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Virtual Predictions

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Love. What people will do to prove their love to others. We give jewelry, we travel to exotic places, we built monuments. All this to prove that our love is real, to give it a tangible presentation, in order to leave no doubt. These acts of love, often has a large cost. Weddings may be the best known, as they often set people back financially for decades, aquiring large sums in debt. But we still do it. When we transfer most of our communication to the virtual three-dimensional world, what happens to love? In the virtual world we are only limited by memory, which is already close to unlimited. When we're all rich enough and capable to create the most incredible of dreams for our significant others, will our definition of love change again? Will the currency (LOVE) lose value or become even stronger? Already we have seen this. Proposals built into video games, love declarations on websites, videos and images. What will be the virtual version of Taj Mahal and who will build it? ...

The Singularity Relegation

The Singularity is explained often by Ray Kurzweil, inventor, writer, futurist(and more), as a prediction of what outcome our exponentially growing advancement in technologies like computers, genetics, nanotechnology, robotics and artificial intelligence will bring. He explains that within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to the Singularity- a technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history. If somewhere in all this, a self-aware, conscious, living entity would emerge inside a super intelligent machine, there are already some examples in science fiction, that predicts this would eventually result in war between the human race and a machine intelligence... Or the merging of our two races as we would have spent a lot of time towards the Singularity to make ourselves more and more compatible with them, even down to the biological level. Where our nerves now are capable to directly communica...

My Virtual Canvas

My imagination is very first person based. Most of my written and animation work is done from a first person perspective. That's a hard perspective to convey. One must often resort to illusions and tricks in order to convince the reader or viewer to feel as if they were in that same position.Or at least be very descriptive at the risk of boring the crowd.  But I always feel unaccomplished when I do. I always have that thought, if only I could truly show that vision, convey that sensation so they would understand my work completely. So that they don't misinterpret or miss the point about the whole thing. So I have to explain it step by step, why this or that happened, when it should be clear from the get go. This is why I think virtual reality is the canvas I've been waiting for. I can put you exactly where I need you to be, and show you the story I want to tell. To truly immerse you in my creation. You might have a subconscious fear of going to an art gallery, seeing ...

Our God Complex

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"We are the gods now" The human race is especially good at giving personality to the things around us. One can ask whether that has something to do with our upbringing, as children where we gave our toys names and decided who the good guy and the bad guy was. Though they often are inanimate objects. Are we constantly directing our own hero's journey, or is it something else? If we look at ourselves in adulthood and consider our history and different religions, we discover the signs of same way of thought. Our primitive fear which serves as our brain's survival mechanism which was once more defensive, has evolved into the opposite where our reaction to fear often is offensive. We demand action, and seek an immediate explanation for what we do not understand. And we conjure up our own ideas if answers aren't given. The weather phenomenon lightning and the thunder that follows could have inspired an entire religion, where Thor swings his hammer while...

Some Words On Inspiration And Creativity (Updated)

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There is no such thing Before I begin, I must insist you realize this fact: There is no such thing as originality. If you've ever tried to be "original", you will recognize what I mean when I say you came to a complete blank. You might once have thought you had something original, only to find that someone were already doing it even better than you had imagined in the first place. Originality is only a word people like to use to describe things that are so different, they cannot recognize its origin. Find the origin So whatever you decide to do, know where the activity originates. If you want to transcend in any particular field, to be genuinely inspired I strongly recommend you go back to the starting point. To the first ideas and creations in your particular field. Whether it is music or the arts. The first string instruments, the first composers, the first to draw pictures on walls, the first innovators of technology. Read some history on the matter. Focus on wha...

New Technologies And The Super Powers They Bring

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What if you had the power to see through walls? Like this tank driver in Norway. What if you could control robots with only your mind? What if you had super-human strength? Some might say these aren't superpowers, just recent advancements in technology. I would say you are already using super powers every day, that we didn't even have 25 years ago. You communicate telepathically using your wireless cellphone every single day and you have access to most of human history instantly on a single tiny device that's in your pocket. Have you even considered what things would have been like if the internet or computers had not improved exponentially the last couple of decades? There would be no tweets. No facebook updates. No instagram photos. Closest thing to tweets would be a black marker on a bathroom wall. You would find that even your biggest library, was never sufficient. You would have to find a payphone in an emergency. Pictures of ...

The Oculus Shift

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About a month ago I made this video where I try to show what kind of experiences we can have with virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift and Sony's Project Morpheus. I use some examples from movies and I also show what games are currently in development. The scenes are from movies like "Love"(2011), which I found to be incredible, for something that was supposed to be a short film for a music album release. Also featured are scenes from the movie "Gravity", which has been described as a movie "made of the Oculus Rift" with it's incredible depiction of space walking in orbit around our planet Tellus, aka Earth. Another set of scenes are from the cult film "Blade Runner" and "The Fifth Element", both science fiction worlds fans will mention as places they would love to see. I see now that I could have featured scenes from "Avatar" as well, but I'm sure someone is working on something in that direction an...