Vision Pros, Cyphers & 3D Futures We Generate Today

I took a few weeks off from writing this newsletter to work on a few key projects. Here's a bit more on that work from various public sites and sources:

A NEW ALBUM & BAND: AURICLES

@AuriclesAI aka AURICLES the band now has its first single out featuring the amazing music of Will Henshall with lyrics curated through explorations with over a dozen LLMs throughout this year. You'll hear those experiments in a full album of releases we're in the mix and master on now for summer. While this first track is designed to be accessible for all ages, future singles sound harder and more 90s industrial EDM, for those who crave a mix of sounds in their speakers.

This first single *We Are All Stardust* features the cypher of Marcus Bell in a process in the studio that's fascinating as an exploration of the symbiosis between the digital tools, the generative transformers and the human creative process. Cyphers for this album are made in Eleven Labs and some samples will be offered for remixing with Creative Commons attribution/non-commercial options for those of you seeking to experiment with similar types of media production workflows. The cypher of Marcus Bell sounds distinctly different than Marcus -- it is in no way a replication of who they are as a performer. Similar to what you may notice in #AIart representations, there is little true representation of who the human is when generative media mixes the works with millions of others....it's a different form of collective media altogether.

While this first single is designed to be very accessible and family friendly for a wide variety of audiences, future tracks are designed for flow states and #trance #EDM dance mixes including some darker industrial and heavy bass vibes. Remixes, DJ/VJ allies and participation are welcome; HMU to get in & Realitycraft with us.

GoogleIO, Stori/Chaptr and White Mirror

Over the last few weeks I've given over a dozen talks and moderated/shared on 5 panels related to XR, AI and ethical production with our immersive and interactive toolkits. As these conversations heat up in public, there's a very real human process also playing out among collaborators who are choosing to galvanize and work together on these topics. The language engineering inside of promptcraft is at the heart of this conversation along with the choices we make.

At Google the audience was huge and the stakes are high: how do we create meaningful generative media for all ages that's both safe and respectful of everything that has come before it? While these are not simple questions with easy answers, my teams at Chaptr, Stori and White Mirror are exploring these questions actively together as creators, producers and engineers working together on new story worlds, short film projects and other multimedia releases.

Ethical design and engagement was the main topic of conversation at AWE with XR Guild with just a few people in the room as we discussed the essential elements of ethical design moving forward, both for creators as well as for companies announcing headsets like Apple's #VisionPro announcement this week.

Vision Pro is a medical and enterprise training device first; it's priced for business buyers and less for the individual to use at home for play. At XRGuild.org we welcome creators of all types, hardware and media alike to join us as we help each other develop more meaningful experiences for these platforms.

LA & SF TECH WEEK TALKS

This week I'm traveling to Los Angeles to speak at events for LA Tech week.

Los Angeles: Synthetic Media Summit on June 8th

Entertainment Technology Center hosts great events and this is their inaugural summit for #AI and #GenerativeMedia #Production #TechnicalMedia - we're up first in the morning with creative media talks on works like these.

Most of the videos in this post including this one are made using #kaiber - a well-organized new product in the #GenerativeVideo space that's useful for abstract and beautiful restyled video works like this light art installation we spoke under at Gray Area this week: https://grayarea.org/exhibitions/techs-mechs/ outlines this art by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, restyled video shot last week after our panel on how artists choose their engagement with our generative media tools.

What types of worldbuilding and 3D generative tools are you most interested in exploring for future posts here? I test 10-30 new tools a month and will be happy to share more with you here across #XR #AI and #Generative #SyntheticMedia topics.