BREAK x DEEPDIVE was a great show. Thank you @pkpkpk.bsky.social and @deepdiveclub.bsky.social ! Replayable show: vrchat.com/home/world/w...

Friends at Anima Interactive are still getting harassed left and right by gamergate losers. If you haven't pledged yet, now is a great time to show some solidarity for this kind of storytelling in games. Even $1 helps!!

Still intrigued by plutonium core case canvas cover w/ atomic logo that @atomicanalyst.bsky.social notice in Tinian photos I posted. @wellerstein.bsky.social @nuclearanthro.bsky.social @cherylrofer.bsky.social any clue? Have Alan Carr looking into it too..

Unesco launches virtual museum of stolen cultural objects ...it will use #3D modelling and virtual reality techniques to recreate stolen cultural objects selected by Unesco member states, raising awareness about illicit trafficking. #xr #vr #mr www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

NEW: Jack Smith: "The Department of Justice Was My Home...That Home is Now On Fire." open.substack.com/pub/muellers...

Showing Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends at the Cleveland Gaming Classic today! Loving how the new item rooms have come together! #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

Deezer has released new figures showing that over a quarter of tracks delivered to them every day are now fully AI generated. Now at 28%, this is a big jump even from the beginning of this year, when it was only 10% in January, rising to 18% in April. #music apple.news/AQekAaIMvTQy...

British AI startup beats humans in international forecasting competition ManticAI ranked eighth in the Metaculus Cup, leaving some believing bots’ prediction skills could soon overtake experts #ai #forecasting www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A Sleep No More-style immersive theater experience is taking over a single hotel room in Greenwich Village this fall www.timeout.com/newyork/news... #immersiveexperiences

Upping the analog. Bowing a reel to reel. A needlessly essential dance composition. youtu.be/vaG5tVnpkwc

Viola's Room extended at the Shed in NYC through Nov 16: www.theshed.org/program/444-v...

Ruffalo: I'm reaching out to all of my brothers and sisters in the entertainment industry, to join us...They're coming after celebrities because they know we are the last ones to actually be able to have our freedom to speak. So use your platform wisely, use it generously for this movement. #NoKings

🧪Step into Marie Curie’s shoes in VR. 🧪 Experience the journey of a woman who overcame adversity to become one of the world’s greatest physicists. Solve puzzles to unlock special items. Engage in science. Get 50% off M. Curie in Meta Connect Sale. Now thru Sept 22. www.meta.com/en-gb/experi...

I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

The New Yorker’s Sam Wolson on interactive storytelling about a mother and her trans teenager leaving the U.S. The Interactives Visual Features Editor discusses the intersection of #VR, #interactive #design, #documentary work, and #reporting. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/11/n...

We went from "Oculus Connect" to "Meta Connect" to now "Horizon Connect" 🙃

Bluesky's chief operating officer, @rose.bsky.team, tells The Times the platform is going strong but engagement is more important than user numbers or monetising

RIP Robert Redford. To structure Sundance, Redford tapped George White, the exec dir of Eugene O'Neill Theater Center (National Playwrights Conference) - they had quite the friendship. Redford was a visionary and will be missed. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

#SlavaUkraini!

Yesterday I finished reading the Art and Science of Digital Compositing by Ron Brinkmann. Highly recommended for beginners to VFX (like me) or anyone interested in digital graphics in general. It builds a really solid foundation for understanding light/shadows, color, film, and digital video.

Loving days Digital work

Yesterday (13th September 2025) I found myself in London, camera slung over my shoulder, moving through a crowd I wasn’t there to join but to try and understand. That’s what I do: I observe, I photograph, and I try, however imperfectly, to make sense of the world in front of me. More👇

From Sci-Fi to Reality: New Breakthrough Could Bring #Holograms to Your Phone "...the creation of a new optoelectronic device that combines Holographic Metasurfaces (HMs) with Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs)." scitechdaily.com/from-sci-fi-...

Great first show for Hend Ayoub (my fiance!) one person show last night in NYC! Sold out and she got a standing ovation! There are two shows today: a few tickets left for 2:30PM show and literally one ticket left for 7:30PM. Show runs in NYC through Oct 11. Tickets www.59e59.org/shows/show-d...

On Monday, Peter Thiel begins a secret four-part Antichrist lecture series in San Francisco. What the hell is going on? Why all this bible doom talk? I talked to an Antichrist historian & a theologian about this outbreak of tech apocalypse hype: www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-...

Also we just got a Gallery Jam submission in and WOW www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTNq-sdFzdc

Explore Sombre Mysterious Land in This Hand-Painted Fantasy RPG The visuals by this solo dev are wonderful. #games #indiegames #gameart #illustration #RPG 80.lv/articles/exp...

Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement for authors whose books were used to train its AI model. As an author who fits that description, I’ve come around to the idea.

I forget how cool inside-out views of levels are.

Venice Immersive 2025: Everything We Saw In Italy www.uploadvr.com/venice-immer... #immersiveexperiences

Outside Quonset hut on Tinian, 1945, Harold Agnew and Luis Alvarez (standing) with Bangometer (bangmeter), instrument used for scientific measurements on first Atomic bomb drop over Japan. Inside Quonset hut: bangmeters stored against wall.

Teaching Sept. 11 Using Virtual Reality Seeking a way to convey the import of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to students too young to remember them, Adam M. McMahon writes that he turned to virtual reality. #xr #vr #mr #September11 #edtech www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

🧵 ahead! In the first week of my Directing for Virtual Reality class at @brooklyncollege.bsky.social, I had my students watch Our Precious Autumn by @khangaluwu.bsky.social (watch here: shorturl.at/R9dd4). The film won Best VR Film at Raindance Immersive this year, and it’s a powerful, beautiful

Here are two open-source apps that I use daily. [MRV2[ is a really good movie/sequence player which supports many formats incl EXR, Quicktime, Prores... github.com/ggarra13/mrv2 [F3D] is a great 3D viewer that supports many formats, such as USD, ABC, and FBX... github.com/f3d-app/f3d #opensource

An artist known as t_erenoa is developing a mesh deformation tool for Unity, which might make life easier for VRChat and VTuber creators. #VRChat #unity3d 80.lv/articles/che...

HORRIBLE. SICKENING. UNACCEPTABLE. In a democracy we settle our differences with words, ideas & actions, not hatred, guns & violence. #ShameOnUS

IBC 2025 Preview: Immersive and interactive experiences take center stage #xr #vr #mr #ar #interactive #immersivestorytelling #virtualproduction www.newscaststudio.com/2025/09/04/i...

Porsche Used Colocated Apple Vision Pro Headsets To Showcase Its New Drivetrain www.uploadvr.com/porsche-appl... #avp #spatialcomputing

Had enough of Unity’s half-serialized, half-GetComponent dependency spaghetti creeping into every class? 🍝🙅🏻‍♂️ Saneject injects dependencies at editor-time: clean API, declarative rules, full Inspector visibility. No runtime container, no second lifecycle. #Unity #GameDev #IndieDev #OpenSource

At this point abolishing ICE and reforming the Supreme Court have to be non-negotiables for every 2028 Dem.

Some archival footage of Raw Green Rust playing our abstract glitch dub at @centralaspace.bsky.social in March 2022 for @beastmusic.bsky.social #computermusic #improv

Doing some prep work with Professor Mary Dobson before her students come to the ET-Lab @ Georgian College It’s difficult to appreciate the size and quality of these 3D models from photos. In #augmentedreality they look spectacular.

Your Next Therapist Could be a Video Game or a Wearable and It Might Actually Work An inside look at a new wave of evidence-backed digital therapies. #xr #vr #mr #wearables #videogames #therapy #healthtech #metaverse #ai www.zmescience.com/science/news...

Trump wants people scared-instead Chicago and DC punched him in the face! My new article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trump-want...

#ANewHope 🙏

As machines develop increasingly sophisticated aesthetic capabilities, art schools must decide whether they will serve as bastions of human-only creativity, laboratories for human-machine collaboration, or something entirely new. #arteducation open.substack.com/pub/richardf...

Designing wonder: the emerging role of immersive story ideators "...where these traditions intersect, demanding hybrid expertise that can orchestrate story, space, and technology into experiences that leave lasting emotional impact." #xr #vr #mr #ar blooloop.com/immersive/op...

I've been part of @crypticglasgow.bsky.social Cryptic Nights programme twice. Really helpful and rewarding experience both times!

This game sounds enchanting! From @tabletopquester.bsky.social #boardgames tabletopquester.com/luthier-the-...