Recoil launches new 5-D virtual reality experience
(Valdosta, GA) Recoil Trampoline Park launched phase three of its expansion Friday with a new immersive experience.
Hyperdeck is an all-new immersive, virtual reality experience at Recoil in Valdosta. Up to four players enter into a virtual world featuring a full-motion floor and multi-sensory effects like strong winds, heat and earth-rattling movements. The game continues outside as spectators help or challenge players via tablets located around the exterior of the Hyperdeck station.
Trent Coggins, owner, said, “Hyperdeck is already a hit. There was a line as soon as we fired it up today and the employees came in just to try it the night before.”
Coggins said, this type of virtual experience is one of fewer than 15 in the U.S. ...
Creative Works Game Description:
Dreamsaver — "A group of Dreamsavers travel into a child's dream to deliver an epiphany and are stopped by a nightmare. Multiple endings and a variety of blasters and power-ups make for a rich experience that evolves with the players. Length: 10 minutes."
H.A.I.R.: "H.A.I.R. imagines a world where a 1980s guitar hero becomes a villain in a post-apocalyptic world. Players fly through the night collecting crystals and destroying robotic henchmen. Breathtaking environments, spine-tingling effects, and a soaring soundtrack make H.A.I.R. one sweet ride. Length: 10 minutes." ...
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Samsung develops artificial muscle actuators for immersive VR, AR
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Anthony Hopkins feature film distributed as NFT
Zero Contact starring Anthony Hopkins as a tech titan will be initially released as an NFT. LA-based start-up VUELE owns complete intellectual property on the productions and boasts that it’s:
“the first direct-to-consumer, full-length feature film NFT viewing and distribution platform.”
VUELE auctions off early access to the film plus perks and incremental distribution with more perks until it is transferred to traditional distribution channels and streamers.
See the offer here: https://vuele.io
Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022
From Shelly Palmer's daily news email.
Whether or not you have teenage children – even if you don't know a teenager – you must read the results of the latest Pew Research Center survey, Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022, which found that 95 percent of 13- to 17-year-olds have access to a smartphone and 46 percent of them say they are "almost constantly" online. That's up from 24 percent from eight years ago.
Pew researchers surveyed 1,316 teens in April 2022. More than half (54 percent) said it would be difficult for them to give up social media, especially for the older respondents aged 15 to 17.
These results are not surprising. However, as presented, the survey offers a directional understanding of just how difficult it is going to be to rein in social media addiction, online bullying, unintentional propagation of misinformation at scale, and (of course) weaponized information.
See the research study here: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/08/10/teens-social-media-and-technology-2022/?ck_subscriber_id=958930034&utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Teen+Social+Media+Usage+Doubles%20-%208744296
The ‘Nonsense Language’ That Could Subvert Image Synthesis Moderation Systems
New research from Columbia university suggests that the safeguards that prevent image synthesis models such as DALL-E 2, Imagen and Parti from being able to output damaging or controversial imagery are susceptible to a kind of adversarial attack that involves ‘made up’ words.
The author has developed two approaches that can potentially override the content moderation measures in an image synthesis system, and has found that they are remarkably robust even across different architectures, indicating that the weakness is more than just systemic, and may key on some of the most fundamental principle of text-to-image synthesis. ...
The first, and the stronger of the two, is called macaronic prompting. The term ‘macaronic’ originally refers to a mixture of multiple languages, as found in Esperanto or Unwinese. Perhaps the most culturally-diffused example would be Urdu-English, a type of ‘code mixing’ common in Pakistan, which quite freely mixes English nouns and Urdu suffixes. ...
Cryptic Language in DALL-E 2
It has been suggested before that the gibberish that DALL-E 2 outputs whenever it tries to depict written language could in itself be a ‘hidden vocabulary’. However the prior research into this mysterious language has not offered any way to develop nonce strings that can summon up specific imagery. ...
See the full story here: https://www.unite.ai/the-nonsense-language-that-could-subvert-image-synthesis-moderation-systems/
