Monday, April 11, 2011
Virtual Choir 2.0 "Sleep": 2052 People, 58 Countries, Conducted by Eric Whitacre:
Eric Whitacre's TED Talk: A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong
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
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Search for Researchers: Ubiquitous computing, large screen displays, touch screen displays & tables, and mobile devices
I am in the process of compiling list of links to researchers who are interested in off-the-desktop systems and applications that can seamlessly inter-operate with mobile and remote devices and systems, especially systems that include large-screen displays and touch-enabled tables or surfaces.
A variety of fields are involved in this area - interactive design, computer-supported collaborative work, embedded system design, industrial systems engineering, virtual reality, human factors, educational technology, mobile learning, computer & video game development, mobile computing, audio-visual media, new media, mobile marketing, GIS & geography/ geology, graphic design, computer music, interactive storytelling, etc. etc.
Here is a start:
Stacey D. Scott, Ph.D
Collaboration Technologies Researcher
University of Waterloo
Dr. Scott is the Program Co-Chair for Tabletop 2007 (IEEE Int'l) Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems, held on October 10-12, 2007 in Newport, R.I., in conjunction with UIST 2007 (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology)
The program for both conferences has a list of presenters and their topics, but no links.
Here are a few more links:
Desney Tan
Bill Buxton
Jeffery Han
Harry "Gravano" van der Veen
On the Tabletop(Stefano Baraldi)
