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from minecraft shelters and animal crossing islands to VR bedrooms and contested digital real estate, video games have become places where people build a sense of home. The post building a life in virtual worlds: the places we inhabit and lose appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine .

Postquant Labs’ quip network is launching Quantum Echoes, the first digital collectibles generated by actual quantum computers, available September 14, 2026.

Piling sight, sound, touch, smell and taste into digitally enhanced tourist attractions does not automatically make visitors more engaged, according to research from the University of Surrey.

The screwball French comedy is back as a film that actually works, thanks to putting Andréa and Noémie at the heart of chaotic events and bringing all the old faces back At last: a beloved-TV-show-to-film-spinoff that doesn’t suck! The original French series is a screwball-speed office comedy about a boutique Parisian talent agency, and was a ratings and critical success in its homeland when it s…

Vintage Emulator Studio brings iconic vintage synths and samplers to life — MAME-powered component-level emulation should offer exceedingly accurate sound

Draft legislation enforces digital duty of care including limiting children’s exposure to misogynistic and eating disorder content Australia will allow social media account holders to opt out of the powerful algorithms pushing dangerous and divisive content into users’ feeds, part of new laws designed to boost online safety. Users over 16 years of age will be given new tools to turn off algorithm…

Childhood friends claim to have witnessed the disappearance of a schoolkid in this low-budget comedy caper that pushes limits of storytelling Modestly scaled and intricately structured, Kwok Ka-Hei and Jack Lee Chun-Kit’s comedy is a capriciously playful send-up of true crime aficionados and wannabe influencers, done with affection rather than malice. It revolves around a (fictional) 25-year-old …
A friend of mine works in e-commerce and often needs to reuse or edit videos that already have text or subtitles burned into them. That got me looking into ways to remove text from video without having to edit it frame by frame. I tried a few existing tools and APIs, and eventually found Alibaba's VideoDetext. The results were good enough for the kind of videos I was testing, and running the API …
Scientific Reports, Published online: 07 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-69716-8 Steganography in procedurally generated normal maps via angular half-bin relabeling embedding

Uncanny Alley: A New Day, a live theatre production performed inside VRChat for six people at a time, took Outstanding Emerging Media Program at the Creative Arts Emmys.

A bizarre Commodore 64 peripheral, a mime, and some pretty bad ads Two years of nightmarish smiles and makeup before anyone laid hands on Mimic Systems' actual product. This newsletter does not include sponsored posts, affiliate links, or ads (except the ones we make fun of together). Analytics and tracking are disabled. And there is no paid upgrade or AI-generated content. Enjoy! “Sir, we don’t …

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is changing the way digital art is created and shared. It provides new opportunities for faster content creation but it also creates concerns about artists careers and creative ownership. This study examined how freelance and professional artists perceive the growing use of GenAI in the creative industry. A descriptive quantitative research design was us…

I love this kind of synergy between art and technology — another demonstration of how these two concepts really aren’t separate after all. People build up so many experiences over their lives, each moment layering on the previous one to create a uniquely complex tapestry. When we die, all of this is lost to thermal […]
This article introduces Samsung Electronics’ next-generation gaming displays and hands-on events unveiled at Gamescom 2026.
Eco Wave Power U.S. Inc., has entered into an agreement with Germany-based AI engineering GmbH to develop a physics- and data-driven digital twin platform for Eco Wave Power’s proprietary wave energy technology.The collaboration advances Eco…

Finding Frida is a 41-minute VR documentary at Venice Immersive using photorealistic 3D scans and animated artwork to explore the life of forgotten Norwegian textile artist Frida Hansen.
Two decades ago entertainment did not pander to you. You watched shows when they aired and patiently waited

This article introduces LifeSync-Games, a pervasive game design framework that reflects real-world physical and cognitive states in games.

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