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Mon. 02/08 - A Live Animated Stage Production... Wait, what?

Cool Stuff Ride Home

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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How the Royal Shakespeare Company is using live motion capture to animate a virtual show in real time. A case study of a California town who has this whole pandemic response thing down. A 3D printed house has hit the market on Long Island. And there’s actually still more to say about Four Seasons Total Landscaping? Plus some related recommendations. Sponsors: Fitbod, Get 25% off a membership when you sign up now through 2/28 at Fitbod.me/kottke Lightstream, Get a special interest rate discount at lightstream.com/kottke Links: Is this an avatar I see before me? Audience takes to stage in virtual Shakespeare play (The Guardian) Remote actors thread (Brendan Bradley, Twitter) Dream (Royal Shakespeare Company) A California University Tries to Shield an Entire City From Coronavirus (NY Times) A 3D printed house is for sale in New York. Builders say it will cut housing construction costs (CNN)  A 3D-Printed Home Just Popped up on Zillow for a Cool $300,000 (Gizmodo) Biggest 3D Printed House in America ALMOST COMPLETE Part 3 (Jarett Gross, YouTube) At Foggy Pine Books, Customers Like Tom Hanks Know Every Book Is An Adventure Waiting To Happen (The Late Show, YouTube) Opportunity Knocks | Fiverr Big Game Commercial Extended Cut (2021) (Fiverr, YouTube) Inevitable Four Seasons Total Landscaping doc to be titled Four Seasons Total Documentary (A/V Club) My Recent Media Diet, the Still Isolated Edition (Kottke) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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welcome to the khaki ride home for monday fe February 8th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.

0:42.3

How the Royal Shakespeare Company is using live motion capture to animate a virtual show in real time.

0:50.8

A case study of a California town who has this whole pandemic response thing down.

0:57.5

A 3D printed house has hit the market in Long Island.

1:01.6

And there's actually still more to say about four seasons total landscaping, plus some related recommendations.

1:09.6

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:14.8

One thing I feel like I haven't spent enough time thinking about is how the pandemic will change art.

1:20.3

Not just what kind of pandemic-themed stories we'll see and have already begun to see,

1:25.2

but literally how it will change the medium for some things.

1:29.3

It's something that a lot of other people have been thinking about, however, and some

1:33.1

technologies that were previously relegated to low-budget college tinkering are starting to get

1:38.7

their moment in the spotlight and the funding to boot.

1:42.4

Here's one example.

1:43.8

The Royal Shakespeare Company in England is putting

1:46.2

on a virtual production using real-time animation created by actors in a motion capture space

1:53.1

who will interact live with virtual audiences. So basically, they have actors in motion capture suits

1:59.5

and facial rigging with corresponding

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