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[grimini]

[scottishgames]

EVENT: Immersive Creatives - August 19

Immersive Creatives is a brand new event for those working or studying immersive experiences from VR/AR/XR to Escape Rooms and more.

Edinburgh Theatre Announces Immersive Creatives Its First Ever Event For Immersive Creators, Developers & Students Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre – the home of new writing – is holding its first ever event for developers and creators working with immersive technology (VR/AR/XR/MR). Immersive Creatives is part of the theatre’s Festival programme, taking place at 18:00 on August 19th. The event is…

[warrenwoodhouse]

Home, Northumberland, UK. - 21st December 2023

Photos I took this morning of the funky oily looking sky while looking out the livingroom window. This bizarre weather phenomenon was also recorded earlier this year in February in Scotland and branded as Nacreous cloud, which is when low-lying clouds are formed by freezing ice, causing this weird oily like effect.

Photos by @warrenwoodhouse

📸 iPhone XR (Product Red)

🗓 21st December 2023

📍 Home, Northumberland, UK.

[ruou-tot]

Johnnie Walker XR 21

Johnnie Walker XR 21 là một biểu tượng của sự tinh tế và đẳng cấp trong thế giới của whisky Scotland. Được sản xuất từ những nguyên liệu chất lượng nhất và kỹ thuật chế biến tinh vi, XR 21 là một tác phẩm nghệ thuật của sự pha trộn và ủ rượu.

Với tuổi đời 21 năm, Johnnie Walker XR 21 đã trải qua một quá trình ủ đầy kỹ lưỡng trong các thùng gỗ sồi châu Âu và Mỹ, tạo ra một hương vị phong phú và đa chiều. Sự kết hợp hoàn hảo giữa các loại whisky độc đáo tạo nên một hương vị vô cùng đặc biệt và tinh tế.

Johnnie Walker XR 21 mang trong mình một tinh thần truyền thống và sự kiêu sa của dòng whisky Scotland. Mỗi giọt rượu là một cuộc hành trình qua thời gian, thể hiện sự tinh tế và đẳng cấp của người yêu thưởng vị.

Với một chai Johnnie Walker XR 21, bạn không chỉ đang thưởng thức một loại whisky, mà còn là một trải nghiệm đích thực của sự tinh túy và sự hoàn hảo. Đây không chỉ là một loại rượu, mà còn là biểu tượng của phong cách và đẳng cấp.

#wine #winelover #whisky #JohnnieWalkerXR21 #ruoutot

[kenresearch1]

Future Outlook of UK Metaverse Market: Ken Research

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What is the market Size of UK Metaverse Industry?

UK Metaverse market is growing at a double digit CAGR in 2017-2022 and is expected to reach USD ~ Bn by 2028.

The UK Metaverse Market is largely driven by One of the significant growth drivers of the metaverse market is the increasing demand for immersive and interactive virtual experiences across various industries, including gaming, entertainment, education, and commerce.

UK Metaverse Market is at a growing stage. It is a fragmented market with the presence of many metaverse companies. The market has seen emergence of abundant players in the past 5 years and the industry will further boost owing to the needs and wants of consumers for a more customized virtual reality platform.

Few major UK Metaverse players are Lilith Games, Roblox Corporation., Tencent Holdings, Byte Dance., Nvidia Corporation. Europe continues to dominate the UK Metaverse market. Depending on technology, the virtual reality and augmented reality segment dominated the metaverse market share in 2020, and is expected to continue this trend during the forecast period, owing to growing demand for virtual reality (VR) / augmented reality (AR) based services.

An increase in awareness and lifestyle changes is the fundamental driver of metaverse market growth. Customers are more likely to remain loyal when their needs are customized.

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UK Metaverse Market segmentation by component

The UK Metaverse market is segmented by component into Software, Hardware and Professional Services. Software was the dominant form.

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The UK Metaverse market is segmented by vertical into Consumer, Commercial, Industrial Manufacturing, Healthcare and Others. Consumer was the most dominant in 2022.

UK Metaverse Market by Region

The UK Metaverse market is segmented by region into England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland and other Regions. England is the most dominant market.

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The UK metaverse market is fragmented. The report covers the major players operating in the United Kingdom virtual reality market. Some of the prominent players in the industry are Lilith Games, Roblox Corporation., Tencent Holdings, Byte Dance., Nvidia Corporation. Competition in the metaverse is intensifying as more companies enter the market, offering a variety of virtual reality, augmented reality, and extended reality experiences. Established tech giants, startups, and gaming companies are vying to capture a significant share of the growing metaverse industry, leading to innovative developments and unique offerings to attract users.

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The UK Metaverse market was valued at USD ~ billion in 2022 and is anticipated to exceed USD ~ billion 2028, witnessing a robust CAGR during the forecast period 2022-2028. The realistic growth scenario represents the most likely scenario as per current market conditions. This scenario assumes that there will be no overall impact on the market due to any potential COVID-19 waves in the future.

The UK Metaverse market is driven by demand for rising disposable income in developing economies. The continuous advancements in virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and extended reality (XR) technologies are fueling the development and adoption of metaverse platforms, creating new opportunities for businesses and users alike.

The government has set forth ambitious strategies to leverage digital technologies extensively in enhancing its services, processes, and decision-making capabilities. Rise in Demand in the media and entertainment, gaming and adjacent markets like virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and digitalization in the fashion, retail, and art industries are the main factors for the metaverse industry growth.

The concept of sustainable packaging is proving to be a highly beneficial investment and a responsible choice for the environment when it comes to reality platforms. With the rising awareness regarding the environmental impact of virtual assets and digital content within the metaverse, there is a growing push for new policies and measures that hold businesses accountable for sustainable practices and responsible management of virtual resources.

AI and cognitive learning technologies have started to play a decisive role and are poised to be game-changers in several avenues.

During the forecast period of 2022-2028, it is anticipated that the UK Metaverse market will grow at a massive CAGR by 2028. Growing concerns about virtual avatar health and excessive virtual consumption habits are prompting various governments to adopt plain packaging strategies for metaverse products. By implementing plain packaging regulations, authorities aim to raise awareness about digital well-being and encourage responsible virtual choices among users within the metaverse.

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[tonyb-blog]

BMW F900 XR - short motorcycle trip to Scotland and the A708 (part 3)

[feckcops]

Why it matters that XR’s “Big One” has trade union support

“Paris in May 1968, London in June 1985, Germany between 2008-11. At each of these moments in history, trade unions have lent their support to issue-based protests and tipped the dial of change. From women’s and LGBT+ rights to ending student fees, all benefited from the shared momentum. Could this weekend now see similar energy injected into the push for climate justice? ...

“Among the demonstrators will be members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), one of the UK’s largest trade unions. In some ways, this should be no surprise. The Paris Agreement enshrined people and workers as central to the new energy future through a reference to the ‘creation of decent work and quality jobs’.

“Since then, trade unions have become increasingly active in supporting the idea of a just transition for their members, from involvement in Scotland’s Just Transition Commission, to the Yorkshire and Humber Trade Union Congress’s support for the region’s Climate Commission. At the same time, the Extinction Rebellion Trade Unionist group has been encouraging XR members to join trade union picket lines and strikers across the country.

“Yet the official presence of PCS at this weekend’s event (as well as the Equity Union and the climate caucuses of the National Education Union and Unite), also marks a new level of trade union engagement with climate activism, and its political weight shouldn’t be underestimated.

“‘Throughout the 20th century and onwards, getting unions involved is like a gold star,’ Lucy Robinson, professor of collaborative history at Sussex University, told Spotlight. ‘There’s an anxiety around identity politics and issues-based movements being seen as fringe, so having unions behind you is important.’”

[queeranarchism]

On Class and Climate Struggle: Decolonising XR

So XR Scotland just did a surprisingly awesome thing, publishing the statement On Class and Climate Struggle: Decolonising XR. I’m gonna copy paste the whole thing because it is so good that this is happening and to be honest, I would not be at all surprised if someone else at XR tried to make it disappear.

Oct 19th 2019

In the last week, two widely-shared images have summed up deep-rooted problems at the heart of the Extinction Rebellion movement. One, a white man wearing a suit jacket being pulled off the top of a Tube train by people needing to get to work. In Canning Town, a mostly working class area of London that has been hit by years of austerity.

The other, a card and a bunch of flowers sent to police officers by an XR arrestee, thanking them for their ‘professionalism’. Brixton police station, where black men have died in custody.

These scenes have shown nothing new—XR has long been criticised for failing to connect with marginalised communities. But they have shown how urgently XR needs to openly address these issues.

A core message of XR has been ‘we are all in this together’. That climate catastrophe is coming for everyone, whatever class, race or creed, we can all be united by a common cause in the face of a shared threat.

BUT: – People in the Global South are already experiencing floods, drought, famine and unbearable heat that won’t affect the North in same way. – They have been robbed of the resources to be resilient to climate change by the economic system that benefits the richest 1%. – People living in poverty, in both the Global South and North, due to structural injustice (often people of colour and disabled people) are and will be adversely affected in ways the rich are protected from. – Migration caused by impacts of climate and ecological emergency is met by hostile border policies that leave people to drown and keeps them in indefinite detention.

Yes, the crisis will come for everyone. But there are massively unjust ways this is damaging some people more than others. And when we erase that, when we ignore the voices of those on the frontlines and who have the most at stake, when we focus only on ‘our children’ and not the people who are dying now, we risk leaving space for eco-fascism. By refusing to name the causes of both the climate crisis and other social injustices–colonialism and capitalism—XR will continue to alienate the people who are already living at the sharp end of the system that is ultimately killing us all.

In the run-up to the October International Rebellion, members of XR Scotland chose to highlight these issues, and to respond to the concerns of women of colour in our group being dismissed by key figures in XR UK, by creating banners reading ‘DECOLONISE XR’ and ‘CLIMATE STRUGGLE = CLASS STRUGGLE’. Many people, and other groups in XR such as Extinction Rebellion Youth, Global Justice Rebellion and XR Internationalist Solidarity Network, applauded these banners. Others in XR UK questioned this ‘messaging’.

At last week’s roadblock action targeted at the Government Oil and Gas conference, protestors from groups other than XR Scotland began singing the chant ‘police, we love you, we’re doing this for your children too’.

A woman who was with the XR protest started to shout: ‘Say that to Stephen Lawrence and Mark Duggan’s family; say you love the police to the people of Tottenham. Say that to my friends whose lives are ruined by this system. Listen, if the people on that road were all people of colour they would be getting charged at with riot gear. My black and brown friends get stopped and searched EVERY DAY’. Other XR members told her off for raising her voice and talking about something that was ‘unrelated’.

While some Scottish rebels went around asking people individually not to sing that chant, another XRS rebel—a young woman of colour—took the megaphone to ask ‘please don’t sing that—it’s really alienating to people from marginalised communities’. A middle-aged white woman then took the megaphone away from her, to say that she does love the police, that she is doing this for their children, and her own children. A woman of colour’s critique was very literally silenced by the concerns of the white woman.

Narrating this incident is not to individually blame that white woman—her actions were a symptom of something systemic in both XR and wider society. But what it reminds the white, middle-class people that dominate our movement is to stop taking the megaphone. To be quiet, and listen.

After listening, what comes next is more difficult. How can XR use its resources in genuine solidarity? How do we shift from being an overwhelmingly white and middle-class movement to centring those who have been excluded? And without tokenism, or requiring disabled, working class and people of colour to do the work that those with more privilege should have done long ago? But taking the time to listen, absorb, and reflect, is the essential first step.

Recommended recent critiques of XR:

– Athian Akec, ‘When I look at Extinction Rebellion, all I see is white faces. That has to change’ https://www.huckmag.com/…/you-cant-have-true-climate-justi…/ – Minnie Rahman, ‘You can’t have climate justice without migrant justice’ https://www.theguardian.com/…/extinction-rebellion-white-fa… – James Poulter ‘Extinction Rebellion’s Tube Protest Isn’t the Last of Its Problems’ (including interview with XR Scotland’s Mikaela Loach) https://www.vice.com/…/extinction-rebellion-tube-disruption… – May Fraser, ‘The Police Line’, https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2019/10/16/the-police-line/ – Kevin Blowe, ‘It’s Not Just a Bunch of Flowers’ https://medium.com/…/it-is-not-just-a-bunch-of-flowers-bc50… – Hannah Dines, ‘The climate revolution must be accessible – this fight belongs to disabled people too’ https://www.theguardian.com/…/climate-revolution-disabled-p… – Kuba Shand-Baptiste, ‘Extinction Rebellion’s hapless stance on class and race is a depressing block to its climate goal’ https://www.independent.co.uk/…/extinction-rebellion-climat… – Bae Sharam ‘What are you doing to dismantle your middle class white privilege when participating in XR protests? https://medium.com/…/what-are-you-doing-to-dismantle-your-m… – Karen Bell, ‘A working-class green movement is out there but not getting the credit it deserves’ https://www.theguardian.com/…/a-working-class-green-movemen… – Sharlene Gandhi, ‘Extinction Rebellion need to focus on the fact that climate displacement will largely impact communities of colour’ http://gal-dem.com/extinction-rebellion-need-to-focus-on-t…/ – Aranyo Aarjan, ‘It’s time to add global justice to XR’s demands’ https://www.redpepper.org.uk/xr-global-justice/ – Damien Gayle, ‘Does Extinction Rebellion Have a Race Problem?’ https://www.theguardian.com/…/extinction-rebellion-race-cli… – Wretched of the Earth Collective, ‘Our House Has Been on Fire for Over 500 Years’ https://worldat1c.org/our-house-has-been-on-fire-for-over-5…

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[metaglasgow]

The horrifying and disturbing spectacle of our own destruction is very apparent right now. Tonight Michael Paul Henry and I take our experiment with live global temperature data transmuted to visual//sound//projection & movement to @summerhallery for XR in Collaboration with UNFIX - XR Summerhall Residency @xrscotland @extinctionrebellion to see if we can understand better where we are headed in this interconnected overheating earth. #climatechaos #climatechange #climatecatastrophe #fringe #edfringe19 #edinburgh #edfringe2019 #xr #ExtinctionRebellion #edfringe #digitalart #generativeart #vj #visuals #design #designer #scotland #projection #videoart #butoh #dance (at Summerhall) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1gQnMQFmbE/?igshid=1mu33lyl97svi

[grimini]

[scottishgames]

The VR Hive Wins Triple Crown at Scottish Startup Awards

Immersive and AI focused education company The VR Hive has picked up 3 trophies - Startup of the Year, Most Innovative Startup, and Most Creative Startup at the Scottish Startup Awards

Educational VR Games Company Named Startup of the Year, Most Innovative Startup, and Most Creative Startup for Scotland The VR Hive, the company specialising in AI and immersive learning, has completed a hat-trick at the esteemed Scottish Startup Awards, scooping three trophies for Startup of the Year, Most Innovative Startup, and Most Creative Startup. This remarkable achievement is a…

[ayeforscotland]

To any XR activists that follow me (for some weird reason) please don’t do this when you protest in Glasgow.

Police Scotland can arrest people on sight just for being English and patter like this is a dead giveaway. Please stay safe.

[worldnewsapp]

Extinction #Rebellion holds heads in the sand #protest.   Members of #ExtinctionRebellion groups from #Highland and #Moray hold a demonstration on #CentralBeach in #Nairn, #Scotland.   Campaigners held a Heads in the #Sand event to draw attention to a #G20 meeting later this week. #XR members think the #G20countries could do more to tackle #climatechange. Tap the link in bio to read more. Or Go to "bit.ly/UKNewsPro" - Our official UK News App. #Environment #Climate #scotlandbeaches #UK #News #UKnews #UKNewsPro Reposted from @skynews https://www.instagram.com/p/CCtod8hhiUa/?igshid=oxh2l4tkqrrr

[ingek73]

The Queen, Charles and William have hit out at those who are all talk on the climate crisis. One has to wonder who they mean

Published: 15:19 Friday, 15 October 2021

I understand why they go out, “but it isn’t helpful to do it in a way that alienates people,” explained Prince Charles of Insulate Britain, in an interview this week in which he also revealed, somewhat alienatingly, that he’d had his Aston Martin converted to run on “surplus English white wine and whey from the cheese process”.

At long last, a line to eclipse Ed Begley Jr’s from an old episode of The Simpsons, in which the actor explains that his preferred vehicle is “a go-kart, powered by my own sense of self-satisfaction”. A deeply committed environmental activist, Begley has always been able to take the piss out of himself – a pastime you sense has never been top or even bottom of Prince Charles’s to-do list. Or, in fact, of the to-do list of the many, many servants who do for him in his many, many residences.

Still, 16 days out from Cop26, it seems to be House of Windsor week for making helpful interventions on climate. In terms of truly selfless good deeds, I’m holding out for Prince Andrew pledging never again to fly to America, or indeed to any US jurisdictions. When you consider the Duke of York once gas-guzzled his way to New York simply to see a paedo and tell him he couldn’t be buddies any more – hey, we’ve all done it – you get a sense of the meaningful lifestyle compromises this family is prepared to make in the course of causing ordinary subjects to explode at the Marie Antoinettishness of it all. Admittedly, these explosions are not at all good for the cause, but you can’t have everything.

Anyway, we’ve had Prince Charles’s interview on Monday, then a withering assessment from Prince William on the various billionaire space programmes on Thursday – and more on both of those shortly. Friday’s big news, however, is that the Queen has been overheard at the opening of the Welsh parliament yesterday expressing frustration with the pace of concrete action on climate change. According to Her Maj, who is still in the dark about which world leaders are going to show up to next month’s big conference in Glasgow, “It’s really irritating when they talk, but they don’t DO.”

Totally. The trouble is, even when politicians do manage to get climate action on the statute book, there will always be some people who think these sorts of rules don’t apply to them. Or to put it another way: is this the same Queen whose lawyers very recently lobbied the Scottish government in secret to change a draft law to exempt her private estates from a major carbon-cutting initiative ? Yes. Yes, it is the same Queen. As a result of this, the sovereign is the only landowner in the whole of Scotland who doesn’t have to facilitate renewable energy pipelines on her various estates in the country. Which feels, hand on heart, “really irritating”.

But back to Prince Charles, who never lets an interviewer forget that he has been banging the environmental drum for a long time now. As he put it in one self-effacing segment in his interview: “Extinction Rebellion came and did a sit-in on my driveway in Highgrove when I was on a tour … they left a letter saying … ‘Back in such a time you said such and such, you were right. Then you said something else, you were right. You were right, you were right.’ That was marvellous, that was the right kind of demonstration as far as I’m concerned.” Well, quite. Unfortunately, he couldn’t pass on his approval to XR in person because he was in the Caribbean, in a year in which the royal family’s travel-related carbon footprint doubled.

Alas, self-righteousness is not a recessive gene in HRH’s somewhat limited pool, with both of his sons feeling uniquely placed to offer prescriptions for how we, meaning others, might live better. Thus Prince William could be found this week chiding the billionaire space race currently occupying the likes of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson. According to William, “We need some of the world’s greatest brains and minds fixed on trying to repair this planet, not trying to find the next place to go and live … [It] really is quite crucial to be focusing on this [planet] rather than giving up and heading out into space to try and think of solutions for the future.”

If indeed that is solely what the different individuals are up to. We can’t speak for the ludicrous Branson, of course, though given he was one of William and Kate’s wedding guests he could presumably be reached more directly for berating by William. But various space experts have been on hand since the latter’s interview to explain that Musk’s ventures in particular offer hope for climate-saving advances, and suggesting that the prince is perhaps under-read on the subject. As indicated in this column before, I have a lot of sympathy for critiques of billionaire dick-waving via the space race, but maybe both I and William have to concede that as an intellectual point, questioning the fact that any of it is happening at all ranks alongside inquiries such as, “Why is there homelessness yet some people have multiple palaces?”

Spared such philosophical puzzles, Prince William had time to push the “fundamental question” of the carbon cost of space flights. An interesting point, and not limited to space flights. As it happens, I live very near the London spot from which many royal helicopters take off for the various visits/weekend-trips to other estates, and on those days often wonder whether it would sound slightly less like a Vietnam movie if fewer choppers were regarded as essential. As one of the boarders of, and alighters from, these flights, perhaps William could shed greater light?

Then again, maybe none of it matters if your papa has offset by planting Prince George’s Wood, as Charles has at one or other of the Scotland estates. Much nicer than a horrid renewable energy pipeline, of course, and presumably a scalable solution for all Scottish citizens.

As for things Charles and other family members might contemplate while walking through this private arboretum, are suggestions permitted? If so – and I appreciate this is a far-out theory – I do wonder whether, in all the years of bemusement that people weren’t listening to him, Charles ever considered the possibility that the problem might not be so much with the message, as with the messenger.

Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist

[tonyb-blog]

BMW F900 XR - short motorcycle trip to Scotland and the A708 (Part 2)