Interactive Media

Greetings to you all and welcome to this class blog. This year, along with setting up your own personal blogs to research and review the interactive sector, I hope that you will all use this blog to share your thoughts and ideas with classmates. Please...

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Say hello to five up-and-coming game creators taking on the world. Our team of App Store editors are all about celebrating new and interesting games; but here, we’re going behind the scenes to meet some of the independent creators behind some of them. via Pocket

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The hyperlink reaches my inbox a few minutes before 10PM on Saturday night. I click the link and enter a password. And at precisely 10PM, a video pops up on the page, welcoming me to Eschaton: part performance art, part nightclub, and all conducted over video chat. via Pocket

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Last year at the Tribeca Film Festival something mysterious took place at 359 Canal Street. For those who stepped off the sidewalk and into the boarded up storefront a threshold to another world awaited. via Pocket

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Head-mounted devices for virtual and augmented reality come in different shapes and sizes from the minimal Google Glass to the fully immersive HTC vive. At it’s core, head-mounted displays (HMDs) consist of two primary structural elements: optics and image displays. via Pocket

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SLA is our next interactive VR project! #NEMWENstudio expanding the limits of cinema. via Pocket

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Meet the world builders breaking us free from our screens. “The Art of Immersion: how to build powerful story experiences” is published by Adam Westbrook via Pocket

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illustrates the possibilities of deepfake technologies by reimagining this seminal event. via Pocket

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Explore #TheSpaceWeHold

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Mojo Vision is a company that’s working to produce smart contact lenses, which it hopes in the near future will let users have a non-obtrusive display without needing to wear a pair of smart glasses. via Pocket

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We were promised community, civics, and convenience. Instead, we found ourselves dislocated, distrustful, and disengaged. In April 1997, Wired magazine published a feature with the grand and regrettable title “Birth of a Digital Nation. via Pocket

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What are the best books for those interested in storytelling, play and design? While I was prepping for a course that I’m teaching this semester at Columbia University, I reached out via facebook for some reading recommendations. Below is a partial list of some of the wonderful suggestions. via Pocket

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What is visual storytelling? In 2019, with so many high-tech tools at our fingertips and countless content creators and marketers working across styles and media, that’s a loaded question. But at its core, it’s a way to weave an enchanting tale. via Pocket

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Apple CEO Tim Cook appears to have taken a subtle swipe at Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg over their diverging views on the future of technology. Cook was in Dublin to receive an award for Apple's investment in the country, and while at the event he gave a fireside chat-style interview. via Pocket

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Ai Weiwei’s first virtual reality video, which you can see here, is called Omni. It fuses together two films the artist has made focusing on the migrant crisis, immersing viewers in the upheaval of displacement and exile for both animals and humans. via Pocket

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Maybe this will be the year virtual reality goes mainstream. If we say it enough times we’ll be right eventually, yeah? But it really does feel like 2020 might be the year. Four years into consumer virtual reality, I finally feel excited again. The hardware is great, and cheaper than ever before. via Pocket