*Well, no.   Il mercato degli NFT è già morto?

*Instead of making a cyberspace into an art gallery, maybe it’s more commercially sensible to use NFTs to decorate a virtual space that you already own as part of a game. https://www.playtoearn.online/2021/06/12/megacryptopolis-partners-with-rarible-to-decorate-world/ City building game MegaCryptoPolis has partnered with NFT marketplace Rarible to allow players to decorate their custom building interiors and storefronts with NFTs in […]

*The NFT wunderkammers are multiplying as fast as we can blog them.   Some are new; others were already doing similar work and see the chance to pivot.  

*I may be mistaken, but I think these are the first augmented reality images from another planet.     https://720yun.com/t/d9vktq8wprm?scene_id=73950360  

*”RareRooms” is one among many new experiments to host NFT art in virtual spaces, semi-virtual spaces, game-like spaces,  or physical spaces with screens, or  with projectors, or, well, “wunderkammers” of pretty much every descripti0n. “One description is “metaverse parcel.”  Why is it called a “parcel?” Because it’s unreal-estate of a defined dimension and it can […]

*If you’re not a gamer, you may not be aware of how cinematic immersive games are nowadays.  This is the current state-of-the-art from Electronic Arts, “Battlefield 2042.” *To view this trailer, you may be required to state that you’re over 18, because this war-game is fantastically violent. *In the meanwhile, for Electronic Arts, “battlefield 2021” […]

*These mishaps are considered so amusing that they’ve become a genre on YouTube.  Obviously they’re hilarious, although there’s something truly pitiful about the spectacle of blindfolded, disoriented people who are bound with cables and tumbling helplessly into walls and floors. *Also, consider the cruel sensibility of someone who would film that intimate, humiliating moment and […]

*Oddly, this is not a ransomware attack, but these seem like some especially bold and loud criminals. *You’ll notice that they’re especially happy about seizing the company’s creative tools.  They’re offering to sell the tools to commercial rivals or to other hackers. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-brea*Twench-gaming-giant-electronic-arts-steal-game-source-code/   (…) Stolen EA data worth $28 million The attackers claim to […]

*Google couldn’t find a mass user-base for these and decided to open-source them. *By the standards of tech-art, Tilt Brush is sophisticated while Google Poly was colossal, but they’re nowhere near the epic scale of YouTube.  So now “Open Brush” and the “Icosa Gallery” have appeared.   https://uploadvr.com/tilt-brush-open-free-pc-vr/ Open Brush, an open source version of […]

*If you’re in Torino, this newsletter is a good way to keep up with some of the odder and more innovative local developments in architecture and urban planning. *Of course it’s all in Italian. 111 architetture – Torino Contemporanea: presentazione e visite guidate   Urban Lab, con la collaborazione di Ordine degli Architetti PPC di […]