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| veebee |
No you're not..it all fits in nicely.
I find it a bit odd that this 17 year old has done so much.... Think we should keep an eye on him. Edited to remove Trout.  Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 3:17 am |
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| ares5000 |
wow! that's a great find! I remember looking back through the posts with hints to Microsoft, San Diego as well as AT&T as possibles. i don't know why I didn't think of it earlier. Microsoft Surface! AT&T is using Microsoft Surface for a bunch of fun stuff. I saw a demo of Surface running the Lumens game. It isn't a hologram, just a huge multi-touch interface running some slick software but they are pushing it as "the future."
Thats the official site for Surface: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/index.html Maybe I'm thinking waaaaay too much into it... Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 2:52 am |
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| alexbutterfield |
I don't have any experience of these ARGs.
Are they usually this thorough and well integrated with the rest of the internet? I've devised a couple of murder mystery nights that included riddles/puzzles but they were all done as physical challenges at my house, nothing to the extent of this, it's pretty crazy. It's hard to know what is in game and what is out of game. I followed a blog post by CodeWtrN8 to Bridger's Blog (n multi touch screens) as this is connected to the idea of haptics, i thought I'd take a look around. There is a post by CodeWtrN8 congratulating Bridger on his work. I find it hard to tell whether this is real or in-game. If it is in game there is a link to a game called Lumen (which has connections with light, and maybe holograms???) which is offered for free. In my experience you usually have to pay to download such games. Does anyone think this is in-game or am i barking up the wrong tree? http://fieryferret.com/lumen/lumen.html edit: ive tried the game seems legit. quite a cool little game though. not bad for nowt. Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 2:34 am |
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| Ignu5 |
@alexbutterfield - Welcome! That's some great sleuth work you've done! Keep it up!
@darren and addle - I've also done it. Man did I feel silly. Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 1:51 am |
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| addlepated |
No, you are not alone.  Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 1:28 am |
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| alexbutterfield |
Dr. Eugene Gough Biography
Hi, I'm Alex and I'm new to ARGs. Been reading up on this Holomove thread and although I'm no cryptographer or programmer I thought I'd stop lurking and put my thoughts down.
It seems that whatever's going on here Dr. Gough is the real mystery. Firstly he's the subject of the memo, described as having emotional issues and refusing to see the counsellor, and is refused a contract extension at LANL. This was in 1985. (this memo says that Michael, the author, cannot rationalise 14 FTEs. what does FTE mean? Edit. Full Time Employees, I guess.) Now he's credited as part of the team at Holomove (in the 'who we are' section) even though he passed away last year before the site went live. (Although the bulletin about his death is in what seems to be a retrospective archive, after the appointment of Poulopatis.) It seems strange to me that Gough started Holomove (as NexTech) in 2004 at the age of 77. That's pretty old to be founding a research and development company. There is a www.NexTech.com, I don't know if it's real or not. It's not entirely functional though from what I can gather it's about plastic surgery or something, and looks a bit under-developed to be connected to Holomove ARG (all the other links are better developed - probably a coincidence, although the only prominent feature is a graph that seems to have an exponential growth curve which has a tenuous link to the theories of Ray Kurzweil (coming up). Strangely in the 'news & events' story, Holomove, Inc. CEO Expresses Sympathy on Death of Dr. Eugene Gough, Gough is listed as dying age 60, when he should have been 80 in 2007. Probably just a typo (or a font that isn't very easy for me to read and it does say 80), as it's not a particularly well written story:
Apparently Gough was "lost in a tragic accident off the coast of Belize." In the Holomove 'news & events' the Anarchy/Reach the Future ad campaign is described. It is intended to:
I Googled Reverse Haptics, and found a link to a book called The Age of Spiritual Machines, I'd read about this book recently when I looking up the technological singularity, and so I knew it was by Ray Kurzweil... who... was the subject of the interview which contains the hidden code for the job application. Info on the book is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Spiritual_Machines So it turns out reverse haptics is the idea of technology touching the real world. Total speculation: is this ARG about a scientist who achieves a kind of immortality by creating an AI Hologram of himself with the ability to interact in the real world? Edit: also in Nathan's blog he describes how Gough's office is untouched. see: http://codewtrn8.blogspot.com/2008/04/puzzles-huh.html This blog post is very revealing. Most obviously there is the puzzle for gamers to solve with the fake answers filled in by Gough, but also this is a very telling thing to do for a man like Gough. a great puzzle solver making a mess of a puzzle as easy as 'First book ofthe old testament'. He clearly did it deliberately. But leaving a clue behind like this means that you are hiding it from someone. It makes his disappearance categorically suspicious. He knew he was going to disappear. I might post this logic in a comment for Nathan, see how he replies. Edit: Just researching everything mentioned on the Holomove site. Gough worked for Los Alamos National Labratory: which "helps to ensure the safety of the nuclear weapons stockpile and reduce the threat of terrorist attacks on our homeland." and then for Ames Laboratory "a government-owned, contractor-operated research facility of the U.S. Department of Energy that is run by Iowa State University." -- both being government facilities/websites makes them seem legit. If I was writing a game and wanted a company to include in a character's back story I'd use a government agency.[/b] Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 12:46 am |
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| danteIL |
I'm guessing this is from when he went to SXSW in March. This is when he first learns about Holomove... Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 11:55 pm |
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| redct |
Twitter: "headed to austin, looking for a job 2 months ago from web"
2 months. guess it's in planning. and I'm in Austin! And a trip to Firebug for the 1 error: It seems that Firefox at least doesn't like
EDIT: Don't know if this is a trout or not, BUT: http://codewtrn8.blogspot.com/2008/04/how-i-got-my-job-part-1.html More trackbacks to Microsoft? Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 10:51 pm |
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| OwnD |
What We Know
(so far)
Figured it would be good to have all the links and story so far in one spot
Several members of the ARG community recieved mysterious packages with censored memos, packets of Emergen-C with a strange sticker, and a folded crane. Nothing seems to be hidden in the crane. C|Net seems to have been sent this complete memo. From there, www.holomove.com was discovered. The holomove website reveals (1) a puzzle for a job application, (2) Both the Chairman and CEO of a company called Freyja Capitol and (3) that Nathan Bozeman has been hired as a lead developer. His blog has an overwhelming amount of backstory posts, dating back over a year. Googling Holomove reveals a number of "serious" recruiting/advertising results. Calling Holomove at this number from a buisiness card
results (so far) in either getting sent directly to voicemail, or being answered and THEN being directed to voicemail. In Nathan's blog, we discovered this crossword puzzle with a secret message left by Dr. Gough (Dead founder of Holomove who had been interviewed before he died) that says
Nathan was emailed about it, and he posted on his blog about it. He has also posted a number of videos on YouTube concerning his new job. Nothing interesting has shown up here yet, but there is some speculation that something relevant will be posted. Nathan has a MySpace, a LinkedIn profile, a Pownce profile, and a Zimbio profile EDITS: Various mistakes and additions *I THINK this is it so far. I'll be looking back and see if I've missed anything **Has anyone looked up Freyja Capitol and signed up their email yet? Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 10:50 pm |
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| Darren Knight |
BTW, found this. Im not sure if it is IG or preproduction but it dosent seem like it is in use or will be in use any time soon.
https://twitter.com/nathanbozeman Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 10:39 pm |
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| jabroni |
I think you're right, Nate said Holomove just launched the site this week.
Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 10:36 pm |
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| Darren Knight |
Im just going to interject here for some comic relief:
I'm sorry, but this has been the eighth time today I have done this and I want to share with you guys. Am I the only idiot in this forum that cant remember 'Holomove'? Eight times today (yes ive counted) I have mistyped 'Holomove.com' and put 'Homolove.com'...and now I (rightfully) feel like a moron. That is all. EDIT: OwnD to answer your question, the site started up on Monday so that was probably what they had up while the site was in development. Probably some sort of glitch but if you get it up again I would check the source. Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 10:28 pm |
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| OwnD |
Whoa....I went to holomove.com and what came up was this (I had to highlight the screen)
5/5/08? But that was three days ago! And what is it supposed to mean? P.S. Notice how it says "Done, but with errors on the page" at the bottom left. Wonder what happened? EDIT: Had to crop the image so I didn't mess with the width of the page
But this is what the website showed. Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 10:19 pm |
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| ares5000 |
ill be down in San Diego next weekend.....
Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 10:15 pm |
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| Varin |
I'm am pretty positive that is the case.  Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 8:58 pm |
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