My avatar, they customized one for me. They already have the two-dimensional renderings, but they are still doing the 3D. I think the technical word for it is the inverse kinetics. Yeah, you can see it in two dimension here. I pasted on Skype. They are still working on making it properly animatable. Do you see it?
Yes. It’s roughly based on a previous photo that I took with random people on Twitter that says, “Can I take a photo of you?” They just bring me this outfit.
Yeah, it’s not the same glass. It’s roughly based on this picture.
Yeah, this was a monocle. They had a monocle version as well, to fit with the monocle theme. It turns out that in VR, monocles doesn’t look as hip as in real life, because it just will look like I’m missing one side of the glass. This is the monocle version. I think you will agree it doesn’t look as good.
[laughs] Right. That’s right. Michael, you’re muted.
This style of what, of costume?
What was it? I would say it’s the Taiwan model, as in fashion model. It’s an actual hashtag that we use.
The recording was a recording from the side. The large file, the hertz, almost 200 megabytes file, is a recording from their perspective in XRSPACE. If you download it, you can see it from the observer’s perspective.
That’s right, except for the parts where the connection dropped or that the screencast doesn’t work, but yes.
Actually, you get to see the selfie. The selfie is different. I don’t think they broadcasted the selfie. It may be worth your time to download and see from the 10th second to maybe the 40th second, for just half a minute.
Yes.
Yeah, that’s the overview effect. People go to space, come back to Earth, become a better person. [laughs]
Even if you saw that, I don’t think it’s the same, though, because it’s the co-presence. The experience of floating together across the mountain range, like in a helicopter ride, minus the noise. [laughs]
I think it’s the co-presence that I alluded to when Michael talk about civic space for deliberation, because the ultimate question for all those sortitions, civic assemblies, participatory budgeting, town halls.
The ultimate question is not how to make harmony or social understanding in the deliberative space, but what can you bring out of the deliberative space to your respective communities?
If there are the selfies, like the one I just shared, that can convey some sort of the meaning, or if there are access to this kind of devices, where anyone who was not part of the conversation can just put it on and put themself in the shoes of the actors.
Then actually the R value, the basic transmission rate of the co-presence will grow. That’s the essential argument I made in the piece that Michael referred.
Yes, and you can use this to 3D-scan the room you’re in.
Yeah, you can. They also offered to do a model of the cabinet office for me.
It’s important because then just being situated in, for example, a ruin of the previous Air Force headquarter and have a meaningful conversation about how beautiful we’re going to make into a Social Innovation Lab or a park, and being able to share those visions to other people in the same ruin and see different futures, so to speak, is much more transformative than the tour over these mountain ranges that we just had.
I totally agree. It’s the creative part that’s important. For the person to create, though, you need more than your hands. You probably need proper Vive controllers for that. There is also interoperability.
It’s designed as something that is social. It basically said that this is not a creator’s tool. This is a visitor’s tool, so to speak. If you want to make Unity 3D artwork, I’m sure you can get a tilt brush and draw those things, export it and import it to XRSPACE. This is not a creation tool.
That’s right.
That’s right. This is a visitor’s space. This is not our room, per se. It’s for watching together, C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate, or something like that.
Actually, it has a Web browser. Anything that you can show on a Web browser can be shown there.
In 2D. If it is 3D content, you can import that into Unity as well. Basically, anything Unity can render, it can show but it is a glorified unity viewer.
Yeah. They choose Unity over Unreal because more people can code Unity.
As for topic, for example, I had a conversation with a Japanese, interview a journalist with the name Chikaku Masuda. She just picked out a little bit like my job description. Not as finely carved, but these are just fragments of the words that I shared during that conversation, which I just pasted.
She shared that with a rap group in Japan, which they turned it into a rap song. I share with you here the YouTube. For the video part, they just used a generative adversarial network to make weird symbols from the concepts mentioned. I don’t know whether you speak Japanese, but just for your reference, here are the English translations of the lyrics that they rapped during the rap.
This is the flow that you were mentioning. This is not me sampling specifically for a rap song. This is just fragments of poetry, either from the parts of my conversation that looks poetic, or GPT-3 can generate it into a poetic style.
They just take it and basically rap it in a rhythm, and then make the visual part of it. Not in three dimensions and two dimensions, but using a very simple AI algorithm. Actually, the result is not bad. It is quite good.
I brought up GPT-3 simply because we were saying that the amount of material to work with in a, say, transcript may or may not fit into the style that Yngve was looking for, because you need certainly more than three poems for it to happen. We can automate it with GPT-3, but it doesn’t have to be GPT-3.
Yeah.
Yes. This looks red.
I like the idea that you take a basically floor and make the floor part of the space. This obviously works. That was why I intended to show Michael and you what if we just replace the floor of the ordinary meeting room into essentially an art object, because people will keep looking downward, which was not a natural thing to do, even in museums. This is great. I really like the idea.
I just did, literally looking into the floor.
Thanks for all the fish. [laughs]
No, it’s 49.
42 was the meaning of the universe, but we’re talking about 7x7.
Yeah, because you don’t have to wait for the headset. Anything that can be brought into Unity 3D from a floor perspective would equally work.
C’est la vie.
Yeah, of course, it’s my next session is just lunch, so happy to forgo that. [laughs] Anyway, but yeah, I think it’s a good intuition pump, so to speak. I don’t have more ideas. Maybe only just another presentation with just me. [laughs]
It’s a wordplay on your link, if you add a space between the L and I. [laughs] It becomes Neural Ink, right?
It doesn’t mean anything, right?
I don’t have anything. No. I think it’s good we call it a wrap now, and maybe think about pretty much anything that can be represented in Yngve 3D can be created into the in-carpet form or carpet plus wall form, which is really immersive, yeah.
OK?
As usual, live long and prosper.
OK, bye.
Sure. As the Digital Minister in charge of social innovation, I have long advocated for the idea of fast, fair, and fun in co-creating with the society. I got involved in the counter-pandemic effort around early February, when the mask rationing policy was still being made.
Exactly. People would go to like four different stores, only to find all of them has run out of medical masks. Because of that, there was a civic technologist by the name of Howard Wu, Wu Chang Wei, in Tainan City, who developed this visualization and map interactively that shows each store and how much mask they have in stock.
