Today Amelie Marcoud, 1920s Berlin tenant, released a machinima titled ‘Ode to VR: the future of Virtual Reality’, shot in Second Life.A wonderful video, not to be missed:
Source: Ode to VR, a Second Life Machinima | Jo Yardley’s Second Life
show #134: michelle on sundance vr
Listen to this week’s Drax Files Radio Show Hour:
show #134
as we go to air the sundance film festival is about to conclude with one more day of parties, films and yes: vr!
our guest today is a successful indie media maker/singer/gamer michelle osorio and she went there – as she has done for the past 15 years – and she puts in her two cents on the state of vr for us today:
more detail on what we talked about:
- our guest michelle osorio who is a fire-woman in high fidelity!
- more news on oculus trial:
- more news on sansar: mit weighs in with a…
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show #133: sansar anxiety [getting stronger…]
Listen to another Drax Files Radio Hour! This time Sansar Anxiety is the topic and more:
show #133
what do you fear about sansar, the next gen virtual world they are cooking up over at linden lab?
and what are yout hopes?
and why on earth do we host this show on a day where most people [especially americans] have enough anxiety about the future of the REAL world?
enjoy this recording of our live panel at the time portal sim beatnik club:
here is the detail = our guests:
- erik mondrian
- cubey terra
- ben lang
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Revisiting Future Shock – sci-fi machinima in Second Life | Inara Pey: Living in a Modem World
In September 2016, I previewed a new machinima series, Future Shock, by Pryda Parx. At that point in time, the first episode had just been released, and Pryda was kind enough to allow me see the next two in the series. What I saw was intriguing in terms of story, setting and production values. Given the final episode was released just before Christmas, it seemed a good opportunity to watch the episodes back-to-back and talk a little more to Pryda about the work.
show #131: the state of the [virtual] world
Another Drax Files Radio Hour:
our year end panel: 6 diverse members of the global sl family, talking over each other with drax rambling in between, ca 90 minutes: our christmas gift to faithful listeners!
enjoy:
now read on and happy holidays:
- our guest nadine artful
nadine in both worlds
- our guest cube inada aka larry rosenthal
- our guest strawberry singh
- our champion guest arduenn schwartzmann
ard’s p**** grabber for a post trump world….
in case you could not follow the conversation: we were jumping between different topics in a somewhat hectic manner so here is the breakdown of questions and a link to contextualize:
- what about vr?
- what about a world where trump calls the shots?
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show #130: vr in germany [part3: sara]
Listen to a new Draxfiles Radio Hour!
show #130
today we talk to next gen vr enthusiast sara lisa vogl from vr nerds about staying in vr for 48 hours, making lucid dreams virtually a reality & bringing ca-style vr hubs to amsterdam, berlin and god knows where next…
that and jo and drax talk politics. what more/less do you want?
enjoy:
your weekly reading assignment:
- our guest sara lisa vogl [her game lucidtrips is on steam early access 11/29 >>> get it!]
lisa indoctrinating children on german tv
- she once helped pal thorsten s. wiedemann to stay in vr for 48 hours….
- sara djs using thewave:
- sara is making vr bases in amsterdam [open house 12/02] and berlin [and probably not in dinkelsbühl..]
vr base amsterdam from the outside in [pic by nrc.nl]
- sara is part of the kaleidoscope vr devlab ! ! !
- is vr democratizing creativity? sure: if you…
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Young film-maker beats academy award-winner
Journey: an award-winning film by Radheya Jegatheva
Congratulations are due once again to Radheya Jegatheva, a talented young film-maker from Australia on his latest triumph: he’s just beaten an Academy Award winner at his own game!
Radheya is the 17-year-old son of Second Life’s Jayjay Zifanwe of UWA fame – his also an aspiring film-maker I’ve been avidly watching since catching initial footage of his then work-in-progress piece Journey, and have previously cover his short films, the machinima piece The Tyger, in July 2016 and his live action piece for the #MyFreoStory video competition in May 2016.
Radheya Jegatheva: young filmmaker and machinima maker
However it is with Journey – a story of two astronauts stranded in space – that Radheya has once again triumphed at the Port Shorts Film Festival – and in doing so, has bested 2015 Academy Award winner Patrick Osborne at his own…
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The Ma Machinima Salon 2016 | Chantal Harvey
On October 7, my new movie ‘Activate Your Higher Mind’ is premiering in San Francisco, California. The show is an exclusive event, if you want to attend you need to contact me so I can put you on the guest list. You are very welcome! The film (machinima) is a one hour vision on Art in Virtual Reality, and perhaps a retrospect on 8 years in Second Life, but more so a very personal journey into the future.
Continue reading “The Ma Machinima Salon 2016 | Chantal Harvey”
Prim Perfect | Designing Worlds Season Finale – a look back at some great shows – now on the web!
The latest episode of Designing Worlds –the last show of the season and a retrospective of some of our favourite episodes over the last few seasons – is now on the web. DW313 – Retrospective from Richard Elen on Vimeo.
We recorded this show at the beautiful Designing Worlds cafe at the Second Life 13th Birthday Celebrations (created for us by Eliza Wierwight), and our team of Aisling Sinclair, Wildstar Beaumont and, of course, Saffia and Elrik, chose some of their personal highlights. And we have a special slideshow of images from a very special event, chosen by Wildstar Beaumont, and never shown before! Filming at the Designing Worlds Cafe at SL13B, photographed by Wildstar Beaumont Will your favourite episodes be among the ones we’ve chosen? Watch the show and find out!
Source: Prim Perfect | Designing Worlds Season Finale – a look back at some great shows – now on the web!
show #121: leftovers (svvr 2016 part2)
Check out this week’s Drax Files Radio Hour
show #121
so much fabulous “tape” was found two months after visiting svvr 2016 in san jose: a woman who was married in vr in the 90ties, a 360 video documentarian who went to chernobyl and a lot more.
this is the last show before the summer break so here is a full dose of deep thought on virtual worlds, avatars, vr and 360 video.
enjoy!
read on:
- our guest kyrill pokutnyy & his project “chornobyl360”
- where the train is headed with photogrammetry [example = matterport!]
- our guest monika jo
virtual wedding = monika is still married
monika jo getting married
the proview sr80 kaiser electrooptics headset as used by monika = buy it now!
- our guest timoni west
- our guest gunter s. thompson
![invite to gunter [date is 7/12]](https://windlightmagazine.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/invite-to-gunter.jpg)
invite to gunter [date is 7/12]
- this weekend in sl = mental health symposium hosted by virtual ability inc.
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show #120: sex and virtuality
A new draxfiles radio hour is available! This time the popular show explores sex and virtuality
show #120
and here is the topic we avoided for 119 shows = sex in virtual worlds and vr!
great guests from sl and REAL life: an interview with psychic reader and sex connosieur monavie voight starts at 9:41 & the conversation with vr porn star ela darling at 25:15.
i highly recommend listening to the entire show though for perspective and poignant commentary from guest host arduenn schwartzmann!
reading material below:
- our guest monavie voight & her unfiltered blog
monavie voight
- our guest ela darling and her entrepreneurial ventures [the big new one = cam4vr]
ela darling in special garb
is that ela at the pen in second life?
- login2life documentary featuring stroker serpentine and gentle heron
- stroker’s appearance on national geographic’s “taboo”
- free speech coalition opposes ballot measure about suing over absence of condoms
- an ai writes a screenplay!
screenshot from %22sunspring%22 movie written by ai
- terry gilliam writes better films…
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The Drax Files 38: economic empowerment in Second Life
inara covers the new Drax Files World Makers episode and interviews Drax!
Eboni Khan in Second Life
The 38th video of The Drax Files World Makers arrived on Wednesday, June 8th, focusing on fashion designer Eboni Khan, who has been designing women’s apparel for the last decade, marketing it through her Hucci brand. However, this segment isn’t simply another examination of the creative and income generation opportunities offered by Second Life. While Eboni’s experience is very much central to the video, there is a lot packed into the three-and-a-half-minute running time, which makes this another fascinating piece.
As we learn in the video, Eboni’s ability to use Second Life as a viable means of income generation wasn’t entirely a conscious decision; trained in information management and employed as an IT manager, Eboni’s world was turned upside down when she was laid off. Second Life offered her the means to work for herself and earn an income which would enable her to…
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show #119: money money money
Check out this week’s Drax File’s Radio Hour
show #119
finally drax gets educated on money – be it virtual or real!
and oh yes: we start with lindex troubles and end with gloebit solutions = an hour full of monetary theory [and solutions!].
enjoy:
and links:
- lindex in trouble [but possibly out of trouble as we go to air!]
![lindex fluctuations a few weeks back [pic by eku zhong]](https://windlightmagazine.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/lindex-fluctuations-a-few-weeks-back-pic-by-eku-zhong.jpg)
lindex fluctuations a few weeks back [pic by eku zhong]
- our guest christopher colosi [formerly collosus linden]
drax, drfran and chris colosi at upload collective at hifi hackathon april ’16
- gloebit – the virtual currency of the future?
- maria korolov from hypergrid business on gloebit
- chris’ talk at svvr 2015
- microsoft getting into mixed reality!
![ebbe at awe 2016 talking with someone [we don't know who, pic by linden lab]](https://windlightmagazine.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/ebbe-at-awe-2016-talking-with-someone-we-dont-know-who-pic-by-linden-lab.jpg)
ebbe at awe 2016 talking with someone [we don’t know who, pic by linden lab]
- 1920s berlin = 7th anniversary = ongoing in-world
seven years in berlin
the drax files radio hour [with jo yardley] is…
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show #115: lab chat numero three
Check out this week’s Drax Files Radio Hour
show #115
and here is the lab chat audio from just an hour ago = the live show was very well attended to say the least.
listen to ebbe, oz and troy spill beans on what is happening at linden:
more info on the topics discussed:
- and so much more f.e. elastic marketplace search
looking out into the crowd
full house at lab chat
ebbe and bjorn linden checking out project bento
the drax files radio hour [with jo yardley] is a weekly production of basicdrax entertainment.
the show is supported by zero-one heavy industries corporation, hextraordinary, ionic, maven homes, gizza creations, botanical, strawberry singh, abranimations, humanoid animations, aeros avatars, kahruvel design, the cube republic, the avazines publication family, {what next}, dutchie furniture, landscapes unlimited, dwarfins, fallen gods incorporated, feroshSL and death row designs.
thumbnail by justin esparza.
music by bd.
contact the show via skype draxfiles…
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show #114: ebbe (svvr 2016 part1)
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show #114
svvr 2016 – the third installment of this conference – is concluding as this show goes to air: three days of the newest vr gear in the expo hall plus panels and talks about immersive storytelling, 360 video best practices and a fireside chat with palmer luckey.
what more do you want?
well, if you are a drax files fan you want linden lab ceo ebbe altberg give you a bit more info on the just announced invite for creatots to project sansar. and that is what we have today – a brief chat in the hallway about what we can expect from this next generation virtual world.
all the other hours of interviews conducted with vr luminaries and product pitch-men/women = you have to wait another week.
here is ebbe:
and as indicated: all the other stuff – infinadeck, project alice, drax talking to timoni west from…
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The Drax Files 37: non-profits in Second Life | Inara Pey: Living in a Modem World
The Drax Files World Makers show #37 arrived on Thursday, April 21st. Once again, this is one of the shorter World Makers videos, running to just one second under 3.5 minutes.The subject this time around is an overview of Nonprofit Commons, designed to lower the barriers of access to Second Life, to create a community of practice for non-profits to explore and learn about the virtual world, and to investigate the many ways in which non-profits might utilize virtual spaces.
As such, this is something of a departure from recent World Makers segments. Rather than following a single narrative, it presents a series of sound bites for those responsible for the various organisations, groups and communities which for Nonprofit Commons, allowing them to provide a concise overview of who they are and what they do…
Source: The Drax Files 37: non-profits in Second Life | Inara Pey: Living in a Modem World
show #112: the state of vr = ready for primetime? [pt2]
Check out this week’s Drax Files Radio Hour:
show #112
…and we continue taking stock of the vr “movement” as it stands today, of course from a sl vantage point.
live from the pen vr
and that means: old grumpy pioneers complaining about new kids on the block. or not. judge for yourself:
we discussed a lot of things and were generally all over the place [what’s new?] so here is stuff to read and contextualize for you guys:
- the whole show from “the pen” in second life as video stream:
- sorry forgot to add this topic: grandfathered regions in second life = we will discuss this in more detail next week so for now = inara blogs
- high fidelity is adding stuff but justin and drax are still falling through the floor ;(
- drax in his rl beauty at a ping-pong premiere filming with a ricoh theta s 360 camera = is this vr?
- the future of…
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show #111: the state of vr = ready for primetime? [pt1]
show #111
our guests josh farkas and rob crasco discuss – when they get a word in edge-wise – what the state of consumer vr is in april 2016 vis-a-vis sl.
enjoy:
linkage below:
- our guests josh farkas from cubicle ninjas and roblem vr aka rob crasco
our one live audience member silas merlin
- fb will spy on you [when you wear oculus] and everyone is SURPRISED….
- must read = as mentioned = evgeny morozov on silicon valley running western democracies
one of the most important thinkers of today= evgeny morozov
- must read = as mentioned =aral balkan on “surveillance democracy”
aral balkan on the future we must avoid
- jo yardley on linden lab lowering tier
- madpea launches “the interview” and makes good $$$$
- drax checked it out too:
a creepy fabryflozz72 burt at the interview
- we been dissed about doing vr talkshows because sl ain’t vr [what????] –
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Prim Perfect | Designing Worlds explores art and performances at One Billion Rising 2016 – now on the web!
The latest episode of Designing Worlds – where we visit the festival for One Billion Rising in Second Life, which took place on 14th February – is now on the web..
http://www.slartist.com/embed.php?vid=824d0d3fb
Designing Worlds DW299 – One Billion Rising in Second Life 2016
Kultivate Magazine 