Category: digital culture

So cool! From New World Notes

New World Notes: Watch: Juggling VRChat-Based Objects from Real Life Via Motion Tracking! (blogs.com)...

A New Virtual Campus

Caltech is among the very best universities in the world, famous for being the home of Richard Feynman and other science legends. (And perhaps even more famously, for being the setting for Big Bang.) Now it’s helping drive a rebirth in educational uses for virtual worlds with Virtech:  Virtech is an interactive,...

GodWeb

GodWeb covers world religions and spiritualities, focusing on how various world traditions relate to each other. It includes practical resources: prayers, sacred texts and holiday calendars....

Art, Philosophy and Virtual Reality

For any number of reasons, several of which are explored on these pages, virtual worlds offer fertile soil for artists, philosophers and theologians, in fact, anyone with a penchant for reflecting on the meaning of life. This short movie (referred to by virtual world enthusiasts as “machinima”) now showing...

Real Clear Politics

RealClearPolitics is an American political news site and polling data aggregator. It was created in 2000 by former options trader John McIntyre and former advertising agency executive Tom Bevan. This site is a great place to go if you seek informed opinion from all political perspectives as well as...

The Whitney Museum

The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as the “Whitney“, is an art museum in Manhattan. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), a wealthy and prominent American socialite and art patron after whom it is named. The Whitney focuses on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Its permanent collection, spanning the late-19th...