- #FutureOfFiction, #FutureOfStorytelling, #Unity, Greyville Writer's Colony, interactive books, interactive content, Interactive Novel, Random
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…
- #FutureOfFiction, #FutureOfStorytelling, #Opensim, #Unity, #VirtualReality, evolving-book, Greyville Writer's Colony
Is Opensim Dying or Evolving?
It’s a question we’re all asking ourselves right now. We see grids closing. We hear all the whispers of doom. We wonder what the future holds for Opensim. We’ve been quiet at Nara’s Nook lately, but not because we depressed about the future. Summer is the time we work on our big projects with an aim to taking them public in the fall. Add to that the main server at Nook was way past it’s prime and everything had to be moved and set up on a new server. We’re back up and running so feel free to visit again. As to the question at hand: I came to…
Yarny Gets a Rescue!
About a week or so ago I had a message in email that Yarny was closing down. Last night I got another message that Yarny had been rescued and would now be hosted on servers at Cook Center for Entrepenuership This is important because we use Yarny on our Inworld Laptops. In fact it is the only thing I know of now that lets me write for free from any device I have. In addition, Yarny is like a cloud version of Scrivner which is a favorite tool for novelists. I admit the number of writers who write their tales on pixel laptops and need a word processor that allows…
