Why The Tech Giants Want to Buy the Metaverse…
We make magic here I’m talking the homegrown and handmade sort of magic. Stories that cast a spell. Art that transports you to another reality. Music that picks you up and puts you back together after a lousy day. The kind of magic made when ordinary people with no power or influence do powerful things. Why they’ll fail Biting into homegrown tomato—one carefully tended and left on the vine to go ripe in the July heat, one so fragrant you can breathe in the flavor, one fattened on summer rain—is an experience that will turn you away from the pale, fragrance-free, flavorless things produced on a factory farm. Art needs…
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Bringing Interactive Virtual Environments to the Kindle
Don’t tell Mr Bezos but I hacked my Kindle so I could download apps from the Google Play store. I particularly wanted to be able to get a better browser. In answer to a user question as to whether the storytelling environment we are building would run in Chrome. This is Chrome running on a Kindle Fire HD 10. I believe the OS for that is a fork of Android 7 (Nougat). There is no navigation interface for mobile devices in our app yet. It is a goal. The ultimate goal of this project is to create storytelling environments that will run inside an ebook. Let’s say you are…
Future Freebie Awesomeness
I spent the morning editing broken links generated by my move to WordPress and updating old social media contacts in books and such. Much to the annoyance of the dog, who has moved from heavy sighs to upside down with all four paws in the air, now groaning like she will die if we don’t go out and play for a bit. So I’m gonna go play and if you’d like a free copy of Snatch Me, my virtual world romance novel, I think you can get one by clicking this link and following instructions. Let me know if it doesn’t work. Yes, you have to sign up for…
