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rubbishcorp® — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:41:42 +0000

HTML5 Thing.

Obvious Engine | AR

rubbishcorp® — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:27:35 +0000

A lot of people (understandably) struggle with AR and see it as a novelty/pointless item. Currently if you want to use it you have to pull out a device, open the browser, select the appropriate layer, point your camera at stuff and read info from a fairly tiny screen (while still pointing). Admittedly, that’s quite a lot of effort compared to a lot of other stuff that does the same job. While I see their point, I think a lot of that thinking is based on the current value of mobile phone based marketing using AR. Not the value of a technology that enables you to add data to your view of the world. It’s hard to argue that being able to access contextual data that is visualized around you would not be of value – it’s just that the current tech means AR can’t always cut the mustard. But if you think about the technology applied to contact lenses or glasses with voice activation, all of that bad UX goes away making Augmented Reality very valuable indeed – for both utility and entertainment.

Obvious Engine is a vision-based augmented reality engine for indie games companies, digital artists, developers and brands. The engine can track the natural features of an image, which means you no longer have to use traditional markers and glyphs. The engine now works with 3D objects and curved surfaces and there’s no need to modify existing forms.

Impressive.

Windows Phone & Kinect | Holographic Game Engine

rubbishcorp® — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:18:24 +0000

Game engine utilizing a pseudo-holographic effect by enabling Kinect to “see” the position of the viewer so a 3D engine can adjust an image to give the illusion of a real 3D object. A simple WP7 app controls the application and the helicopter using the accelerometer.

Interesting.

Wrangler

rubbishcorp® — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:34:46 +0000

Lovely interaction from Stink for Wrangler.

ViaAK

Here.

Technicolor | Personal Content Rendering

rubbishcorp® — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:19:13 +0000

Personalized Content Rendering means the movement of a mouse or a simple hand gesture enables an individual viewer to control a live broadcast view in real-time. This means each viewer can pan and zoom the camera/s manually as you can see in this nice video:

Pretty interesting, aside from the name and the bloke presenting it who seems to be the love child of Mr Burns and a Coypu.

More here.

Samsung Smart Window

rubbishcorp® — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:56:42 +0000

Transparent screen that fits any window up to 46 inches with a resolution of 1366 x 768. It’s see-through but can display stuff like a regular screen with what you’re looking at invisible those outside. On top of all that it’s touch controlled.

And yes, the presenter is, like, totally, like, annoying.

**LIKE**

Board of Awesomeness

rubbishcorp® — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:49:51 +0000

Introducing Chaotic Moon Labs’ Board of Awesomeness — a longboard powered by movement. Using a motorized longboard custom rigged with a Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect device, Samsung Windows 8 enabled tablet with full voice control, a phidget interface module and all terrain tires.

More here.

theexpressiveweb.com

rubbishcorp® — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:31:58 +0000

A project put together by Big Spaceship and Adobe to showcase some of the most creative and expressive features being added to the web today. In addition to highlighting and providing information on twelve new HTML5 and CSS3 features, the site itself makes extensive use of new features such as CSS3 transitions, CSS3 transforms, web storage and more to provide a visually compelling resource for learning more about HTML5 and CSS3.

Here.

Controlled Quantum Levitation Wipeout

rubbishcorp® — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:58:35 +0000

In quantum field theory, the Casimir effect and the Casimir–Polder force are physical forces arising from a quantized field. The typical example is of two uncharged metallic plates in a vacuum, like capacitors placed a few micrometers apart, without any external electromagnetic field. In a classical description, the lack of an external field also means that there is no field between the plates, and no force would be measured between them.

ViaGippo.

More science here.

Disco Breaker HTML5

rubbishcorp® — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:25:38 +0000

Microsoft Istanbul and Bedük (a famous Turkish pop star (in Turkey)) have teamed up to create the Disco Breaker experience showcasing IE9‘s HTML5 features.

The trailer is Turkish, but I think you’ll get the drift of how the experience will play out.

It certainly looks like a pretty sweet piece of HTML5 action, but I can’t actually tell because I’m not running IE9.

Oh well.

Created by 41-29.

Here.

Kinect Living Painting Demos

rubbishcorp® — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:58:45 +0000

An application that can paint still images, video, and video from Kinect with background subtraction. Multiple layers can be created to achieve complex visual results. Blending painted users with painted stills and video in real time. Sound reactive brushes are also available, size and movement being controlled by audio levels. The application uses Cinder an opensource C++ library, OpenGL, and some advanced programming to achieve over 100,000 brushes with multiple source layers in real time.

More here.

Mooo | The Museum of Obsolete Objects

rubbishcorp® — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:21:45 +0000

YouTube channel created by Jung von Matt with a seamless interface displaying a timeline of objects linking to clips.

Nicely.

Here.

House of the Rising Sun | Old Tech Remix

rubbishcorp® — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:24:49 +0000

I know these are pretty shit, but I do love them.

From the dude that brought us the AWESOME Bohemian Rhapsody comes a version of House Of The Rising Sun.

Yep.

Samsung Flexible AMOLED

rubbishcorp® — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:00:36 +0000

From the footure.

Vinylocipede

rubbishcorp® — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:46:42 +0000

Barley.

Here.

Sony Holodeck Type Thing

rubbishcorp® — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:22:17 +0000

Using a variety of visual tricks, including projection mapping, props, and motion-tracking, Sony have managed to bring to life a sort of crazy virtual “holodeck” experience. The series was produced on behalf of Sony Europe by Studio Output and Marshmallow Laser Feast to promote the PlayStation Store. All three clips were shot in real-time, with zero edits or post-production. Everything you see was an optical effect seen through the lens of the camera. Impressive work, if not a little tenuously linked to the Playstation Store…

Aside from these films as ads, and the overload of projection mapping we seen to still be experiencing, it’s pretty interesting to think about how this kinda tech might soon start to make its way into our homes for gaming and movie consumption.

Stamped

rubbishcorp® — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:28:32 +0000

‘Stamped is a new way to recommend only what you like best—restaurants, books, movies, music and more.No noise, no strangers, just the things you and your friends love.’

Nice.

Here.

AR On Vita

rubbishcorp® — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:48:58 +0000

Very interesting use of the tech for entertainment.

ViaCS.

Twine | Simple Connectivity

rubbishcorp® — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:46:04 +0000

‘Want to hook up things to the Web? Maybe you want to get a tweet when your laundry’s done, or get an email when the basement floods while you’re on vacation. Even if you’re good with electronics and programming, these are involved projects. Instead of worrying about wiring or networking code, you can focus on your idea.

Twine is the simplest possible way to get the objects in your life texting, tweeting or emailing. A durable 2.5″ square provides WiFi connectivity, internal and external sensors, and two AAA batteries that keep it running for months. A simple web app allows to you quickly set up your Twine with human-friendly rules — no programming needed. And if you’re more adventurous, you can connect your own sensors and use HTTP to have Twine send data to your own app.

Twine lets you create Internet-connected systems and objects anywhere you have WiFi. Compact, low-power hardware and real-time web software work together to make networked physical computing simple and versatile.’

Smart.

Hello Little Printer

rubbishcorp® — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:54:35 +0000

Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip from your friends. Use your smartphone to set up subscriptions and Little Printer will gather them together to create a timely, beautiful mini-newspaper.

Here.

Machine Photo Critic

rubbishcorp® — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:01:33 +0000

‘Xerox research labs have developed a computer program that tells you if your pictures are good or bad. In fact, it’s capable of detecting if the photo has that magical, intangible quality that makes an image special.’

Smarts.

Here.

SyperHydroPhobic

rubbishcorp® — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:19:27 +0000

NeverWet superhydrophobic spray-on coating.

Wow.

Guardian Tag Bot

rubbishcorp® — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:56:28 +0000

Tweet a query and the Tag Bot will reply with the best content it can find on guardian.co.uk.

Nicely.

Here.

Site here.

Battlefield 3 Simulator

rubbishcorp® — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:56:23 +0000

MicroSoft Holodesk

rubbishcorp® — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:54:22 +0000

HoloDesk is ann interactive system combining an optical see through display and Kinect camera to create the illusion of interaction with 3D graphics. A virtual image of a 3D scene is rendered through a half silvered mirror and spatially aligned with the real-world for the viewer.

ViaDvice.

New Look | Nap On The Bow

rubbishcorp® — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:46:39 +0000

Nice Kinect video,

More here.

Ping Pong Robots

rubbishcorp® — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:13:13 +0000

Robots that play Ping Pong have made their debut in China. The two robots as shown can capture the track of the ball by a camera installed inside before making reactions. The two robots have electronic arms, legs, eyes, ears and painted hair, just like our human counterparts. The robots can track Ping Pong balls by using eye-mounted cameras, predicting the movement of the balls and responding accordingly. The cameras capture 120 frames per second, transmitting the images to the robots’ processors and allowing them to respond appropriately after calculating the ball’s position, speed, angle, landing position and path. It really takes a complicated identification and positioning system to perform.

The designer at the university’s robot lab also aims to develop robots that can do housework.

Good.

Lego | Life Of George

rubbishcorp® — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:40:09 +0000

Interactive game combining real LEGO bricks with apps for your iPhone/iPod Touch.

Mike rating: 7/10

Thanks Harry.

KinectHacksCom

rubbishcorp® — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:44:27 +0000

KinectHacks is a community dedicated to becoming the number one source of news, code and info about the latest and most innovative Microsoft Kinect hacking action.

Here.

CSFanboy Sony HMD Tech Demo

rubbishcorp® — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:38:10 +0000

The Head Mounted Display from Sony is a personal entertainment system with 2 HD/3D OLED screens that pump out High Definition/3D images appearing as a huge big cinema sized screen before your eyes. The tech is not yet available in the shops but, thanks to the lovely Sony, we’ll have one rigged (in 3D) to a PS3 Wednesday night.

More here.