The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

Fittingly, the debut installation was created by LaTurbo Avedon , an artist and curator who also happens to be a digital avatar. From the memesis of the installed works and locations, down to noisy reflections from the game engine itself. You begin to see reflections throughout the Virtual Factory,” Avedon says of their work.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A virtual Ed avatar?) With the event, Niantic appears to be attempting to follow in the footsteps of Epic Games, which has offered a number of in-game music events in Fortnite over the years from artists like Travis Scott and Ariana Grande. In-game events like these are big business for Niantic. isn’t at all clear.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

When we think of the metaverse, popularly depicted as a game-like virtual environment where humans use avatars to live, work, and play, we’re often the main characters. But Cross goes on to suggest using a digital person to play a game like Call of Duty. Digital people running on Soul Machines’ dystopian-sounding Humans OS 2.0

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The company owns an animated collab house of “synthetic superstars” — characters who live on social media and pop up everywhere else through partnerships with celebrities, iconic fashion brands and gaming platforms. Kranky Series One 14 iconic street artists. inches of perfect vinyl. Are you ready?

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 8, 2025

Over the past year, generative AI has transformed the way people live, work and play, enhancing everything from writing and content creation to gaming, learning and productivity. 1 [dev] and expected be offered as a NIM microservice, offers artists greater control over text-based image generation. Sign up for Project R2X updates.

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The Verge

AUGUST 26, 2021

So they scrapped the project, and teamed up with Evan Luza and artist Colin Egan on something different: Cool Cats , a generative NFT project that planned to make 9,999 cartoon cats. You can think of these NFT series a bit like big games of Pokémon, except each creature can only be captured once. That’s a loser’s game,” Gargamel says.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

It''s resulted in some of my favorite work ever: games like #namethatzoom , projects like FeederSketch , adult-only Ball Pits , and most importantly, the creation of Experimonth , which is what I''d like to blog about today. game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences' Experimonth started out as play.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Educators (cultural institutions) and IP owners (publishers and broadcasters) can use it to create immersive games with a drag-and-drop interface that can be deployed in VR and on mobile. Manna
 Co-creating fantastic lifelike avatar media like games, quests, cinema, shows, webcasts, social and business events in a 3D/AR/VR ecosystem.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Epic says the tool can be used alongside full motion-capture suits, or while an artist is sitting at their desk. Image: Epic Games. A newly released iOS app from Epic Games lets developers record facial expressions that can be imported directly into the Unreal Engine, using little more than an iPhone’s front-facing camera.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

The company had raised over $2 billion by promising incredible hardware that would open up a new artistic medium — the first plausible avatar for the long-held dream of mixed reality. A pair of projects with Insomniac Games, including the short 2018 game Seedling and a follow-up called Strangelets.

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The Verge

MARCH 7, 2022

Alongside digital DIY tools like Twine, Bitsy has made game-making genuinely approachable In the video game Under A Star Called Sun , players wake up alone on a spaceship. A friend passed away in 2019; they loved sci-fi, so a year later Richard made a game set on a spaceship. Illustration by Álvaro Bernis / The Verge.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

After all, life is already full of digital mirrors — of avatars and social media feeds that are supposed to embody “you” in various forms — so why not add a speaking automaton to the mix? I had no idea that this deeply personal thing — my voice — could be copied by technology so quickly and easily. Well, the potential applications are varied.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Having a physical avatar for these visits makes a huge psychological difference, staff tell The Verge. Image: Phoenix Children’s Hospital. Phoenix Children’s Hospital uses telepresence robots to let special visitors spend time with children on the ward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Games for Social Change gaming and libraries was recently published and the author is the Shifted Librarian and My Avatar Wears Tight Jeans and 4 Other Things I learned from Internet Librarian 2006 is worth the read from Michael Stephens. Its part of the " Have Money Will Vlog."

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Its easy to say that the name of the advertising game has always been attention. But the level of skill, belief, strategic rigor, creative confidence, and sheer will required to win this game has never been higher or more complex. If the game really was the closest thing to the real deal, why not make it that much closer?

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2021

Two organizations, Earth Day Initiative (EDI) and March for Science NYC , are collaborating to offer a series of online events culminating in a virtual march and rally using an online gaming platform. National Geographic’s Earth Day Eve 2021.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 2, 2025

A trailer for Avatar: Fire and Ash , the third film in James Camerons galactically successful series, starts by delivering on the titles promise. The fake Avatar trailer, which relies on some truly abysmal AI, is part of a scourge of similar videos designed to trick movie lovers into thinking theyve found a first look at an upcoming flick.

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