February 2012
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January 2012
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WatchAugmented reality manikin makes designing clothes easy.
The 3D tracked manikin and controllers enable the user to cut and shape the design on the manikin whilst previewing it on a screen. I was going to suggest that projecting the result in real-time on the manikin would be good but realised that it would only be useful for fabric on the surface!
The work has been done byAmi Wibowo and three...
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December 2011
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Is the board and card game industry at a tipping...
A very readable and most interesting 3-part blog series by Rob Bartel (designer and producer of video games with Electronic Arts’ BioWare) about how the history of board & card games is intertwined with that of video games and what that may mean for the future of the board game industry. He recently branched out into board game design with Two by Two and promotional card games for the...
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November 2011
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WatchSpeckleSense is a fast (1000 fps), precise (50 μm), low-cost (cheap components and no lenses) and compact motion sensor that exploits ‘Laser Speckle’.
Ever looked at a laser dot and seen a speckle pattern that seems to shift about as you move your head? That’s Laser Speckle. Researchers from Camera Culture Lab have exploited this by re-purposing the tracking sensor from an...
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Visualised data-mining
Researchers for Information Is Beautiful has compiled an infographic for a Wired article that supports the stereotype that Tory governments are made up of public-school boys, whereas Labour governments are made up of grammar-school boys.
Information Is Beautiful really like visualising data and are currently running a contest with a new dataset. It would interesting to see some of these...
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Out Run. Out of the box
The Sega 80’s classic Out Run has had two cross-media implementations recently.
Out Run Analogic
Out Run Analogic is a tabletop analogue version based on the Arduino processor. Packing about as much processing power as the original implementation, you control a physical model over a rolling landscape. It is very similar to the wonderful Mobility Masterclass by Tim Hunkin at the Under The...
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Bioinspired self-repairing slippery surfaces with... →
SLIPS (Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surface) is a super-slippy surface that wins the Quite Nicely Contrived Acronym Award. Bio-inspired from carnivorous pitcher plants the surface will be useful in fluid handling and transportation, optical sensing, medicine, and as self-cleaning and anti-fouling materials operating in extreme environments. And getting the last bit of ketchup out from the...
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How will people play augmented board or card... →
Thought-provoking article by Blair MacIntyre on the different mentality people have when approaching board games versus computer games, and what the implications are when these to giants start to cross over in the space of augmented reality board games. This is an area of particular interested to me and my work at Optricks where we created a very successful on-line game based on trumps-style card...
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October 2011
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“Women who are on the pill when they pick a mate end up with longer-lasting...”
– From New Scientist article Pill helps women pick faithful mates, not sexy ones, quoting research by Dr Craig Roberts, Senior Lecturer in Evolution & Behaviour, social Psychology and Psychology at the University of Stirling.
As stated at the end of the summary in the paper, the use of oral...
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iPhone App Sales, Exposed | TechCrunch →
From article on 2010 iPhone development stats:
“Survey of sales data from 124 app developers with market applications ranging in price from 99 cents to $79.99”
“The average total number of units sold was 101,024 copies within an average period of 261 days. The average number of units sold per day was 387.”
“Average total development cost amounting to...
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Dart : Structured web programming →
Google launches Dart, an open source web development language aimed to overcome Javascript’s failings. The code will run natively in a VM or cross-compile to Javascript.
Specifically, their design goals are:
Create a structured yet flexible programming language for the web.
Make Dart feel familiar and natural to programmers and thus easy to learn.
Ensure that all Dart language...
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September 2011
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WatchFantastic video from Greg Tran, a recent graduate from Harvard Graduate School of Design. This is his thesis concept on augmented architecture, here is his presentation text entitled Mediating Mediums - The Digital 3D presentation
The way AR can change the way spaces operate is most interesting, although I suspect health and safety will have to get involved as soon as people start walking into...
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August 2011
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July 2011
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Apple Patents Augmented Reality Displays →
Surely January 6, 2010, is rather late in the day to be trying to patent a transparent screen with overlaid AR graphics? There must be loads of prior art.
Interestingly, Apple have agreed to pay Nokia €8 per iPhone (equating to 4.8% revenue, totalling €700m up to June 2011) for touchscreen patent infringement; technology that Steve Jobs had said they had protected when the iPhone was first...
June 2011
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“it would take more than five years just to watch the amount of video that will...”
– More interesting predictions for 2015 in the Cisco Systems annual Visual Networking Index (VNI) report (pdf):
By 2012 Internet video will account for over 50 percent of consumer Internet traffic
Traffic from wireless devices will exceed traffic from wired devices by 2015
The number of devices...
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