Working in immersive media can be tough if you aren’t living in a major metropolitan city. Often you can feel excluded and find it tough to work with other companies. One thing that isn’t talked about often enough is how prevalent remote work is in this industry! I know personally I’ve lived in cities that…
In ever-changing industries it can be hard to feel like you have secure footing underneath you. Especially as media technologies seem to completely change every few years, thriving in this space can feel daunting. But how do your favourite artists do it? They almost make it seem easy and like they’re constantly one (or more!)…
As immersive designers and TouchDesigner developers, it’s important to always be looking for ways to streamline our workflow and improve our skills. In our last ChatGPT post, we explored some of the ways that ChatGPT, a programming helper and learning tool, can be useful for those working in these fields. In this post, we’ll delve…
ChatGPT is an impressive tool that you’ve almost certainly heard about in the news or in blog posts. You’ve also likely seen conversation about it replacing artists, writers, and coders. In this post, I’m going to show you a few ways you can use ChatGPT as a productive helper tool for interactive artists, immersive developers,…
Immersive design and creative technologist roles require you to know quite a lot about multiple skills. This can feel overwhelming and frustrating for veteran pros and new talent. In this post, we’ll cover the 6 core competencies we’ve identified that every immersive design and creative technologist needs to be confident in their work. The Depth…
Face tracking in TouchDesigner is one of the most exciting new features to come out recently. This is thanks to the implementation of the NVIDIA RTX face tracking features included in the Maxine SDK. Let’s dive into setting this up! Setting up face tracking in TouchDesigner Setting up face tracking is actually quite easy in…
Have you ever wanted to stream YouTube videos or other video platforms directly into TouchDesigner? Previously this was kind of possible, but the performance of the playback wasn’t anything to write home about and it was technically impossible to do any meaningful audio routing. With the latest 2022 updates to TouchDesigner, both of these problems…
We’ve gotten through a lot of topics in our dive into networking information you need to be most successful with your interactive and immersive installations. In part 1 we covered IPs and then we dove into ports, firewalls, and TCP vs UDP in part 2. In part 3, we’re going to take a look at…
Picking up where we left off in our part 1, we’re going to look at some common terms and communication protocols. While some brains may melt when thinking about computer networking (mine included!), I guarantee that these concepts and pieces of knowledge will be used in your career working on interactive technology and immersive media…
It’s tough to operate in the current industry without your devices being network connected. On top of your day-to-day ability to join WiFi networks and connect to devices, interactive and immersive installations require an even deeper knowledge of networking to get things like OSC, UDP, and other networking protocols working! In this series of posts,…