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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The Canadian Film Centre wrote about Janet Murray (Georgia Tech) who is understandably wary of VR over-hype among the film folk. “All this opens up a large palette but people can draw on the wrong parts of it,” she says. “We don’t have a viewer now – we have an interactor. And since the interactor is bringing all that movie sophistication to the table because of the highly elaborated visual vocabulary and storytelling we’ve experienced in film, that raises our level of expectation.”
Read the full article here: http://cfccreates.com/news/vr-revolution
