Virtual Reality

Mashing the Real and the Virtual

Feb 13th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Cross Media, Events, Locative, Media Personalizing, Mixed Reality, Transformation, Virtual Reality, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0

I am very interested in Mixed or Cross Reality advances at the moment. Over the past 6 months there have been some great trials and even a few commercial enterprises set up including Total Immersion. But a couple of trials caught our attention in the last couple of weeks. The first (virtual into real) in [...]

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1 iFob Me Off 2 Chasing the Dragon 3 Second Skin

Feb 13th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Brands, Cross Media, Devices, Locative, On-demand, Participatory Media, Story Telling, Virtual Reality, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, iphone

1 iFob Me Off

I have had a working phone iPhone in Oz now for a few months - currently jailbroken 1.1.2’s - for R&D purposes only
One of my favourite applications is ‘installer’ which is the portal to a vast array of free, community created, grass roots applications. One popped up yesterday in Recent [...]

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1 MR Killer App, 2 iPhone Home 3 Mirror Mirror

Feb 13th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Creativity, Cross Media, Devices, Innovation, Mixed Reality, Mobile, On-demand, Virtual Reality, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0, iphone, viral

1 Mixed Reality Killer App
OK a ‘give us your comment’ competition. Below an oldie but goody clip from CeBit 2006 but what do you think is the main killer application for this particular synchronous interface? - (no sneaking ideas by reading the hundreds of comments on it’s YouTube page!).
2 iPhone Home

Above ‘me browsing the lamp [...]

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Speaking at Belgium Cross-Media Storytelling Conference

Nov 23rd, 2007 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Conference, Cross Media, Events, Media Personalizing, Mixed Reality, On-demand, Social Issues & Privacy, Story Telling, Virtual Reality, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

Just arrived in Mechelen, a lovely Belgium historical centre going back to 1200 or so (photo left just taken by me, ten minutes ago!). After the usual gruelling 21+ hour flight from Sydney to Europe I had lunch with Annet Daems (who is running the conference) and we are both ready for two days of [...]

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Significant Steps to Mixed-Media, Cross-Reality

Oct 25th, 2007 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Brands, Creativity, Cross Media, Events, Games, Mixed Reality, Personalization, Second Life, Social Networks, Story Telling, Transformation, Virtual Reality, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0

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As usual I feel so guilty about not blogging as much as I should - partly due to just producing so much…starting to believe the new adage that someone mentioned to me a couple of years ago - “those who don’ t produce, blog” - that might muster up a comment or two
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Corporations in Social Virtual Worlds - Psychopaths or Welcome Friends?

Sep 3rd, 2007 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Brands, Business, Creativity, Featured Articles, Media Personalizing, Mixed Reality, Personalization, Profiling, Psychology, Second Life, Social Networks, Social Software, Story Telling, Virtual Reality, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0

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Virtual Worlds Necessitate Corporations Develop Personality followed by Gary’s top 15 tips to becoming human in the metaverse (and 2D socio-nets).
I have been doing a lot of work moving brands, properties and companies into Second Life recently and in the process I am often forcibly reminded of the divide that naturally exists, in these new [...]

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The Mixed Reality Perfect Storm

Jun 5th, 2007 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Brands, Creativity, Cross Media, Events, Games, Innovation, Mixed Reality, Production, Revolution, Second Life, Social Software, TV, Transformation, Virtual Reality, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0

“Mixed Reality is the merging of real world and virtual worlds to produce new environments where physical and digital objects can co-exist and interact in real-time.” Wikipedia

“I think we are really approaching a perfect storm, a mixed reality perfect storm, because we are seeing several things happening. The first one is a long history of [...]

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Brand and Media Survival Guide to Virtual Worlds - talk transcript

May 6th, 2007 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Brands, Distribution, Games, Media Personalizing, Mixed Reality, On-demand, Profiling, Revolution, Second Life, Social Software, Targeting, Transformation, Virtual Reality, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

NOTE: Based on my sticky post ‘The Brand Owners Guide to Joining the Metaverse“.
As promised a rough transcript of my keynote talk to CeBit last week based on my experience of actually building some Second Life sims, talking to those who use them and creating branded environments that have more usage than any others inworld, [...]

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Virtually There - 04 Milia 2007 Vignettes

Apr 21st, 2007 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Advertising, Alternate Reality, Brands, Creativity, Cross Media, Distribution, Events, Games, Innovation, Interactivity, Media Personalizing, Mixed Reality, On-demand, Personalization, Portals, Production, Revolution, Second Life, Story Telling, Targeting, Virtual Reality, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0

YAY! Jackie my LAMP cohort and Paul Bennun (a new LAMP mentor on the next lab in Tas) won their development awards categories! more later…Writing this on various jetlagged Europe to Australia plane hops so excuse any fragmentation of style – will be tidying and adding links and speakers quotations (to bring it to life) [...]

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Witnessing the Birth of An Entertainment Form

Dec 6th, 2006 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Brands, Creativity, Cross Media, Distribution, Divergence, Events, Featured Articles, Games, Innovation, Interactive TV, On-demand, Production, Second Life, Social Software, TV, Transformation, Virtual Reality, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

The Relentless March of Channels and Formats into Second Life

Rather than just referring to the many standard press articles about the growing number of companies or formats that are setting up in Second Life (the media’s favourite MUVE at the moment) I have been ‘living it’ so to speak. My inworld blog JustVirtual provides an [...]

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TV formats in Shared Spaces, Virtual “Big Brother”

Nov 7th, 2006 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Brands, Creativity, Events, Games, Production, Revolution, Second Life, TV, Virtual Reality, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0

Been hit by a server hacker in London today so would have blogged about this earlier this morning! I have talked before about TV branded virtual worlds and what I called Merged-Media Entertainment, those strange synched and non synched, virtual/real cross-over entertainment formats that have great potential. Anyway the plot thickens as yet another [...]

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The Real Alternate Reality in Future Social Networks

Oct 22nd, 2006 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Creativity, Divergence, Innovation, Media Personalizing, Personalization, Revolution, Second Life, Social Issues & Privacy, Virtual Reality, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0

Still catching up with drafts and this one is more about my editing than my own crystal ball gazing. I love predictions about the way we will be interacting in the future especially when we are getting a little sniff of them in the present day, eg: web 3.0. So I selected, last month, some [...]

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TV property branded Virtual Worlds - the beginning

Sep 26th, 2006 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Advertising, Brands, Cross Media, Distribution, Divergence, Events, Games, Media Personalizing, Personalization, Portals, Revolution, Social Software, TV, Transformation, Virtual Reality, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0

I was on a Portable Content Symposium panel last night “Content with your content? How the convergence of media is changing everything we know”. A fellow panelist Ean Thorley (Exec prod at MTV Australia) briefly referred to a new MTV virtual space Laguna Beach - when we started talking about the impact web 3.0 on [...]

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