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This was discussed today on KPFK's Digital Village today...
In other news of a similar vien, also from Digital Village:
http://www.switched.com/2007/08/02/chinese-video-game-kills-corrupt-politicians/
or,
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/08/03/1185648104916.html
Now if someone would just translate that to Spanish for Santa Ana...
Or Mexico.
And, on a somewhat related note: (from a message I posted on a locally-based Furry group)
Achtung! Atención! Attention! Furries into 2nd Life, expecially the
design/career end:
www.evryx.com
www.mamoca.com - http://www.mamoca.com/movie_3.html
These are a couple of new local - Santa Ana area - startups with
Venture Capital funding who are doing things directly relevant to the
furry scene. Each of these companies was featured with over a page of
coverage in the Marketplace section of the OC Register in the past
couple weeks. I spoke to the CEOs of both companies and they seemed
really sharp and with it. Each of these companies potentially
represents major opportunity for people such as furries who are into
graphics, animation, avatars, etc.
Evryx has a system by which you can either enter a photo online and
see if there is a match to it, using high-power image recognition tech
on the Evryx server, or submit a photo so that other people can do the
same. This includes pictures of people's faces, but is designed to
allow a match to trigger a link, as to a marketing site or database.
However, the software is in place for you to also do the same from
your picture cellphone! So, in theory, you could snap a pic of
someone who looked attractive, dangerous, whatever, and get back a
link to the actual identity of the person - or at least how to email
them, assuming a match.
For more info on the likely future of this tech, you may want to read
HUGO Award Winning Vernor Vinge's new novel "Rainbows End." (and,
yes, there is no apostrophe in Rainbows.)
MaMoCa is a totally different tech, which uses a projected light grid
at about 1cm per grid space to directly substitute for the marker
system used for 3D motion capture for movies such as Lord of the
Rings - e.g., Golum. MaMoCa can generate the wireframe 3D model in
realtime at high res. When I spoke to the CEO last week, he said that
it should be online for use in generating avatars and other objects in
Second Life and other similar environments within a year.
Meanwhile, as both these companies are raw startups - especially
MaMoCa, which I think has been pretty much a one-man show - there is a
major potential for employment by either of them as well as for Beta
Testors and anciliary product development. Those with
experience in 2nd Life, or software development, or graphic art may
want to contact these companies. The CEO of MaMoCa said that he is
very interested in getting qualified Beta Testors for his 3D
capture/modeling system. Getting in the door now could pay off
bigtime.
Mention me if you want, as I think I got off on the right foot this
time with these guys: Phil Osborn
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