Sunday, October 13, 2013
LINKFEST: Interactive Multimedia Technology, May through October 2013
Here are links to my Interactive Multimedia Technology posts from May 5th to October 13, 2013:
Leap Motion Update: Slow-going progress for me, at least for now!
Jay Leno's Interactive Pumpcast News: Will and Monifa Sims' 15 minutes of Karaoke Fame
Astronaut Chris Hadfield's Awesome Music Video from Space - in case you missed it!
Xbox One and Kinect 2 for the Playground of the Future
Summer of Fun and Game Development with Unity
Leap Motion and Google Earth Experiment: Cute Doggie Photo-globe Mashup
Interactive Displays and "Billboards" in Public Spaces; Pervasive Displays 2013
Stanford's "Coding Together: Developing Apps for iPhone and iPad" Cours Video Presentations on iTunesU
Drawing with Sounds, and Interactive Musical Drawing App Created with Processing
Monkeying Around with Autism Assessments: Kinect-based game by Vectorform and Kaiser Permanente therapists offers a barrel of possibilities!
The Life and Contributions of Seymour Papert: Inspiring video of a tribute panel, Interaction Design and Children Conference
Tablets at Work: AT&T video clips, other examples, in case you were wondering
Kinect Interaction to support people with disabilities: DoubleFine's Happy Action Theater/Kinect Party; OAK Air Switch and Face Switch, resources
Let's Get Visual: Visual Communication with Smartphones, Getty's Open Content, Art Everywhere and Visual Perception Research
Allison Druin and the HCIL Team Win Emmy for Nick App: Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media - User Experience and Visual Design
Eye Tribe Eye Tracker Dev Kit, $99; Open Source ITU Gaze Tracker Grows Up!
Narcolepsy Awareness Infographic, FDA's Public Meeting
Librarians as Data Scientists: Data Science for All
ACO VIRTUAL: Interactive virtual chamber orchestra, with 3D musicians
Learning to Teach through Mixed Reality: UCF's TeachLivE
VISUAL LEARNING: Emotion-Expression-Explanation Call for Papers
LUMO, by PO-Motion: Projection system for children that transforms kid's designs into interactive creations (Kickstarter)
Multitouch and Gesture Update: NUITEQ's Snowflake ABC Suite of Entertaining Educational Apps
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Technology in the Sunday Paper, Tourists on Segways in Charlotte, NC.
"But the first sales figures on 3-D TVs and a newly released consumer survey indicate that the industry has a long way to go before the new technology catches on in a big way, if it ever does...In the sets' first three months on the market, beginning in February, consumers nationwide spent about $55 million on new 3-D-capable TVs and related equipment, according to an NPD Group survey of some of the largest retailers carrying the products, including Best Buy and Amazon.com." -3-D TV sets are selling, but no instant craze
Kristena Hanson, L.A. Times, 7/4/10, in the Charlotte Observer
In the wad of ads that came with my Sunday paper, I noticed a huge glossy spread by Sony, highlighting the company's 3D system and other newer technologies:
An ad from Wolf Camera and Image featured a Nikon COOLPIX S1000PJ, with a built-in mini-projector:
Back to the Sony spread, I noticed the Sony Dash Personal Internet Viewer:
"Hello, I'm Dash"
"As the Dash™ Personal Internet Viewer, I use over 1,000 free apps and your Wi-Fi®connection to deliver the information and entertainment you crave—right to your bedroom, kitchen or office. Now you can access always-fresh web content with the touch of a finger, without being tethered to your PC."
Why not just get a kickstand for your iPad, slate, or smartphone?
I also noticed the ad for the Sony Reader Touch Edition:
Technology in my world:
Later in the day, I was driving down Central Avenue in Charlotte's Plaza-Midwood neighborhood. Stopped at a light, I snapped a picture of some tourists on Segways:
Technology, as it is embraced in Charlotte, North Carolina!
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Direct HD 3D TV website
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
WSJ's Interactive Graphics: China's Housing Markets, via Innovative Interactivity
Dissecting China's Housing Market - Multimedia - WSJ.Com
"How does China's housing market work? Who are the main players? And why have housing prices gone up so much? Watch an animation explaining all this and more."
The Wall Street Journal has dedicated a great interactive webspace that focuses on the country's housing market. Interactive content includes a timeline that shows the correlation between government policies and housing prices, videos that provide an overview of the situation and how the dream of home ownership is shared among many who live in China. The info-graphics are well-done.
For further information and analysis about the WSJ piece, see Tracy Boyer's recent post on the Innovative Interactivity blog:
Wall Street Journal utilizes motion graphics to illustrate China's housing market.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Post Wimp Links
Sunday, December 20, 2009
CityScape 1.8: What would it be like on an interactive touch/gesture screen or table?
Video, links, and pictures can be found on the following Interactive Multimedia Technology blogpost:
CityScape 1.8: What would it be like on an interactive touch/gesture screen or table?
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Interface Info, Links, and News
Here are several of my posts from the Interactive Multimedia Technology blog that I thought might be of interest to readers of this blog.
Interactive Video Art in Action: MuchoWall from Tangible Display and Jimmy Hertz
Elastic Creative, Delphi Productions, GestureTek & the Metronic HRS multi-touch table and wall
Smart Media Kitchen by SieMatic: Networked appliances, media, and the Internet right at your fingertips.
Multi-media Art in My Community: Cristi Ryba's Video Art, Sonja Hinrichson's Mapping Charlotte Project at Community Day, McColl Center for the Visual Arts
The Vodafone Symphonia- A symphony of Phones, Via Henry Jenkins
TECH NEWS: HP TouchSmart DevZone; HP Interactive Solutions ISV Partner Program; Information from NextWindow
Stantum's Multi-touch Slate PC, Windows 7 Certified
Multi-touch & Gesture Interaction News: NUITEQ's Snowflake Suite compatible with Windows 7, 3M Touch Systems, N-trig, and Lumio
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Information Visualization in a 2.0 World & VisWeek 2009
Here is the link to the post:
VisWeek 2009: Information Visualization in a 2.0 World
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Light Blue Optics: Interactive Microprojectors in your Day-to-Day Life
Light Blue Optics(LBO)is a privately-owned company in Cambridge, UK, with a facility in Colorado Springs, USA. LBO offeres a holographic laser projection technology that maintains high-resolution images from a pico projector. This technology looks quite useful, as it has a variety of applications that could easily support our day-to-day activities.
Here are a few pictures of the technology in action from the LBO website:
Automotive
The above picture shows how LBO's system can project pictures onto curved and angled surfaces, ideal for use in retail settings.
The mini-projector system can be used for collaborative interaction with multimedia content:
From the LBO Website: How It Works
"LBO's novel approach to miniature projection has a range of differentiating features and benefits. The term "holographic" referes not to the projected image, but to the method of projection. A diffraction pattern of the desired 2D image, calculated using LBO's patented holographic algorithms, is displayed on a custom-designed phase-modulating Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) microdisplay. When illuminated by coherent laser light, the desired 2D image is projected."
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Touching the void -(Memex 1.1, John Naughton, 9/16/09)
Head-up Displays go Holographic -(MIT Technology Review, Duncan Graham-Rowe, 10/15/09)
Interactive microprojectors -(The Economist, 6/9/09)
SID Vehicles and Photons 2009: 16th Annual Symposium on Vehicle Displays
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Urban Screens, Urban Scenes, Media Facades: Obscura Digital's Outdoor iGoogle Artist Themes Launch in NYCU
The event took place over a year ago, but I thought it was worth re-visiting, given the theme of this blog. For more pictures, visit the photo gallery of the event on the BizBash New York website.
"Google wanted to make a big impression for the debut of its iGoogle Artist Themes. Obscura Digital delivered by transforming New York City’s MeatPacking district into a massive outdoor art gallery for three nights. Using sixteen projectors perched atop three rooftops at the intersection of Little West 12th, 9th Avenue, and Gansevoort, we projected the artist themes onto the exteriors of ten buildings in a synchronized, animated display complete with audio. Many of the 70 participating artists—including architect Michael Graves, artist Jeff Koons, designer Marc Ecko, and photographer Anne Geddes—came out to see their work writ large. In spite of the rainy night, the brightness of 30,000-lumen projectors was hard to miss and people on the street stopped to take in the spectacle"
Saturday, September 5, 2009
The World is My Web Browser: Interactive Technology in Public Spaces
Off-the desktop Interactive technologies are spreading quickly, across many platforms. It seems that within the next 3-5 years we will be able to have instant access to a social and dynamic web, with information and entertainment at our fingertips, anywhere we go.
The "world-as-web-browser" concept is one I've touched upon in the past. I'd like to focus on this topic in future posts.
I came across some of the information in this post on the Future of Media Blog,maintained by the folks at the Interpublic Emerging Media Lab, based in California. This blog is a must-read!
The Saatchi & Saatchi ad agency in the UK created interactive games that provide people waiting in bus shelters the opportunity to pass the time by bashing digital falling eggs.
A more utilitarian approach to interactive touch screens is the EyeStop bus stop, a concept created by researchers MIT's SENSEable City Lab, along with the city of Florence and the city's transit service:
MIT
MIT researchers unveil the EyeStop: "Bus stop of the future" can sense its surroundings (pdf)
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IPG Future of Media Blog
(Cross-posted on the Interactive Multimedia Technology blog.)
