Join this. @ArthurRoingBaer has been privately relaying us the vision. High potential that Moving Castles is one of the most conceptually important projects of 2022.
We're excited to share how we've been using @rustlang for 3D rendering at @EmbarkStudios, and finally reveal a tiny glimpse of our creative platform! 🤩🦀
medium.com/embarkstudios/hom…
Oh, and my toy rendering engine `kajiya` is now open source! 👀 Details in the article! 🔬
COLLECTIVE PLAY ✧
Roblox w @4everwilliam
For Thursday's game session we will peak into the cursed variety of Roblox games experiences, Roblox in game currency Robux & the map creator economy around it.
Thu 23 Sep 20:00-21:00
Participate via Trust Discord ♡
🎉Voices of VR Episode #1000🎉
I do a 3-hour deep dive retrospective featuring over 100 of the best answers to Ultimate Potential of VR.
It’s a great primer to the range of immediate, near-term, & future applications of XR & the metaverse.
voicesofvr.com/1000-voices-o…
AWESOME breakdown of Valve's latest patents by @SadlyItsBradley.
Valve figured out varifocal optics without moving parts by using a series of pancaked polarized lenses eye tracking (!)
Sounds AMAZING!
Also auto IPD, won't need glasses, return to OLED, & less variability in FOV
There is only one indispensable book on online world design, and it is Dr Richard Bartle's DESIGNING VIRTUAL WORLDS. It predates World of Warcraft, and yet is not obsolete.
As of today, Richard is giving it away for free here: mud.co.uk/richard/DesigningV…
Beyond Speculation About the Ethics of Virtual Reality: The Need for Empirical Results frontiersin.org/article/10.3… - Some important and interesting points by @melslater🙏
Our #VR team is frequently asked what programs to recommend for patients. We maintain a list here: virtualmedicine.org/favorite…. In addition, this new article reviewed over 1700 programs and found 11 that are free and considered to be therapeutically valuable: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…
Fascinating and visionary essay from 1988 where John Walker @Fourmilab, the founder of Autodesk, urges his company to seize the moment and enter the field of virtual reality (he preferred the term Cyberspace). Rest of his website was fun to browse too! fourmilab.ch/autofile/e5/cha…
Rare footage from Cyberthon, a 24-hour #VR event presented by Whole Earth Institute in 1990. Steward Brand, Brain Eno, Jaron Lanier, Timothy Leary, Terence McKenna, William Gibson etc in the house... cool vibes vimeo.com/169075463
Listen to one of Sweden’s highest ranked and most popular professional public speakers, authors and entertainers, @Annikarmalmberg, sharing WHY, WHEN and HOW she uses Speaking Place, our VR app for presentation skills training, in her own preparation and training!
Feeling a bit usless in this crisis so:
If you have an idea for an app/ VR piece that will help people specifically to do with Corvid-19 or self isolation - talk to me and I'll build it, free of charge.