Antonio (aka skribe) has recently recovered from pleural empyema caused by pneumonia. He is a film-maker, digital media consultant and social media producer. skribe's clients have included CBS, Evian, P&G, Discovery Networks, Pernod Ricard and American Express. When he is not being a dad to his two boys he likes to pretend that he is a capable PC gamer.
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This is very impressive. I watched this on my laptop and in the teleconferencing scene I was able to identify each of the speakers as easily as the test subject. Just think of the possibilities for virtual worlds or gaming. Most first-person shooter (FPS) gamers play with headphones because they need to know if someone is sneaking up on them from behind. There’s actually a whole range of surround-sound headphones aimed specifically at FPS gamers. This technology could revolutionise the entire industry.
I really love the concepts in this video. I suspect we’ll see a lot of them within 5-10 years. Certainly I expect the core ideas to feature prominently in by sons’ lives. However although this video is a great advertising platform by Corning, telling us that they are a forward-thinking and progressive company, I’m wondering whether they will be the ones that bring these technologies to us.
With Jim Sink’s restructuring announcement that Blue Mars would wind down development for the PC platform and move to a mobile-based phone/tablet centic environment Avatar Reality have placed the final nail in the coffin of mass-community virtual worlds. So what went wrong?
