Posts Tagged ‘ media entertainment ’

Playstation 3 Home First Use In Videos

Dec 14th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Games, Marketing, Media Personalizing, Social Media, Virtual Worlds

I haven’t been able to log into Sony’s PS3 home yet but have been fascinated in the trickle of videos onto YouTube showing first usage in the past two days. There are many posts over the last 2 years about PS3Home on this blog and it is great to finally see it come out of [...]

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The Dawn of Mixed Reality and it’s Participatory Audience

Nov 12th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Blended Reality, Cross Reality, Games, Interactive TV, LAMP, Last Post, Media Personalizing, Mixed Reality, Virtual Reality, Web 3.0

What is Mixed Reality, why is it relevant and has TV become it’s background medium of choice for larger numbers of media consumers who around the world are spending more time in online pursuits than glued to the content breaks in-between the advertising slots of commercial TV. How will TV survive in a world where [...]

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The Future of Social Media Entertainment

Oct 26th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Advertising, Brands, Lead Article, Media Personalizing, Social Media, Web 2.0

I gave an early 9-10.15am keynote presentation to the trendy young filmmaker folk at SPAA fringe on Saturday. It was received well by all who I spoke to and on the grapevine. It built on the many case studies shown by Peter Broderick in his two sessions highlighting a range of filmmakers selling DVDs off [...]

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My Upcoming Presentations - SPAA Fringe, SPAA, DebateIT, Social Networking and more…

Oct 15th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Events, Media Personalizing, personal

Been a bit lapse in not posting other talks I have been giving around Oz so these are just in time. A range from Cross-Social-Media, Mixed Reality, Games/Film and the Creative Web…

Thursday 23rd October, 2008  - DebateIT: All the web’s a stage!
Join us as we debate whether the internet is helping unleash creativity. What opportunities [...]

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Games and Virtual Worlds: a new frontier of experience

Sep 23rd, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Education, Last Post, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0

OK I had better blog this ‘press release‘ copied below which quotes me, but also as I am heavily involved in the creation of these courses and still running LAMP (the innovation unit at AFTRS). Frankly it is one of the best things to happen in Australian industry education for the last three years that [...]

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Social Media Entertainment, Cool or Too Hot to Handle?

Sep 2nd, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Cross Media, LAMP, Last Post, On-demand, Participatory Media, Social Media, TV, viral

Hats off to the producers, Ellenor and Marcus, of this social, cross-media show. Scorched - Australia’s first ‘what-if’ disaster telemovie with a few enhancements. Did they get their fingers burnt, is it really over and was it a little too scarey?

As I have mentioned before in various articles sized posts on this blog and my [...]

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Choose Your Own Adventure, Games and Virtual Worlds at AFTRS

Aug 25th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Cross Media, Education, Games, LAMP

“Make Games and Virtual Worlds at Australian Film, TV and Radio School” - OK time to wear that other hat as Director of the Laboratory for Advanced Media Production at AFTRS and plug some of the cool new courses we are delivering in 6 months time.
CREATE ENTERTAINMENT EXPERIENCES OF THE FUTURE
Discover new opportunities to express [...]

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