Minerva is the Roman goddess of wisdom and sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy.

Yesterday marked the opening of MinervaVR. You can explore the gallery from the main lobby in JanusVR.

The virtual art show went well, now my work in producing a mixed reality show here in LA begins. I have begun to print and document some progress on Instagram [alusion_vr]. Already sold my first T-Shirt too! More prints and designs will be on the way soon, including hoodies. If you'd like one, I accept PayPal / Bitcoin and they're $25 a shirt.

Goods will be sold at the art show event in Los Angeles and can be ordered online [email]. Will release more details soon. The Net-Art / Surveillance / Mixed Reality themed part of the art show will be simultaneously virtual and physical via 360 livestreaming and projection mapping.

For one of my installation pieces, I plan to have realtime glitching by embodying the artist within AVALON. Meet AVA: Autonomous Virtual Artist.

One antenna monitors and extracts images that pass through the 80211 spectrum while the other is meant to connect to other AVALON nodes to form a mesh net. AVA is equipped with cameras so that it can process the seen with the unseen for new interesting composition possibilities [will update to a 360 camera someday.]

Explore the world around you in ways that you didn't imagine. Information that passes through here shall stain elements in the virtual worlds in interesting ways, whether it be a skybox, the textures on objects in VR, framed surfaces, or whatever else. Think chroma-key:

AVA can replace the textures with camera passthrough or debri from the WiFi traffic.

MinervaVR will sponsor you If you're an artist interested in hanging your work how it's meant to be seen while reaching a global audience. All the time. Animators can showcase their animations or even immerse the user within a 360 video gallery!

My next goal is to give the Janus multi-server love and attention it needs then work on the coolest Bitcoin integration that will have people literally throwing money at their screens ;)

Hack with us. #janusvr [freenode] babylon.vrsites.com [mumble]

See you in the metaverse. alusion.net