This is Sony’s Spatial Reality Display, and you can buy one for $5,000 in November

The Verge: Two days ago, I received a giant heavy metal wedge from Sony. The largest side contained a camera, and a 15.6-inch 4K screen.

I plugged it into a powerful gaming computer, and fired up the first demo. A tiny, intricately detailed Volkswagen Atlas materialized in front of my face — and when I pressed a button, it floated right up out of the screen.

Mayflower 400: how we brought the pilgrims' ship to life using VR technology

theconversation.com: It’s almost impossible, 400 years later, to imagine the scene in September 1620, when groups of English Puritans took their last look at the land of their birth while descending a few damp, slippery steps in Sutton Pool (today, the Barbican), Plymouth. How they felt while being ferried out to the Mayflower, a cramped, creaking square-rigged merchant ship, moored outside the harbour – and what they thought of the vessel, with its basic facilities and cargo.

Facebook’s Project Aria and the race to map reality.

slate.com: Smart glasses are the holy grail of augmented reality, which promises to overlay digital content on top of the physical world (think Pokémon Go, except with a lot more than cartoon characters). Seemingly every company in Silicon Valley is interested in AR, but on Wednesday, Facebook took a big step to the front of the pack with its announcement of “Project Aria.”

Lessons in Online Theatremaking from New Paradise Laboratories’ Whit MacLaughlin

HowlRound Theatre Commons: Thirteen years ago, Whit MacLaughlin, the Obie-winning artistic director of Philadelphia’s New Paradise Laboratories, began slamming theatre into the internet. Fatebook (2009) was the first production and Extremely Public Displays of Privacy (2011) was next.

Here we are now with the pandemic COVID-19. Overnight, our functions as theatremakers have changed. Virus control methods have closed theatres and schools. Methods of communication and gathering have shifted online to create social distance and flatten the curve.

Take the Hell Out of Hell Week

AMERICAN THEATRE: “Hell week” doesn’t actually have to be hell. Sure, it can mean long hours in the theatre, with first tech runs that can make even the most confident practitioners question if it will all come together. But it still doesn’t need to be awful. What’s the key to a more humane tech? It can be as simple as remembering that everyone involved is human.

THE CHER SHOW Cancels Final Performance in Chicago Due to Technical Error

www.broadwayworld.com: The Cher Show cancelled its final performance in Chicago, which was set for today, July 15, due to a technical issue. The issue was announced to the audience shortly after the show was set to begin. A mini concert was performed in lieu of the full production, including 4 songs.

Why Does The Tech Crew Wear Black?

ProSoundWeb: If you’ve been around this production madness long enough to know an input from an output, you’ve heard the jokes. You’ve identified the truth. You’ve done the math.

Show crews almost always wear black, even when they don’t have to. Any exception to that rule is usually going to be someone very high or very low in the pecking order.

I’ve had this verified many times. Going dark becomes a choice. But until recently, I’d never considered why. Additional “deep questions” along these lines: Why is laundry day the same for production folks? Why do we panic at the smell of bleach? But I digress…