IMAGINED

IMAGINED-SPACES: (/ɪˈmadʒɪn/) (speɪs/) (noun)
Autodesk Maya, Arnold, Unity, virtual realities, imagined realities, 360 Video, computer graphics, rendering, augmented environments, realtime processing.

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
– William Blake

#6DoF

Link | | Paul Greer

Six degrees of freedom (6DoF) refers to the freedom of movement of a rigid body in three-dimensional space. Specifically, the body is free to change position as forward/backward (surge), up/down (heave), left/right (sway) translation in three perpendicular axes, combined with changes in orientation through rotation about three perpendicular axes, often termed pitch, yaw, and roll.

– wiki

This is something that will be crucial to any future plans of VR, AR and MR.

As a CGI artist I am fluent with navigating myself around a 3D space using a Wacom pen and a combination of customised button control and use of the ctrl/alt keys. But I was myself unfamiliar with this terminology which seems to be at the core of much development at the moment.

Obviously 360 video cannot provide full 6DoF so will naturally settle itself as different kind of medium.

SculpTogether

Link | | Paul Greer

Multiplatform social drawing tool.

VR is an isolating experience so the idea of using it to bring people together is really promising.

 

SculpTogether lets users on all platforms (GearVR, Rift, Vive, 2D) make 3D drawings and simple sculptures together. Users have hundreds of colors and hues to create with as they draw ribbons in mid-air and place primitive shapes in whatever orientation they wish.

via prostheticknowledge

67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Link | | Paul Greer

 

“A compilation of the brightest outbursts seen at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by Rosetta’s Osiris (Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System ) narrow-angle camera and navigation camera between July and September 2015. After nearly two years apart, Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft will join its stranded robot probe Philae on 30 September on the icy surface of the comet.”

Via

The Virtual Garden by Matthew Mauk

Video | | Paul Greer

My summer project creating an art exhibit using the Vive virtual reality system and Google’s TiltBrush. The future of education, not only in art, but across all disciplines will be influenced by virtual reality.

by Matthew Mauk

found via the Nearsightedmonkey who added:

I love the shots of people ‘in the garden’ — the way their bodies behave while they are seeing things that aren’t otherwise there.  They are not only able to ‘see’ these images, they can put their heads inside of them.

 

“…like “Rite of Spring” in Disney’s Fantasia … our internal devils may destroy and renew us through the technological overload we’ve invoked.”

Quote | | Paul Greer

“Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It’s going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.”

— J.G.Ballard (April 1982)

A Game of You

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“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds… Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”

— Neil Gaiman