#altspace

[youvegotmoxie]

Finally getting some of these cut up!!

[imthere4yuu]

Working on my pre-shower battle armor

[kennethbrownny1]

The Dark Castle

[indianchamber]

What is the Metaverse?

It is like a Sci-Fi movie becoming a reality. It helps to connect to people who are not physically present and gives the second-best feeling of being in close touch. The Metaverse actually is an expansive, interconnected digital universe that blends aspects of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and the Internet to create immersive, shared experiences. It is a convergence of physical and digital worlds, allowing users to interact, play, work, and socialize in many ways previously confined to the world of science fiction. VR puts users in a digital environment, while AR puts digital elements into the real world. Software tools applied are Oculus Rift and HTC Vive for VR, and ARKit for iOS, ARCore for Android in the realm of AR. This living digital universe, where events occur in real-time, is a key feature that software platforms like Second Life and Fortnite creatively utilize.

Accessing the Metaverse is not a problem. For a fully immersive experience, VR headsets like Oculus Quest 2, HTC Vive, and Sony Playstation VR are popular choices. Augmented reality experiences can be felt through smartphones and tablets using ARCore for Android and ARKit for iOS. For more advanced AR, devices like Microsoft HoloLens and Magic Leap offer a more sophisticated experience. Familiarising one with the 3D space of the Metaverse is essential. Tools like Google Earth VR and various VR exploration games can help users get accustomed to moving and interacting in a three-dimensional virtual environment. Some Metaverse platforms have their own unique interfaces. VR controllers allow for natural interactions in virtual spaces, for example voice and text chat through Platforms like Discord. Some VR platforms allow teleportation to move around virtually. Platforms like Altspace VR and VRChat offer a variety of environments for meeting and interacting with people from around the globe. The revolution is that an Indian can interact with a US citizen, through their Images or Avatars in the Metaverse. Platforms like Sansar and TheWaveVR specialize in hosting virtual meetings or virtual conferences. LinkedIn VR and platforms like Spatial provide environments for professional networking, workshops, and meetings in a virtual setting. Platforms like Mozilla Hubs and Engage offer spaces for educational seminars, lectures, and cultural exchanges.

The Metaverse opens a gateway to a world of opportunities, making it really possible that ‘Nothing is impossible’ and creating a platform for innovation, social connection, learning, and business. What do you think? How can we utilize this to our benefit?

[tonin-terets]

Aston Martin DBX707 | Hero Film from AltSpace on Vimeo.

For Aston Martin we designed, directed & produced 7 short films, each focusing on a unique feature of this luxury SUV, complemented by a Hero Film that ties everything together.

The result is an artistic manifesto for the new DBX707, presenting its bold nature and innovative vision.

Creative Director: Igor Voloschuk Director: Anton Shavkero CG Supervisor: Vladimir Mischenko Head of Production: Dmitry Egorov Producers: Olya Nikolaeva, Olga Shkurenkova, Daria Dereviashkina CG Artists: Oleg Butov, Yaroslav Goglev, Dmitry Lebedko, Ars Sozinov, Anatoliy Fedorov, Alex Gorin, Ivan Durnev, Zinnur Mustafin, Alexey Ryabov, Yuriy Adam, Oleg Trubnikov, Tim Baym, Peter Betenev, Vlad Petrenko, Zaur Tamadaev, Simas Liukaitis, Vilius Kazlauskas Storyboard Artist: Daria Balashowa Sound: Alex Zaripov

[raduchits]

Aston Martin DBX707 from Anton Shavkero on Vimeo.

Client — Aston Martin @astonmartin CGI Studio: @altspace Creative Director: @igor.altspace

Director: @shavkero

CG Supervisor: @m4rker Head of Production: @egorov.dmitry Producers: @visualsailor oshkurenkova @dderevyashkina

CG Artists: @pfct_crcl @techie_r7 @dnitry_lebedko @anatolii.fiodorov @cg_nickday @oleg_february @rucomba @peterbetenev @cegac4d @anklovee @zinnurxoxo @adamjim @baym @repetren @any_time_za @simasliukaitis s @viliuskazlauskas

Storyboard: @daricella

Edit: @kvadrate Sound: @daruma.audio

[pesoprima]

Those fucking Centauris

In the tall waves of altspace a massive freight ship rocked and tossed, it's thousands of cargo containers straining the strong aramid rigging and steel plating. At the bridge were half a dozen nervous men and women. Most were monitoring for damage. The new gal at the helm jerked around the wheel for split second maneuvers. Her head's eternally rotating to see around the ship.

She steered the ship through waves twice the size of skyscrapers and avoided those taller than Mount Everest. She cursed every time gray blobs of liquid splashed against outside AR cameras and drones.

The captain looked through his own pair of Augmented Reality goggles. "We are six lightyears from the target, when are you taking us back to stable waters?" he yelled over the scraping metal and splashes.

"Soon!" She yelled back.

"You said that three hours ag—"

"Eleven o'clock, fifty, fast!" navigation yelled.

"Seen it!" the helmswoman replied.

She maxed out the starboard jets, hard. Crew's inertia jolted them to the side. Bow of the ship broke through the giant fifty meter wave, almost sending the crew through the front.

The captain continued: "Need I remind you the safe relative transfer velocity is zero?!"

"I know!"

"Then why are we skirting around the five k at such ridiciolus speed?! The trough will— FUCK, WHY ARE YOU SENDING US INTO IT!?"

Said trough came: a gargantuan chasm preceeding and suceeding every wave two kilometers high or higher.

"Shortcut!"

I can't take control of it now, she commited us to it, the captain thought, she'll throw us into a planet! Fucking Centauri bitch!

"All brace!" he commanded.

Steadily the ship rotated forwards and took a dive straight down. The rudders and jets were barely scraping the surface, making control nigh impossible. Safety harnesses kept everyone immovable, even the standing helmswoman clenching the wheel as if she wanted to break it's steel skeleton.

Ten seconds into the dive the surface started to slooowly level out.

"We're gaining forward speed! Control surfaces in water!" she yelled, "Rotating us towards a new exit! Nav, I'll put us into orbit towards the station! Double check that entry angle will be one-eight-zero to the surface if exit is two-seven-eight-point-six-o! New exit point is at marker Ava! Check for traffic!"

"What?! Orbit?!" captain yelled back, "With this speed you'll shoot us into the fucking PLANET! We won't be able to stop in time!"

"That's why I'm going to go tangentally to the planet! New exit location, cap!"

What the fuck is she on about?

"Nav!"

"Repeat new exit angle!"

"Two-seven-eight-point-six-o!"

She won't be able to rotate in time! And... this isn't the escape location I set in. Marker Ava she said!?

"Turn to two-seven-eight-point-five-nine! TWO-SEVEN-EIGHT-POINT-FIVE-NINE! Exit clear!"

"Exit clear! Angle error within safety margin!"

"Why the fuck are you taking an exit elsewhere and so FUCKING CLOSE TO THE PLANET!? WE ARE AIMING TO EXIT AT THE MOON!" panic had set into captains voice.

"You said you wanted it fast! The sea gave us a new shortcut!"

"You were going in blind!"

"Never! I adapted us to the ever-bloody-changing nature of this dimension captain! This isn't a road! It's constantly moving!"

"I don't give a—"

"Exiting in three!"

The captain shut his mouth and scrambled for the arm rests.

"Two!"

He was clenching them so hard the plastic might shatter.

"One!"

Everyone on the bridge was silent. What would they even say after one of, if not, the most dangerous altspace navigations of their lives? Only the helmswoman Ava smiled and broke the silence:

"I've put us into a transfer orbit to the station. We'll dock in 4 hours."

More silence. She unbuckled herself and pulled in her chair to sit.

"Navigation."

"Yes captain?"

"Is what she said true?"

Ava exhaled a laugh.

"Yes captain. She got us really close."

"Close to danger?"

"No. She got us eight hundred kilometers above the surface of the planet. With that much speed an orbit was established without aditional burns. Just a small correction one. Nothing big."

The captain leaned down to put his face into his palms.

"Okay... okay... Helm?"

"Yes captain? Ava answered.

"What the fuck?" he asked. Deadpan, just no energy to be angry.

"This is my standard operating procedure. You know we Alpha Centauris are good at sailing the alt, so you asked if I could do it quickly. I could. And I did.

"Your exit strategy would leave you orbiting the moon. Then you'd have to transfer a waay bigger distance to get here. It is safer, I admit it. Following the calmer, more consistent currents and exiting at them is the best for an average sailor. But."

"But?" he murmured through his hands.

"If you'd look at your fuel gauge, you'll find a cool fact."

Holy shit, he thought to himself, she went through a quarter of what we usually use.

"You are a good captain, I like your savings policy. What is it, for every dollar saved each of the crew get five percent? That's twenty million saved right there on fuel."

The other four crewmembers' eyes grew wider. They quietly cursed in approval.

"And look at the time."

HOLY shit. She saved us eight, no, nine and a half hours.

"You said you got some urgent cargo there. Clients will be happy to give a dollar extra per unit for your urgency."

The crew smiled from ear to ear and looked at the helmswoman.

I could get them to give a dollar and twenty for this. Nobody else will dock as fast as we will. No, a dollar. The twenty is for good rapport. Fuck, she got me at least three mil extra, after the crew bonus too.

The captain sharply inhaled and stood up straight.

"Alright. Seems we are eating like kings tonight!"

"Fuck yeah!" the four of his old crew yelled unanimously.

"Get the docking checklist in order! Adam, Con, make sure we still have all our cargo on board!"

The two men scrambled for the EVA lockers out of excitement. Ava smiled at the happines she caused in the crew. She took out her own helmsman's checklist to go through with the others.

The captain walked towards her with a professional gait. They looked at eachother briefly. He dropped to one knee, looked her straight into her confused eyes, and emotionlessly asked:

"Will you work for me fulltime?"

Everyone present blew their sides from laughter.

[gadgetsforusesblog]

Even in the metaverse, companies must take responsibility

It’s easy to assume that the metaverse bubble has burst. At the end of March, Walt Disney Co. disbanded the 50-member unit that was developing metaverse strategies for the group. Two months earlier, Microsoft announced it was closing Altspace VR. Sony and Byte Dance’s Pico unit both admitted that sales of VR headsets in 2023 would be much lower than expected. Meta Platforms ramps up layoffs, and…

[metaverse-ar-vr]

Microsoft is updating its popular Teams work communications application to include real-time 3D (RT3D) digital human avatars this May. The solutions provider first announced the inclusion of virtual humans for Teams back in 2021. However, following #AR #VR #Metaverse

[youvegotmoxie]

I can't believe I never posted these???? Super happy with how they turned out! Currently slowly but surely attaching them to their bag ❤️

Bag Design under cut ❤️

[vrhermit]

My favorite Altspace Memory

An anecdote about an encounter with Reggie Watts in AltspaceVR. (more…) “”

[frances-kafka]

I don't RELATE to Team Funko and I don't even enjoy those things anymore. I barely watch TV, I don't read many modern books. It is incredibly isolating to not be into normie media but not be someone that's been let into the places where people talk about anything else.

And being around Normies With Kids is just a painful reminder that I didn't get to be that and never got a choice in it, while Normies With Kids generally gaslight you into some form of bootstrap rhetoric about how you could have been a Normie With Kids if only you'd married a normie and had kids

I feel like Team Funko and altspace/nerdspace were always just a cope. I feel like even being childfree was always just a cope and I don't relate to THOSE people

There is no fucking thing for anyone my age

you're either an old or a young.

If you're a middle then you're either a permachild/permateen collecting funky pops or you are a normie with kids and fuck you if you're neither one of those things I guess

[kennethbrownny1]

Supergirl's Talk  Show with Friends - Interview

[peterruprecht]

This morning I woke up before my 4 year old son and did something I was longing to do! Wake up for sunrise on the #playa at #burningman Since I could not do that in real life. I put on my #vr goggles and went to #brcvr in #altspace and walked around sunrise taking photos. Tonight @playalchemist is having an amazing experience finishing in a dance party with @diplo playing @burningman @altspace @brcvr https://www.instagram.com/p/CEwxEHVHIm4/?igshid=b21oc37s1wgp

[darkseid-of-the-moon]

My Altspace avatar makes me look like a teenager. I don’t mind tho, I don’t mind. 😆