Charles Stross' Diary (RSS Feed)
02-27-2008, 08:46 PM
Watching this YouTube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw), followed in turn by this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2i-W9ncV_0&eurl=http://arsecondlife.gvu.gatech.edu/index.html).
(The first is a demo of how to turn a Nintendo Wii remote into a head-tracking display controller. The second video is a demo of how to integrate Second Life structures and avatars into a real-world meeting using real-time video editing. Put 'em together with a 4G mobile phone and head-mounted display (http://www.i-glassesstore.com/) and you've basically got prototypes of the by-then-ubiquitous tech I was talking about in HALTING STATE.)
And in other news, if you haven't heard of Anonymous (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCbKv9yiLiQ) and their internet-mediated War on Scientology (http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/%22Anonymous%22_releases_statements_outlining_%22W ar_on_Scientology%22) you need to watch the video in that first link. And it's not just some oddball hackers in a basement somewhere; the demonstrations in meatspace around the world (http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20598/scientology-protest-edingburgh) are a quite impressive example of delocalized transnational internet-mediated political action that has got to be scaring the living daylights out of any number of insecure and/or corrupt politicians.
(Original Post) (http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2008/02/another_halting_state_moment.html)
(The first is a demo of how to turn a Nintendo Wii remote into a head-tracking display controller. The second video is a demo of how to integrate Second Life structures and avatars into a real-world meeting using real-time video editing. Put 'em together with a 4G mobile phone and head-mounted display (http://www.i-glassesstore.com/) and you've basically got prototypes of the by-then-ubiquitous tech I was talking about in HALTING STATE.)
And in other news, if you haven't heard of Anonymous (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCbKv9yiLiQ) and their internet-mediated War on Scientology (http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/%22Anonymous%22_releases_statements_outlining_%22W ar_on_Scientology%22) you need to watch the video in that first link. And it's not just some oddball hackers in a basement somewhere; the demonstrations in meatspace around the world (http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20598/scientology-protest-edingburgh) are a quite impressive example of delocalized transnational internet-mediated political action that has got to be scaring the living daylights out of any number of insecure and/or corrupt politicians.
(Original Post) (http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2008/02/another_halting_state_moment.html)