I still think that a purely audio version of AR and VR has the potential to become a huge deal, way more than current tracking seems to suggest.
Imagine having the audio of this working whilst you walk around the modern city, and it interacting as you move
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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.
More immediate updates are available on Snapchat & Instagram.
“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.”
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“No, Homer, very few cartoons go out live, it’s a terrible strain on the animator’s wrist.”
Further to my experimenting in Instagram Stories, I fired up the old Snapchat account and am now posting (?) there regularly.
I’m trying to keep the two streams populate with separate content, and indeed, it is already very clear the difference in form. Instagram video quality is higher, so animation (well, my kind of animation anyway) does break up so badly in the compression. Also Instagram doesn’t massively foreground when you have loaded something from the camera roll, any manipulated or animated video gets put in a frame in Snapchat.
Follow me on Snapchat and Instagram, and see what you think.
VR will not get mainstream until mobile works with it fluently.
Paul Greer 