Dec 12 2008
Can machinima describe immersive 3D better than a slide presentation?
Hey, I don’t know if it can, but I’m going to give it a try. Here’s how I am making an attempt to support a lecture Explorations, Publishing GIS Data as Immersive 3D Services to an academic brown-bag lunch.
On the edges of geospatial informatics, professional GIS practice, and video gaming systems, there is an Outland that too few have been frequenting: shared third-person (immersive) eD models of real-world spaces. These offer an engaging mirror of our world that can present GIS data with great fidelity and connect it in important ways with ordinary human experience.
Now for the video rush. I’ve seriously backslid on my better-production-values efforts, and haven’t yet spliced two takes, added titles, nor dubbed in sound. But I did reboot my annoying Windows machine before running FRAPS and the SL client, and things were reasonably OK. All this work was shot in and near the Second Life regions of Amida, Muir, and Gualala, with some Limantour in the background. Compared with my earlier “Levels 1, 2, 3″ machinima, this one spends quite a bit more time focused on the benefits of Level 3 builds, and I actually had things pretty well rezzed during the shooting.
This is today’s video, if it doesn’t embed, the link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2agB4iRDkIM