Lil Nas X Becomes Second Artist to Bring Augmented Reality to His Tour
... Upon arrival, fans can scan the tangible Playbill handed out at entry to enter the creative world of Montero, the 2021 debut album from Nas. A voice message accompanies the visuals and explains what fans are about to see throughout the show. During the 70-minute performance, fans can use the app to see digital enhancements, such as a cocoon in act one, butterflies in act two and eventually Nas himself during the final third act. ...
Meanwhile, Jack Harlow’s tour kicked off Sept. 5 and features a commerce experience that allows fans to skip the line and shop his tour merch directly from his Snapchat profile. In addition, he’s offering a creative experience (a jet appears through AR above the stage during “First Class”) and a selfie experience (fans can use a lens that applies the artist’s signature sunglasses to their face). ...
See the full story here: https://www.billboard.com/business/touring/lil-nas-x-long-live-montero-tour-ar-experience-1235135634/
Today is Disney+ Day, and, as part of its perks, the company is offering Disney+ subscribers a new AR experience in conjunction with the short film “Remembering,” starring and produced by “Captain Marvel” Brie Larson and directed and written by filmmaker Elijah Allan-Blitz. The eight-minute-long movie features a companion augmented reality app that allows users to scan their TV with an iOS device to watch an extension of the movie on the small screen. ...
To engage with the AR experience, Disney+ viewers will scan a QR code on their TV screen that allows them to download the “Remembering: The AR Experience” app, designed by technology studio Magnopus and Walt Disney StudioLab, on their iPhones or iPads. Users can also visit disney.com/remembering or search the App Store to find the new app. ...
Bizarre Muzzle Microphone Keeps Your Mouth in the Metaverse
... Unlike VR headsets, which strap to the head and cover a user’s eyes, the mutalk straps to the head and sits over the user’s mouth. Inside the mutalk is a microphone and Bluetooth hardware which picks up the user’s voice and transmits it wirelessly to other devices like a smartphone or a gaming console. What differentiates it from other wireless microphones is that the mutalk traps and contains all of the sounds coming out of the user’s mouth, or at least most of them, as it’s promised to reduce the intensity of high-frequency sounds (voices) by about 30-decibels. ...
See the full story here: https://gizmodo.com/muzzle-microphone-headset-mutalk-noise-isolating-ar-vr-1849511121
An AR experience that speaks ‘truth to power’
... Next week will see the reveal of award winning public arts company Aswarm’s Holding The Flame, a prominent AR-Statue of civil rights campaigner Marcia Rigg.
Led by McIntyre-Burnie, the statue was specifically created to be in dialogue with its site – the square outside Brixton Police station; a place significant both for its role in the Brixton uprisings of 1981, and for Marcia’s brother Sean Rigg, who died in Police custody there in 2008, in circumstances resonant with George Floyd. ...
The App is audio visual, they can listen to Marcia speak to the emotions and intentions embodied in her statue and as the statue appears so does the sound of her breath; “for this is not a statue of someone who can no-longer breathe”. ...
Holding The Flame will mark the culmination of a year-long programme of events commissioned by 81 Acts of Exuberant Defiance, an initiative designed to raise questions and stimulate discussion about the state of race relations 40 years on from the 1981 Brixton Uprisings. ...
See the full story here: https://www.voice-online.co.uk/entertainment/2022/09/06/an-ar-experience-that-speaks-truth-to-power/
The World’s First Virtual Reality Avatar Fashion Week Is On The Metaverse This Week
The Somnium Space Fashion Week will be held in association with Teslasuit, in Prague physically but also in the Somnium Space Metaverse – which means it’s a phygital event (physical and digital).
This event will change the way fashion is presented to the public because it allows people from all over the world to connect in one location simultaneously – using the newest XR technologies on the market including Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Full Body Trackers and Holograms. ...
To showcase the capabilities of Somnium Space platform during the opening mixed reality event on September 7th in Prague’s VR Play Park, models will be wearing full body tracking and full body haptic Teslasuits, VR headsets and gloves. Their digital avatars, at the same time, will be walking on the virtual catwalk in a newly-built NFT Fashion World. Supported by panel discussions and a physical fashion show, this phygital event will be held over the week. ...
How can you join in?
Anyone can witness this historical moment for the tech and fashion industry by joining the Somnium Space Fashion Week online here. Livestream starts on the 7th September at 16:00 CEST / 15:00 GMT via Somnium Space in VR or 2D. ...
See the full story here: https://womenlovetech.com/the-worlds-first-virtual-reality-avatar-fashion-week-is-on-the-metaverse-this-week/
Olafur Eliasson launches a virtual reality work and NFT commissioned by MetaKovan—the man who paid $69.3m for ‘that’ Beeple
The NFT of Your view matter is a one-off, non-editioned, token created for MetaKovan—its ownership and provenance captured on a permanent ledger on the blockchain—and has been minted on Polkadot, a platform regarded as having the lowest total electricity consumption and total carbon emissions-per-year of all crypto platforms.
Being conscious of the environmental cost of minting NFTs is, Eliasson says, of enormous importance, and something that he discussed with MetaKovan. ...
AR and VR versions of the piece will be available free to view on the Acute Art app and via a link for viewing on a computer or in a VR headset. ...
See the full story here: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/09/05/olafur-eliasson-launches-a-virtual-reality-work-and-nft-commissioned-by-metakovanthe-man-who-paid-693m-for-that-beeple
