It’s a steal:
I was invited along to a ‘design tourism’ symposium on Wednesday. It occurred to me there that ‘serious games’ could link up with tourism promotion, perhaps through re-creating a place as a game-like 3D environment. Getting to know a location beforehand, by ‘walking’ freely around it, would later make for a far less stressful and more interesting actual visit. And then I though… could a place be “stolen”? I think it could. A team of people with sonic tape-measures, sketchbooks and digital camera
It’s a steal (stealing spaces ‘virtually’)
Get DAZ Studio, free and full-version:
3D people creation, content, and community.
3D people creation, content, and community.
Pingback
by D’log :: blogging non-stop since 2000 » Gallerists and content
11 Jul 2006 at 07:39
[…] With the increasingly possibility that wideband / sophisticated HD interactive multimedia / virtual spaces will all one day come together to offer a gallery-like immersive experience, visual artists should be wary of allowing sophisticated production teams to ‘capture’ their show — unless they get a fair cut of any long-term ad revenue or other income possibilities. Some aspects of access to the Long Tail could end up dampening demand for future shows by artists. You can imagine a gallerist in five years time, considering a list of possible touring shows to host: “oh, no-one wants to see a real show by her, they’ve all seen that HD multicast of her last one”. But, as I keep telling my students, the real actual artwork is always substantially different from even the best mediated versions. […]
Pingback
by D’log :: blogging non-stop since 2000 » Microsoft Photosynth
31 Jul 2006 at 11:52
[…] This time last years I blogged about the potential to ‘capture’ places in digital form. Now Microsoft is developing Microsoft Photosynth to enable this. Of course, such tools could also be used for interior spaces such as galleries. And doubtless software companies like the makers of iClone will be happy to prove a third-party plug-in for Photosynth v1.0, that will easily insert a 3D talking/walking virtual “tour guide” or “lecturer” into the 3D environment. There’s an interesting potential here, for teachers and artists to easily get into creating 3D “walkable” environments with just a pocket digicam and a microphone. And for tourist boards to easily create a “walk our streets before you visit” familiarisation package for potential visitors. […]