Sun
Apr
18
Shonzilla, a pattern-seeking animal
Life is a game of patterns and chance, and those who play well will win.
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Mon
Feb
15
Here’s another jawdropping TED video from Blaise Agüera y Arcas who definitely knows how to reverse-engineer 3D spaces by using geo-tagged 2D pictures/movies. He has previously stunned the crowd with Seadragon and Photosynth technologies, which have been since then acquired by Microsoft.
In this presentation, Blaise is showcasing the technology to be experienced on Bing Maps. I’ve been too used to using Google Maps which might change when amazing projects like this become widely available. For now this won’t happen, however, since Street view is not supported in Firefox (and I won’t even start thinking that Chrome might work). ;-)
All I can say is: Praise to Blaise and his team!
This is probably the most exciting to leave the gates of Microsoft (pun intended) next to Project Natal presented by that guy wearing sunglasses indoors.
I guess Google should start cracking their brainpower and company acquisition resources…
Tue
Jun
2
levelHead
Wow, what a mindblowing use of augmented reality!
levelHead is an augmented reality spatial memory game (wicked title, isn’t it?).
What is levelHead?
Here’s the explanation what levelHead is from the web site:
levelHead uses a hand-held solid-plastic cube as its only interface. On-screen it appears each face of the cube contains a little room, each of which are logically connected by doors.
In one of these rooms is a character. By tilting the cube the player directs this character from room to room in an effort to find the exit.
Some doors lead nowhere and will send the character back to the room they started in, a trick designed to challenge the player’s spatial memory. Which doors belong to which rooms?
There are three cubes (levels) in total, each of which are connected by a single door. Players have the goal of moving the character from room to room, cube to cube in an attempt to find the final exit door of all three cubes. If this door is found the character will appear to leave the cube, walk across the table surface and vanish.. The game then begins again.
About this video
As yet unseen footage of the first stable version of levelHead, an augmented-reality spatial-memory game by Julian Oliver. Warning! This is a spoiler for the first 3 cubes: the easy Red Cube, the tricky Green Cube and the ridiculously difficult Orange Cube
levelHead has been designed and created by Julian Oliver who seems to be working with his SelectParks team on several interesting projects connecting art and technology in really creative ways.
C++ source code has been released under GPL license and is available online for everyone who wants to play this game and is brave enough to build it.
[via Vlado Hadzinski]
Tue
Jan
27
Foldable Displays tracked with the Wiimote from the Wiimote Master himself, Johnny Chung Lee.
[via jcl5m]
