I had a really good day today. After an early call and a quick trip to the office, Kenny Lauer and I went to the Linden Labs offices at Mountain View to visit my old colleague Dave Kamalsky. Dave and first met when I ran one of the first major IBM events in Second Life for The Greater IBM Connection. Dave helped me setup the event on Almden island, which is there to this day, although now it’s a museum. I’ve met Dave virtually many times in Second Life, but until today, never in-person.
Dave gave us a quick tour of the office. The highlights were the Guitar Hero Wii setup and the cocktail trolley, which would be enough to make most techies weep with envy. We popped our for a pizza at lunchtime and discussed all kindsa things including live rendered films, and the effect of the colour blue (!) (it makes you more creative!)
Thanks Dave! Looking forward to talking again soon.
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May 28, 2009 at 4:11 pm
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May 29, 2009 at 3:44 am
Opensource Obscure
Whoa, so cool. And that “live rendered films” reference sounds really interesting to me, could you please elaborate a bit more what you refer to?
May 29, 2009 at 2:06 pm
kevinaires
A live rendered film would be where a computer generated film (toy story, beoweolf for example), could be rendered live instead of in advance. That would allow you to perhaps watch from different angles, change details – e.g. advertisements and product placement based on the audience or possibly even reskin the film. For example Shakespeare is often played in different eras to when the original play was set. You could change the costumes etc. on the fly.
May 29, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Opensource Obscure
Thanks for the explanation. This is a topic I’m heavily interested to. I think this is totally going to happen.
I sometimes feel that Second Life is the embryo stage of this idea. Hide the graphical interface (CTRL ALT F1), learn to use a Spacenavigator to move your camera while at the same time you move your avatar, go to a suggestive place, get a powerful computer so you can raise graphical settings to the maximum – and you get something along the lines of a real-time, customized movie where you’re both actor, director and cameraman.
I’m collecting some articles about these concepts on my delicious page under the ugly “editable-movie” tag:
http://delicious.com/oobscure/editable-movie
May 29, 2009 at 5:34 pm
kevinaires
I’m with you – I had exactly the setup you describe. Here’s a video I took for an IBM internal event: Human Capital Management University:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DheG1ixV5C4 click HD to see it in hi res. I used a 3GHzquad core, liquid cooled desktop gaming rig and space navigator.