Click here to get a free copy of a Sinespace furniture item that shows off a cool feature to the virtual world, a proud sponsoring partner to New World Notes:
An audio reactive display that dynamically responds to music being streamed into a scene. (Watch above for a club scene demo.)
Sinespace staffer Xu (Xulain #4636 on Discord) has some tips for installing the Display in your region:
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Just in time for Easter, you can buy a pet rabbit in Sinespace (a media partner to New World Notes), and unlike most virtual world pets, Buddy Rabbit is special, built on a complicated AI architecture. As seen above, Buddy can inquisitively explore an area, flee from trouble -- even doing flying spin-leaps to get away from pursuers -- and follow its owner.
Well, somewhat follow: “You see the rabbit is a wild animal and is difficult to control him exactly,” Buddy’s creator Kokostar warns me, grinning. (He's Kokostar #1902 on Discord.)
A leader in the Swiss Society of Virtual and Augmented Reality, Kokostar has been creating virtual pets in Sinespace for over a year: “I have always been interested in agents which simulate human or animal behaviors.”
His first attempts at pets were rather mechanical, however, so he turned to a sophisticated back-end structure, to give them more life:
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Built by Carsten Stark, the Archipelago region in Sinespace (a proud NWN partner) is over 20 square miles big, and comes with free physics-enabled vehicles (a stunt plane and an offroad jeep) for driving and flying fun. Read about it here; to jump in to play, download the latest Sinespace viewer here and search “Archipelago” in Explore.
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Click here between 3pm and 4pm PT today on a Chrome browser running on any computer and join us in Sinespace (a proud NWN media partner) for a Sinespace fireside chat on building massive worlds with co-founder Adam Frisby and Adam Goodrich, founder of Procedural Worlds, creator of the powerful Unity terrain tool Gaia. If you miss the event, watch the YouTube stream below:
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Update 3/11: Time has been changed to 3pm PT based on this announcement.
This coming Thursday at 4pm PT, Sinespace is hosting an in-world fireside chat with co-founder Adam Frisby and Adam Goodrich, founder of Procedural Worlds, creator of the powerful Unity terrain tool Gaia, which can be used in Sinespace to build massive, highly detailed worlds -- see video below.
Sinespace (a proud media partner to New World Notes!) is holding the event on their World Stream technology, which enables you to stream the 3D virtual world from a Chrome browser on any computer, even low-end laptops. I’ll post the link right before the scheduled time, which you can just click to enter the virtual world. If you want a reminder, follow me on Twitter or join the Sinespace Discord.
There will be a Q&A session during the chat, so get your questions about creating and scaling huge virtual worlds ready. After that, the team is planning to take a tour of Archipelago, the new Sinespace vehicle sim region that’s 20 square miles large and built, in part, with Gaia.
Up to now, by the way, World Streaming has only been available in Breakroom, Sinespace’s virtual world for live events and conferences. So this Thursday‘s event is the first open invitation to try out this technology directly in Sinespace.
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The new Archipelago region in Sinespace (a proud New World Notes media partner) recently opened up, and it’s a whole massive mini-world for people who love vehicle sims of all kinds:
To play, download the latest Sinespace viewer here and search “Archipelago” in Explore. I just gave it a whirl myself, and was pretty impressed by the region design and the vehicle physics -- it’s just fun to go blasting around the island chain at top speed, seeing the sights, crashing a lot, and it will be even more fun when large groups of players are doing so. (There’s also vending machines to buy copies of the vehicles to use anywhere in Sinespace, of course.)
Built by Carsten Stark, who creates Sinespace experiences with his real life wife who he first met in-world, the Archipelago is his vision to create vehicle-loving social groups in Sinespace:
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Starting tomorrow (February 27) at 9am PT, the community of Sinespace (a media partner to this blog) are unveiling Discovery Island with a grand opening festival. Hosted by Mimi Marie, it’s a weekend of fun events (schedule below) featuring many of the best creators and designers working on the platform, and prize giveaways worth up to 10,000 in Gold.
To join the festivities, simply launch Sinespace, search Discovery Island in Explore, and teleport to the action.
Mimi tells me she plans to host regular events on the island:
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The ST X1 is a new user-made airplane in Sinespace (a proud sponsoring partner to New World Notes) that’s attracted quite a lot of buzz within the user community. Created by Carsten Stark, co-creator of the equally impressive Localhost Connection Cafe, the ST XI is fully physics-enabled and comes with a cockpit HUD with real time displays.
“The Sinespace vehicle system uses a physics model in Unity and this is built upon that as a base and extended as needed for the aircraft bits that I added,” Carsten tells me. “The movement is all done by applying directional force and rotational torque.”
Top airspeed: 394 knots. As you can see from the video, the plane comes with quite a lot of detail.
“The wheels in the landing gear have springs and tension and will bounce or smooth bumps a bit…. the instruments are all tied to the physical model and indicate real values. Airspeed is in knots, climb rate is in feet per second, altitude is in feet, pitch, roll, compass directions are all in degrees."
Getting the visuals to look right was a challenge at first, but Sinespace’s partnership with Unity’s Asset Store helped speed things up:
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Acclaimed artist and filmmaker David Lynch recently appeared in avatar form in Breakroom, the virtual world for live events from Sine Wave Entertainment (a sponsoring partner to New World Notes). Lynch did so to receive an award from Mexico’s Guanajuato International Film Festival (or GIFF), one of world’s largest annual cinema events. Due to the pandemic, GIFF moved many of its scheduled events to a virtual campus built in Breakroom, so hundreds of registrants could safely watch short films in competition, attend panels, even participate in a studio pitch session.
As a longtime Lynch fan, it was a professional highlight to help bring the master creator of dreamlike alternate realities into a virtual world for the first time. Lynch and his assistant safely logged into Breakroom from his home in Los Angeles, from the very same spot where he shoots his famous weather reports. As you might have guessed, getting his iconic hair as accurate as possible for his avatar was the most challenging task. To make it a truly Lynchian event, the entrance to the theater lobby where the director received his award was even made to look like the Red Room from his cult series Twin Peaks. (We did consider adding a backward-talking midget as well, but that’ll have to wait.)
More details and video below. With this event, GIFF became the first major film festival to move its activities to a virtual world, but with the global pandemic still raging, I expect many more will follow. As for Breakroom, it’s recently hosted virtual world conferences for Stanford and the United Nations, and will soon launch a speakers’ events series open to all -- stay tuned.
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Click here for exclusive access to a new Sinespace feature launch party for Sinespace community members and all other virtual world explorers/creators. The event opens August 5 at 8:30am PT, then starts at 9am PT. You don’t need a Sinespace account to attend, but it will be held in a secret virtual world location, so you must RSVP here for access.
As a media partner to Sinespace, I’m highly biased, but I think what the development team has created is pretty amazing, and if you’re a regular New World Notes reader, you’ll want to join the fun.
Adam Frisby and the other founders of Sinespace will host the event, and talk about what this new feature means for the future of the virtual world. If you’re lucky, you’ll also get the first glimpse of some other impressive features about to go live very soon.
This launch comes after a period of relative quiet for the Sinespace development team, as they’ve been deep in the launch of Breakroom, and perfecting this feature they’re about to unveil. As Adam puts it to me:
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