2015. Harlyn did his M.Phil at Edinburgh, supervised by Prof. Donald Michie and Dr. Harry Barrow, my own supervisors. He completed his PhD at the University of … Continue reading
Drawingboard in Second Life and OpenSim
Using the Media on a Prim (MOAP) capability to display web pages, including JavaScript (.js) on faces of objects in Second Life and OpenSim, a simple drawing facility can be provided. Drawingboard – Single User Whiteboard Drawingboard is a canvas … Continue reading
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Game of Thrones
Okay, I have to get into this… bought the books by George R.R. Martin to make a start… Guides and Maps HBO Viewers Guide and Map Quartermaester Interactive Map Fantastic Maps – The Lands of Ice and Fire – Poster … Continue reading
The Illusionist
A reminder about the lovely hand drawn animated film “The Illusionist” following a down-at-heels French performer with Scotland and Edinburgh scenes. It was produced in 2010 and directed by Sylvain Chomet. More details on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illusionist_(2010_film). A trailer is at http://www.theillusionistmovie.com
Future My Love
The Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI) is presenting a series of events at the 2015 Edinburgh International Science Festival. These inspiring, future-facing events will appear under the banner: What does a low carbon future look like? See http://edinburghcentre.org/events/EISF2015. The … Continue reading
Streaming Second Life via Steam Broadcasting
Steam has a broadcast feature that lets others watch you play a Steam game or run a Steam launched application. This can be used to broadcast Second Life activity. You add your choice of Second Life viewer to your Steam … Continue reading
Edinburgh 3D Film Festival – Life in 3D Symposium 2014
https://sites.eca.ed.ac.uk/3dsymposium/ http://www.edinburgh-3d-film-festival.com Slide from invited talk by Dhanraj Vishwanath of St. Andrews University on neurology and psychology of 3D The Audience dons the Red/Green Glasses
Replacement Media Server for AIAI
Roger Burroughes in the School of Informatics Computing Team has been doing experiments with me to design and provide a new flexible http://media.inf.ed.ac.uk and replacement http://media.aiai.ed.ac.uk server. The AIAI media content has been replicated on a new file server and … Continue reading