Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Blue Mars: Average User Experience (rev 5664)
Blue Mars revision 5664, as rendered on a Dell Inspiron 530, Dual Core, E6550 @ 2.33 GHz, 3.0 GB of Memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS.
A vast improvement over the previous revision.
Well done, and keep those improvements coming!
Music provided by Magnatune.
The track is Hagagatan by the Eternal Jazz Project
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Blue Mars: The Average User Experience
Blue Mars as rendered on a Dell Inspiron 530, Dual Core, E6550 @ 2.33 GHz, 3.0 GB of Memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS. Will Blue Mars be accessible and enjoyable for the average user, or will it require gaming computers that only a few can afford in the current economy?
Friday, May 22, 2009
Entertainment on a budget
Linden Labs overlooks an expanding market.
They should cater part of their marketing costs toward appealing to the dollar conscious unemployed.
If you already enjoy online games and need to save money, Second Life is a great means to do a variety of things free-of-charge or on a shoestring budget. Even when I was gainfully employed, SL is cost-effective for things like sailing or flying. Imagine the cost of Real Life flying. G'ah! Just ground school alone is costly!
Unless you MUST go to a Real Life concert for the "experience" - it beats spending on a RL music event. Personally I find crowds and parking a pain in the arse, especially at my curmudgeonly age. I save on the cost of fuel and time. And if I cared about being "green" as is the fashion these days - I'd use that as a good selling point, too. Second Life reduces your carbon-whatever.
Yes you can fly an airplane, sail a ship, go to a club, listen to live independent music, meet and chat with science-fiction authors at a book discussion group, build things you can sell to others, role-play historic sims like the Roman Empire - or even destroy a Nazi V2 Rocket base. Some people dogfight in epic air combat, others engage in large-scale naval battles. Then you can create inworld videos and blog about your grand adventures.
There's much to see and do in a virtual world. Have you ever wanted to see a Jules Verne-like Victorian setting? Ever wanted to see a world as imagined in the movie Bladerunner? Ever wanted to be a DJ? Ever wanted to play live music to an international audience? You can do ALL this in a few hours (DISCLAIMER: assuming everything is working when you're online. Heh!)
This is the non-sexual Second Life the mainstream media usually ignores. It's a virtual sandbox and playground.
Oh wait! I know what LL will say: There's no BIG MONEY in the unemployed. But there ARE big numbers. Unfortunately.
They should cater part of their marketing costs toward appealing to the dollar conscious unemployed.
If you already enjoy online games and need to save money, Second Life is a great means to do a variety of things free-of-charge or on a shoestring budget. Even when I was gainfully employed, SL is cost-effective for things like sailing or flying. Imagine the cost of Real Life flying. G'ah! Just ground school alone is costly!
Unless you MUST go to a Real Life concert for the "experience" - it beats spending on a RL music event. Personally I find crowds and parking a pain in the arse, especially at my curmudgeonly age. I save on the cost of fuel and time. And if I cared about being "green" as is the fashion these days - I'd use that as a good selling point, too. Second Life reduces your carbon-whatever.
Yes you can fly an airplane, sail a ship, go to a club, listen to live independent music, meet and chat with science-fiction authors at a book discussion group, build things you can sell to others, role-play historic sims like the Roman Empire - or even destroy a Nazi V2 Rocket base. Some people dogfight in epic air combat, others engage in large-scale naval battles. Then you can create inworld videos and blog about your grand adventures.
There's much to see and do in a virtual world. Have you ever wanted to see a Jules Verne-like Victorian setting? Ever wanted to see a world as imagined in the movie Bladerunner? Ever wanted to be a DJ? Ever wanted to play live music to an international audience? You can do ALL this in a few hours (DISCLAIMER: assuming everything is working when you're online. Heh!)
This is the non-sexual Second Life the mainstream media usually ignores. It's a virtual sandbox and playground.
Oh wait! I know what LL will say: There's no BIG MONEY in the unemployed. But there ARE big numbers. Unfortunately.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
IL-2 Machinima Test
An experimental machinima from Zoe Connolly and Phineas Messmer using IL-2 Sturmovik 1946. Zoe and Phin are Second Life avatars venturing in the alternate gaming platform of IL-2 for the Royal Caledon Air Force (RCAF) and Extropia Defense Force (EDF).
Monday, October 6, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Song by VNV Nation, Film by Andy Huang
I first saw this on Zoe's blog but I'm so intrigued by this I'm posting it here as well. An amazing mashup of song and video.
elektricc wrote: "It's a mix between the great animotion of Andy Huang`s dollface and a new Song of VNV Nations CD Judgement. Even if it`s not a official Version it looks like it belong together...greetings from a fan."
elektricc wrote: "It's a mix between the great animotion of Andy Huang`s dollface and a new Song of VNV Nations CD Judgement. Even if it`s not a official Version it looks like it belong together...greetings from a fan."
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Random YouTube Video: Protest against sex tourism in Ukraine
This is supposed to be a protest against prostitution and sex tourism in Ukraine.
(scratches head) At least I think so...
(scratches head) At least I think so...
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