Relive my fire

Tweet

Yes ok a terrible Take That pun. Never thought I would type that. However I am recovering from the excellent Relive 11 conference we just had at the OU in Milton Keynes. It was a really good gathering of fellow metaverse evangelists mostly from Academia. As it was academic there was a humbling number of detailed [...]

Massive virtual world event(s) – LA & MK

Tweet

In a few hours over in LA at the Sony Centre the inaugural vPEARL Summit will kick off, the first event from vecolab.org.

This is IEEE backed and aims immerse many people from around the world, all with the goal, to make human connections and to advance the medium of virtual environments. Together creating an UBER [...]

Kinect robots from microsoft

Tweet

I was researching some robot options for The Cool Stuff Collective and I bumped into the Microsoft Robotics at home (US based) competition. It would appear there is now a MS Robotics software dev kit (Developer Studio 4). However the really interesting part is that there is a reference design for some hardware that is based [...]

Lookout Gamefest here we come

Tweet

There are a busy few days coming up, tomorrow is a BCS London presentation of all things metaverse/game/coolstuff etc and one of them is Friday when I am heading the press opening of Gamefest as the NEC. It is of course a good mix of personal interest and also for The Cool Stuff Collective to check [...]

More practical science in education – Let’s hope so!

Tweet

Today a report came out from the UK government select committee on Science and Technology looking into the apparent lack of practical science work in schools that will create the next generation of scientists . It is heartening to see that the problem of a lack of practical science in schools has been identified. It is [...]

Minecraft Machinima

Tweet

There are some great examples of creative use of cover versions of popular music combined with machinima created in Minecraft appearing on youtube. This one is really good IMHO

If you don’t get what Minecraft is and can do then watch this, and then some of the linked videos too. It is a new generation of [...]

Streets ahead (nearly) with Driver SF

Tweet

Driver: San Francisco came out a few days ago and as a fan of all things cars, and in particular the original version it was a must get game. I still remember the buzz of seeing those original camera angles and seeing the hubcaps fly off as the old american car lurched around the corner, great [...]

Sparkling on Kinect with 3d finger drawing

Tweet

Now that I realize I can quicklaunch the Kinect Fun Labs apps individually and do not have to go through the uncharacteristic lockups caused by the Fun Labs launcher app I am getting to see some more of the gadgets.
This one is called sparkler and its results are interesting. You draw in 3d on a backdrop [...]

Talking careers, games, TV, BCS and Virtual worlds in 5 mins

Tweet

At the Develop conference this year I was asked if I minded doing a quick interview for http://www.gamecareers.biz/ so I popped along and this is the result.

We had a very quick chat before and then we just blasted through in 1 take
I am in good company if you look at the actual site here
Between Colin [...]