Hey guys! It’s IRL Monday. We’ve rounded up some vids that show how sci-fi inspires real things we can use right now. Enjoy! Possibly Related Posts: How NPCs Become Characters That Know YOU Sci-Fi IRL: The Holodeck Is Getting Smarter WondLa And How To Make Sci-Fi Kids Shows Trailer Review: Hoppers Being Excited For The…
LIVE views of Earth from space are now available to anyone with an internet connection. NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) bring us live views of Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) daily, courtesy of the High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) Project. When we watched the stream during the morning Eastern time, we…
The Andromeda Initiative is teaming up IRL with the European Space Agency to take 6 recruits through real space training! Check out the video below. With just over a month to go before release, you can be sure there will be lots more news, trailers and previews coming. Rest assured, we’ll be scouring the inter-webs…
Check out this funny sequel short from Cinestar Pictures, the production company Zoe has formed with her sisters, and Caltech’s Institute of Quantum Information and Matter (#mouthful), starring Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Dr. Stephen Hawking, Keanu Reeves and Simon Pegg’s cat. Note: This indie sci-fi short is best watched twice, especially the beginning….
Ok, if you work with After Effects AND are a sci-fi / Star Wars fan, prepare for a major geek-gasm. If you’ve never heard of Video Copilot and work with After Effects, where have you been? <joke – sort of> Video Copilot is the brainchild of Andrew Kramer and is a suite of VFX plug-ins…
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has a real life A.I. called … Jarvis. And he’s looking for a voice for it. So who stepped up and volunteered for the job? None other than Iron Man himself! Check out the full report from IGN below. Possibly Related Posts: Hoppers: Actually Hilarious How NPCs Become Characters That…
I am not editing a word of this. No italics, not quotes, nothing. You’ll know why. —The Editor My arm hurts. My hand hurts. My fingers hurt. As a writer this presents a bit of a problem. I am so used to using a keyboard that it never occurred to me how much I rely…
This is a piece on the psychological implications of virtual reality and thus it relies heavily on certain findings and beliefs held by the psychiatric community. Please be advised that if you hold beliefs that differ from those of said community that that is the basis of this particular article. We feature many different viewpoints on…
A Jedi’s greatest weapon is the lightsaber. It goes without saying really, doesn’t it? They use it in every battle whether it’s against other Jedi’s or to reflect a Stormtroopers bullets. But what we’re wondering is whether the glorious device from the Star Wars franchise can actually be built for real. It would be pretty…
It’s a weird month for science. The internet is a flurry with emotion over two things: the Planet Formerly Known as Pluto and the apparently fictional Loch Ness Monster. The dwarf planet Pluto was discovered in only 1930 and it became a part of our educational galaxy. You were bummed out if you had to…
This topic is a potential minefield to navigate, yet it is one that keeps cropping up on the internet the more and more I search. I recently went to the Science Museum in central London. As a kid, this was one of my favorite museums (the Geological was a close second—it had an earthquake machine!),…
Anything Google can do, Facebook can do better. So thinks Mark Zuckerberg the billionaire founder of the definitive social media platform. To give Zuckerberg his due, pretty much everything that’s introduced on Facebook gets used by the 1.393 billion active users (figures accurate as of February 28th 2015). Spherical video will be another fun addition…
