Some times an idea is ahead of its time, sometimes they've got to come around again.
The report above looks to the future of metaverse journalism - taking in a number of areas via video journalism.
But then it's inspired something more cine-based which I'm working on.
But how to get it out? I could use the web etc? but what else?
Couple of years back the digital card made its presence and as an idea before its time caused some amusement.
But now its back in vogue and the file capacity has gone from a dinky 25mb to 100mb and more.
Digital card for carrying anything from a full movies to film pitches
So you can carry the trailer, the web site, the film pitch, what ever on that business card.
If business cards are meant to ac as visual prods to elicit contact, then this digital card, the size of a credit card goes one step further.
Box of 50 digital cards which I'll be dumping my trailer on
The trailer should be ready before the international video journalism awards, which I hope to preview here.
p.s Added belatedly from David ( sitbonzo) comment. DO NOT try putting these into Macs or PCs without a tray otherwise its curtains. The cd needs to be placed on a tray. Thanks David
NOTE: The above video you're watching is not a game, It's a real time event unravelling in which the avatars you see represent real people at their computers controlling their actions.
Trainers use these scenarios to familiarise recruits with what potentially might happen in real world
In this month's Harvard Business Review, Metaverse platfroms ie Second Life et al are crowned as the next phase of the web.
It's easy to chase shadows in this future where every day a new product and semiotic for the web, its participation and indeed story telling unfolds.
But the signs seem to suggest, if not so obviously, that 3d virtual platforms could expand the machinations of web functionality.
At the moment we may or may not be participants, but greater web speeds and a generation born into avatars and bebos may exhibit different attitudes.
Will you gather in a virtual world to watch films? Will a chunk of your income come from your alter ego living and breathing in an electrical medium?
The Matrix dared suggest a ludicruous future, which caught our imaginations nonetheless, but in Forterra's Oilve virtual system, where participants live in Iraq and Afghanistan modelled on real towns, accidents can happen.
Ron Brown, the European disributor of Forterra, got accidently shot during a training execrise and his his avatar violently hit the floor.
Attach sensors to the body and as Trinity would tell THE ONE, the body can't live without the soul or something like that.
Metaverse reportage In the latest video on Viewmagazine.tv, I dig out excerpts from my days reporting conflict in Africa, West Africa and South.
In Ghana the US Special Forces are teaching Ghanaian Paratroopers low parachute deployment.
Paras jump at either high altitude or low enough under radars and open up their parachutes with minutes, sometimes, seconds to spare before hitting the ground maximising their chance of escape.
It's in military and emergency exercises where AUGMENTED REALITY, virtual world's like Forterra are gaining in popularity.
Next month in what might be a first and very trippy, I'll be in Forterra as a videojournalist reporting on issues that have an impact on the real world.
Exercises which Nato undertakes in its annual war games, which I have reported on also feature in the video package.
There's a lot of material I have had to exclude, but by next week I should have the template for a hypervideo package.
Will metaverse really rule the web?
If you can afford it find out from Harvard Business Review, otherwise, here's my uncompressed version of the video on viewmagazine.tv
Box of 50 digital cards which I'll be dumping my trailer on
