http://eightbar.co.uk Raising The Eight Bar Sun, 11 May 2008 20:26:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Remember two years ago, when BBC Radio 1 came to Second Life for One Big Weekend? This year they explored augmented reality with a Band In Your Hand. Here's Scott Mills showing Chappers how it works. Unfortunately the (Windows-only) download has already been taken down. Why? Because... Due to music rights restrictions ... http://eightbar.co.uk/2008/05/11/bbc-radio-1-augmenting-reality-with-a-band-in-your-hand/ This is what planet Hursley looks like early in the morning. Ian suggested I share. :-) http://eightbar.co.uk/2008/05/08/planet-hursley/ A common theme often emerges when showing people virtual worlds and metaverses. The theme is that of identity. Whilst sometimes this is the more usual business side of identity "how do we know someone is who they are claiming to be" that is actually a slightly different problem to the ... http://eightbar.co.uk/2008/05/08/being-who-we-are-online-and-offline/ Jason Ellis works in IBM Research and maintains a brilliant blog about art and games. In a recent post, he links to this demo video for Melodyne's new Direct Note Access technology, which looks frankly astonishing. As the video shows, exploding a sampled chord allows the kind of editing ... http://eightbar.co.uk/2008/05/07/nifty-note-manipulation/ On friday a contingent of the Hursley Emerging tech crew (a good few of who are founder members of eightbar) gathered in a Hampshire field to have a rocket launching competition. Fellow eightbar Rob Smart has produced this video of the entire event, its features all the key moments including ... http://eightbar.co.uk/2008/05/04/rockets-in-action-and-i-dont-mean-salad-leaves/ Roo's very own rooreynolds.com got a mention on this page in the computer weekly blog awards 2008 So in keeping with the desire to collect awards such as the IBM Baffler as well as voting for Roo or Andy Piper why not pop in a vote for eightbar too :-) Nominate ... http://eightbar.co.uk/2008/05/01/yet-more-awards-please-no-metaverse-section-though/ It would be impossible to not do a post about Grand Theft Auto IV here. So here we go. Not everyone who has come to virtual worlds and metaverse, nor everyone who is a tech geek is a gamer. In fact it seems that many tech geeks simply are not ... http://eightbar.co.uk/2008/04/30/the-merging-of-experience-gta-iv/ We had a Hackday in IBM today, it was the 5th year of having a day when people just find a project and blitz it for a day. The aim is not always completion, but starting and sharing. I decided to try a proof of concept around augmented reality on my ... http://eightbar.co.uk/2008/04/25/augmented-reality-n95-style-hackday-tea/ This video has just surfaced from Vollee showing the SL experience on a 3g Phone. This service is one that instead of trying to make the phone do all the work it renders the client remotely and streams it to you as video which you then interact with remotely. This ... http://eightbar.co.uk/2008/04/22/streaming-second-life-to-a-3g-phone-vollee/ I believe that many people are still looking at metaverses and not considering the wide spectrum of modes that the subject covers. Some of the potential reasons given for fear or suspicion are directed at the wrong end of the spectrum and hide the other deeper benefits that may be ... http://eightbar.co.uk/2008/04/21/business-interaction-in-metaverses-reverse-ice-model-to-map-against/