Second life has just put out a test version of Puppetry a thing that will let u track your hands and face etc using your webcam. it’s a bit of a faff to set up but with lots of help from Chaser Zaks we got it running.and Kevin Thomas who made me write up the instructions agaisnt my will. I thought I should attempt a idiots guide to getting it all to work. (Windows 10 version only) I found a lot of the instructions terrifying coder speak, I'm no coder but I have spent time amongst those kinds of people. Many of the stuff you need to do was new to me but if you’re coder you were born knowing this stuff command windows - that black window people make u open when you broke your pc a pip install- the nerd way things will be installed in the future- u just type what you're told to type in the dos window or the equally terrifying PowerShell blue window of fear, that is the same kind of thing as a dos window # Instructions There are a few bits of software that ne
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What the metaverse can learn from r/place If you were watching reddit this April fools, you should have seen the return of the place. It’s a wonderful idea Each reddit user can place a single-coloured pixel anywhere they choose once every 5 mins in a predetermined whiteboard space It becomes a mirror of global society in many ways Individually people don’t have much influence or power but by banding together into groups they can begin to create images a single pixel at a time. Anyone can make anything if they can form a big enough movement. Then these groups solidify and as they expand, they get more power. And as a mirror to real life they begin to create treaties between neighbouring projects. I noticed little hearts between projects indicating some kind of truce. Then people start creating weapons. Well scripts people can load to automate the placing of the correct pixels in the correct place. More ambitious projects can form. The entire place started to look l