Artists, Creators, Copiers, Thieves, Supporters, Evangelists…

The last few days have seen some bluster created by Lily Allen in a very similar way to Metallica back in the early days of P2P file sharing. I was interested to see this sensible and well executed response to some of the arguments.

It is one of those subject that we see time and time again. [...]

You have to explore, its the wild west

All the virtual world work I do, whilst having a playful side to it is still all about business, my Second Life interactions in particular I have some very good friends but we are all in the business. We talk about making things, persuading people, and share some experiences we have had. Travel in virtual worlds [...]

Explaining Second Life inside and out

This week I had the pleasure of driving to the NEC in birmingham and presenting the a body of people attending the Events UK trade show. The presentation was quite last minute, I was offered the chance to fill in for Linden Lab/Second Life.
The show came in two parts. The first was presenting at the NEC [...]

Are you pointing that thing at me?

The appstore is now starting to fill up with AR applications. The next is Robot Vision thanks Tish for Tweeting it

So there we go, open up the things already on the device to the development community and we have leapt from a really subtle launch of what we used to call location based services for [...]

Bionic Eye – Augmented Reality on the Iphone (officially)

@kohdspace just tweeted this piece of news from Mobile Crunch.
After what amounted to some terms of service violation hacks where people built AR applications for the iPhone it seems that this Bionic Eye is an official AppStore approved version.
I don’t have an iPhone (yet) despite being a registered iPhone developer, but if the api’s are released [...]

Using the Evolver Clone. Is that me?

Yet more experiments with Evolver. I tried using the single photo upload and then adjusting the regsitration points on the face. The result is interesting I think.

It was from this delightful glasses removed picture of my goodself. See what you think.

As an avatar augmentalist rather than a realist I think I prefer the more extreme cartoon [...]

The inchventure – come on in.

There a few days left to join in the fun in round 2 of Jerry Paffendorf’s innovative project to create a network of inch size land parcels in Detroit linked with virtual land too. Its intriguing and fun to think where this will go.
To quote from http://7billionfriends.com/
“In my pursuit of ever cooler, grander, more meaningful things [...]

Heading for the NEC Birmingham

I have just been asked to present on the subject of Second Life and what it is all about at this event next week (23rd, and on the 24th in Second Life itself). I don’t think this is the right venue for all of my washing away cave paintings pitch but one that needs more of [...]

And there he is. Evolver to Unity3d and the web

This is a very very quick demo, but shows the Evolver Avatar that I purchased and downloaded dropped into a Unity3d environment.
Unity3d plugin still not working on Snow Leopard Safari hoping that gets fixed soon.

In another version I linked the bones to the ragdoll physics in Unity3d, I need to do a bit more with that [...]

Luxurious Faberge pushing the boundaries of web selling, here comes the turtles.

I was chatting today to Andy Burns a longstanding friend and former colleague (wimbledon and interactive media centre etc.) about his recent project. He has been doing a huge amount of work with Faberge and their new rebranded website.

I found what had been done intriguing and also very related to the evolution of the web and [...]