8 Aug 2024

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Pooky on Planet X

Tips & Tricks for the Metaverse.......with Pooky Amsterdam

Brooklyn is the island of my birth, and though it has seen many changes since then, it is still the place to find origins. Last week I was able to go to Planet X an amazing LED / Unreal Engine / Greenscreen / Mocap studio space through the auspices of NYWIFT and check out behind the scene, or behind the screen, production facilities. In a refurbished car wash, this new filmset has appeared. Darin Friedman is running a great operation. everything is tightly organized but the results are panoramic. Like The Mandalorian uses the same kind of 20 feet tall LED screen to create places that would be far too expensive to film on, such as Mars or Alpha Centauri. Or even find in this Solar System.

Q: What's next for Metaverse Entertainment?

The incorporation of Unreal Engine into gaming platforms can only help this more and more viable and exciting way of providing backdrops, atmosphere and more. John MacInnes had a "mise en scene" challenge for his followers. All the tools for creating them exist in Unreal Engine. Lighting, character, sets and props.

Today the incredible Jo Redfern just posted an article from Variety on the kind of collaboration that is perfectly aligned for where we are in technology and expression right now. "Hypergalactic" will get a boost from Spaceport, Roblox and Fortnite. It is the edge of tomorrow, today. This allows the millions of players to see a film, to support it and to fan fiction it within the games they both play in and identify with.

User Generated Content is part and parcel of the Metaverse experience. We live our stories as animated characters and can generate stories, creating our own origins and formulating experiences which live vividly in both our imaginations and reality. We identify with what we make, and while our avatars are an ultimate kind of creation, they are separate from our biological self, yet imbued with all the thought, energy and emotions of who we are. 

Being able to create content from a Metaverse platform can create great brand building, playing with an object in a positive way can represent a product moving from virtual good into one's actual closet or refridgerator.

Using the Metaverse as an entertainment platform to create films, video series and real-time game shows is in my core DNA.With over 200 avatar based real-time game shows and a large portfolio of films mainly using the Second Life platform, I might have been an early adopter, but using these kind of vehicles has always made sense to me because they reach people where they are. With VR it's all getting closer.

Brooklyn will also be the home in Fall / Winter 2024 to the first Volumetric Video production facility in New York.  ZeroSpace is coming! Bingeable VRTV is a next step, where we will be able to enter the program, movies and shows alongside the virtual performers. 

I have my 10-part musical series ready to go.

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