Une application de réalité augmentée crée par Pierrick Chabi pour les 10 ans de la Fondation Zinsou à Cotonou, Bénin.

Le musée fait le mur !

Entrez dans une nouvelle dimension de l’Afrique ! Bienvenue au Musée de Ouidah !

Où que vous soyez dans le monde, l’application WAKPON vous emmène à la découverte de 10 artistes contemporains issus du continent Afrique à travers une expérience inédite.

>plus de 40 œuvres (photographies, peintures, dessins) commentées

>possibilité de zoomer à travers les œuvres

Pour fonctionner, l’application s’utilise conjointement à des images magiques.

Pour les imprimer, rendez-vous sur www.wakponapp.org

Application compatible avec smartphones et tablettes.

La Fondation Zinsou remercie Christian Langlois-Meurinne et l’IDI

http://www.wakponapp.org/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wakpon.app&hl=fr

The third annual Summer of Arts 2015 virtual arts event begins on September 25.

Metropolis Grid hosts this event to give cyber artists an opportunity to display their works to a wide audience. The art displayed ranges from audio-visual installations and theater projects to paintings and cyberart objects.

A special thanks should be given to Oddball Otoole for creating the 20’s themed scenarios for the two Summer of Arts regions.

After the opening on the 25th, the exhibition will host live performances from musicians and poetic readings in both English and German. Summer of Arts 2015 will run from September 25 until October 31, 2015.

"The primary reason for implementing the export permission, according to InWorldz partner David Daeschler, is to clearly define the content that residents are allowed to download from the grid using a viewer’s built-in export function. Several viewers allow users to download objects as XML, OXP or Collada files either to keep as a local backups, or to take them to other grids."

The Project started 2012. At the beginning she created a group to exchange knowledge and experience about the 3D modelling tool "Blender". Some experienced people met and the idea was to give the knowledge to others. That was the birth of "Anette's Schule".
The METROPOLIS TEAM made the approach to her to open the school officially. This laid the foundation of the "METROPOLIS Academy". After four years existence Metropolis experienced what knowledge had been needed:
Transferring knowledge and know how in the use of tools and technics to other residents.
The courses are free of charge and include themes like: Creating sculpties and MESHes using "Blender", Texturize with "Gimp", LINUX for beginners, How to start an own region with Open Sim technologies, HTML and PHP Courses. To have an overview about all of them see:

4ème colloque consacré au Droit dans les Mondes virtuels.

Le Centre Droit et Nouvelles Technologies de la Faculté de Droit de l’Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 organise une série de colloques consacrés au droit dans les mondes virtuels.

Après les thématiques de Droit et Philosophie dans les Mondes virtuels et de Droits et Economie dans les Mondes virtuels et la thématique de Droit et Justice dans les Mondes virtuels les notions de droit et de pouvoir seront abordées.

This Saturday and  Sunday, Nara’s Nook grid invites the public to see a series of presentations and experience “Immersive Edge,” a hypergrid story and adventure game in OpenSim.

A few months ago, this niche author-focused grid created a story sequencing tool and distributed it to authors and artists from around the metaverse.

With just a couple of minutes of explanation, with with no tech skills they went on to script their scenes on their own.

The story sequencers and additions to Ferd’s NPC controller and Aine’s PMAC system make it possible for everyday users of OpenSim to put on things like a dance show or a full play using only NPCs. It can even be done so an NPC will rez and start the show for a visitor on arrival.

3rd Rock Grid is proud to announce the hand-over of its management to the Stichting 3rd Rock Grid Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation registered in the Netherlands. The foundation’s six-member board of unpaid directors, comprised of involved citizens, includes previous owners, together with dedicated volunteers.

“This will guarantee a bright future for the friendly community grid,” said Tara Dockery, 3rd Rock Grid board member. She is also known as Thoria Millgrove in-world.

http://3rdrockgrid.com/

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BASMOCA is a Metaverse, based on Virtual Worlds Technology, in which people interact in a 3D cyberspace that uses the metaphor of the real world but without its physical limitations.

It is a museum, but so much more than that; it is a place where people anywhere in the world can come together, in Avatar form, to look at art and exchange ideas and information, in a real life setting, regardless of age, gender, ethnic, cultural or socio-economic identities.

In a time of myriad barriers and boundaries, virtual worlds are a tool with which to disseminate art and culture. BASMOCA uses cutting-edge technology to bring a contemporary art collection into the minds and the lives of as many people as are interested and inspired to explore this new space.

To augment people’s physical wants with such virtual riches is a way for us to discover what we really need, what feeds our hearts and our minds. If we want to look at and think about art, and for that experience to be as real as possible but without the difficulties imposed by time and geographical location, we can now do so. This is a new place to be, a revolutionary mode of thought and existence,  that frees us from our everyday limitations.

The BASMOCA virtual gallery is a pioneering example of using this technology, efficiently and effectively, to disseminate art and culture. It is the only Virtual Gallery of its kind to showcase a real-life collection.

Acknowledgements

Owner and Founder: Basma Al Sulaiman
Curator: Basma Al Sulaiman
Business Development: Victoria Poniatowski
Art Critic and Writer: Rebecca Tanqueray
Website design: White Feather Technologies S.L.
Virtual Museum Development: White Feather Technologies S.L.

Summer of Arts 2015, the virtual arts event! This Exhibition is hosted every third year by the Metropolis grid. Summer of Arts is a great opportunity for all Cyber artists to present their works to a broad public. The Summer of Arts is a mix of all forms of art - from theater projects to audio-visual installations to photographical objects, paintings and Cyberart objects.

At the 25th of September 2015 the exhibition will be opened to the public with a Grand Opening. The Expo will then run until the end of October 2015, accessible to all.

The exhibition area consists of 2 regions: an urban scenario with more than 100 galleries and showrooms, as well as an open space for large objects. A big Thanks to Oddball Otoole for creating this impressive 20s scenario for us.

Events calendar : http://summer-of-arts.org/events.html

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Le casque se compose d’un écran qui simule une vision stéréoscopique et de capteurs qui permettent de suivre les mouvements de la tête

"...The number of registered users increased by 9,286 to 433,179, with InWorldz bringing in the most new registrations at 1,754, followed by Kitely with 1,409, Avination with 584 and YrGrid with 557. YrGrid, a gambling-themed grid, launched earlier this year with a Bitcoin-based in-world currency. Three of these grids are not hypergrid enabled, showing that closed commercial grids are still doing a better job of marketing to new users, and should be lauded for helping bring people to OpenSim.

However, because the total number of hypergrid-enabled grids has been increasing dramatically, the total number of active users on the hypergrid continues to pull away from the number of users on the closed grids..."

MdM è un museo di arte contemporanea in 3D

.../From 2015 onwards, The Museo del Metaverso will focus its attention on a coming together of the physical and digital. The Museo will be more than a place to visit and explore. Beyond the beauty of its architecture and the treasures it contains, the MdM will be a workshop, a breeding ground for new ideas, a place where, using to internet in all its various forms, exhibitions and events can reach the physical world and be seen to their best advantage. All the various working parts, from the architecture and artwork, to the performances, the events, the staff and artists, come together to form a single conceptual work, both immersive and performative, with which we aim to mirror the very best of the physical world.

I particularly wish to thank Alpha Auer, better known in the physical world as Professor Elif Ayiter, Editor, Metaverse Creativity - Journal, Intellect Journals, UK. Her hard work and artistic brilliance made all the difference to this project, and she has all my heartfelt gratitude./...

As the technology that underpins virtual reality develops and the experiences become increasingly more real, I've been pondering a particularly morbid thought: When will we have the first VR-induced death? Will a realistic rocket launcher blast in Team Fortress 2 or VR version of Silent Hill give you a heart attack? Will a a VR experience be so realistic that you get so swept up in the moment that you run into a wall or jump out a window?