Code/Design/Biz guy. ♥ Tech, Games, VR, AR, Travel, Food. Cofounder at @CoopInnovations and Green-Bit SpecialEffect Ambassador, @uk_ie board. (he/him)
Bingley, Yorkshire, UK
Joined January 2009
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📣 RE:FORMAT week is here!!!📣
This Thursday, kick off the FORMATGG 2025 event season with our RE:FORMAT x Gaming Rally | Game Industry Summit taking place in our home town of Manchester! 🐝
150+ games industry leaders join us for a day of epic networking.
4 more sleeps!! 🧡
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A new paper by @Cambridge_Uni academics across economics, policy and ML says the UK government should rethink their proposal on AI and copyright
cam.ac.uk/research/news/forc…
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UK has a serious problem: we're great at AI and createch start-ups but bad at supporting them to scale. We lose too many great firms and our greatest talent overseas. We're becoming an 'incubater economy'. This needs to change if we're really serious about economic growth. 🧵1/
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We are live now with @CoopInnovations, @aflorithmic, @synthesiaIO.
We'll be discussing their experiences scaling up creative technology businesses in the UK.
Watch live:
parliamentlive.tv/event/inde…
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Ghost Town announced for Quest, PS VR2 & PC VR
🧩 Single-player VR puzzler
👻 Play as ghost hunter, Edith Penrose
🕰️ From The Room devs, @Fireproof_Games
Wishlists are live:
Meta: buff.ly/40qelvm
PS VR2: buff.ly/40soEiO
PC VR: buff.ly/3YJuxXm
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As widely rumoured, the UK government is considering legalising gen AI training on copyrighted work without a licence.
This would be a huge betrayal of the UK’s creators. It would mean letting AI companies use creators’ work to build highly scalable AI models that will directly compete with them.
This cannot be allowed. All UK creators, and the millions of people who benefit from the brilliant work that comes from the UK’s creative industries, should oppose this.
ft.com/content/26bc3de1-af90…
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HOLY $%@# WE SIGNED A PUBLISHER. Microprose is publishing Cleared Hot 🤯😮
Our nostalgic helicopter game is growing up. RTs appreciated, Wishlist it on Steam!
I grew up playing Microprose games. This feels a bit unreal. Thanks to everyone who got us this far 🙏
Simon Barratt retweeted
My talk on Procedural Content Generation is live! I strongly recommend this talk regardless of where you're at because I deliberately went through from nothing to a pretty comprehensive scene with some tricks I don't really see online normally. youtu.be/ncokCVoN-oU?si=t-jY…
Simon Barratt retweeted
I wrote a thing...
"10 years of Dear ImGui" (long post) 🎉
github.com/ocornut/imgui/iss…
Simon Barratt retweeted
Spline, 296 chars #つぶやきGLSL
for (O *= i; ++i < 200.; O += pow(.003 / abs(length(p - sin(i * .111 * sin(n)) * vec2(sin(e = i * .07 * sin(n) * cos(n - 3.5) + n + n), cos(e))) + sin(n * 4. + i * .033 + l) * .015) * (1. + cos(i*.02+l*2.+3.-n-n+vec4(0,1,2,0))),O-O+1.2));
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You see this, this is what happens in real life. The bots can't show up on the streets.
On the right there (yeah the far right) are the 6 nazis who turned up to cause mayhem.
Everyone else is there to stop them.
This is England.
Simon Barratt retweeted
This is what a mass movement against fascism looks like. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
Tens of thousands of us standing strong across the country. #StandUptoRacism
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We're hiring!
We're looking for a Programme Communications Officer to join the @DigSchoolhouse team.
You'll play an essential role in the smooth running of Digital Schoolhouse and be the the initial point of contact for teachers.
Find out more 👇 zurl.co/oHST
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We are so excited to be sharing this milestone with the industry at large hoping to spur innovation and learning from real-world production datasets! Michael Vance just shared more details about this massive dataset at @siggraph #rtradvances
The release of a new open-source data set, features the map Caldera from Call of Duty: Warzone for non-commercial use. This data set release contains near-complete geometry of Caldera and in-game character pathing. Read more 👇
bit.ly/3yhV8Ax
Simon Barratt retweeted
Celebrating the news that The Pirate Queen VR has been Emmy-nominated! So happy to have been involved with this wonderful project, and congratulations to the team at @SingerStudiosUK
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Investigation reveals that a dataset used for gen AI training by Apple & others contains copyrighted YouTube transcripts accessed without permission. More info:
- The Pile dataset contains transcripts of 170k YouTube videos
- Used by Apple, Anthropic, Nvidia, Salesforce & more to train LLMs
- YouTube doesn’t allow this, so were transcripts accessed illegally?
- Transcripts were taken without the knowledge of the YouTube creators, who include @MrBeast, @MKBHD & many more
- This is against creators’ wishes: some are “frustrated”, one calls it “theft”
- Dataset includes videos that have since been deleted from YouTube (but you can’t delete them from a scraped dataset)
- At least some of the AI companies knew it included YouTube video transcripts but trained on it anyway
- At least one of the AI companies uses the excuse that Eleuther (a non-profit) did the scraping, not them. (This is a common line from AI companies.)
- As ever, one of the AI companies uses the excuse that the dataset is “publicly available”, apparently ignoring the fact that the data is copyrighted and may have been accessed illegally
It is all too common that one organization scrapes copyrighted work, claiming ignorance of how it will be used, and another (often a large tech company) trains a commercial AI model on that scraped work.
This is exploitative of creators, and cannot be permitted.
wired.com/story/youtube-trai…
Simon Barratt retweeted
Calling all emerging digital artists in Bradford: applications for £1000 micro-grants are open until 21 July! Spread the word 📣
3x Open Call grants
2x Digital Performance grants
bdartslab.art
Simon Barratt retweeted
The Develop:Star Awards 2024 Supporting Star winner is @GameRepublic! Congratulations! ⭐️ #DevelopStars
Simon Barratt retweeted
Chris Bryant MP @RhonddaBryant has been appointed Minister of State in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport @DCMS
He has also been appointed Minister of State in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology @SciTechgovuk
ALT Sir Chris Bryant appointed Minister of State in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport
