Windows Phone and Kinect to create HOLOGRAPHIC game engine

Posted on January 25, 2012 in Immersive, Mixed Reality by dulce303

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Another quick hack using the Kinect beta SDK and my new Windows Phone (which is great!). What you see is a simple game engine utilizing the pseudo-holographic effect from my other videos. A Kinect “sees” the position of the viewer and the 3D engine adjusts the image accordingly to give the illusion of a real…

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Judge: Fifth Amendment does not protect encrypted hard drives

Posted on January 24, 2012 in Networks by dulce303

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A federal judge has ruled that a Colorado woman can be compelled to decrypt her encrypted laptop so that the police can inspect it for incriminating evidence. The woman, Ramona Fricosu, is a defendant in a mortgage scam case. She had argued that the Fifth amendment’s privilege against self-incrimination protected her from having to disclose…

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Researchers turn your smartphone into a virtual projector

Posted on January 22, 2012 in Immersive, Mixed Reality by Michael Gorman

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Pico projectors are an easy way to increase the screen real estate of your mobile phone, but what if you’d rather not carry one around in your pocket or bulk up your phone’s slim profile with a slip on solution? Well, a team of intrepid researchers ma…

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GM Advanced Tech Window

Posted on January 21, 2012 in Mixed Reality by dulce303

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Got backseat boredom? DVD players and Game Boys are so five years ago, but a new concept in rear seat entertainment technology that uses the windows themselves could replace squirminess and snoozing with interactive scribbling, sweeping and pinching. General Motors Research and Development put that challenge before researchers and students from the FUTURE LAB at…

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Megaupload Team Detained in NZ

Posted on January 21, 2012 in Culture, Networks by dulce303

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand police raided several homes and businesses linked to the founder of Megaupload.com, a giant Internet file-sharing site shut down by U.S. authorities, on Friday and seized guns, millions of dollars, and nearly $5 million in luxury cars, officials said… Read More. Megaupload Team Detained in NZ.

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The Network

Posted on January 21, 2012 in Networks by dulce303

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Network from Michael Rigley on Vimeo. Information technology has become a ubiquitous presence. By visualizing the processes that underlie our interactions with this technology we can trace what happens to the information we feed into the network. BFA Thesis CCA Graphic Design

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Immersiva

Posted on January 19, 2012 in Arts, Grids, Mixed Reality by dulce303

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Immersiva is one of the most icon simulators in any metaverse, Bryn Oh‘s, (Immersiva’s creator), artistic soul flows, breathes, and evolves on a checker board grid that immerses you in lucid dreams and stories. Bryn’s free expression has had a profound effect on the residents of Second Life, and Immersiva is a grid favorite, it’s…

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Facebook to Introduce New Open Graph Apps, Gestures Wednesday [REPORT]

Posted on January 17, 2012 in Grids by dulce303

Facebook will introduce apps based on its new Open Graph and Gestures platforms at an event Wednesday in San Francisco, according to a report. The apps will let users “frictionlessly” share based on actions other than “like,” “read” or “watch,” according to AllThingsD, which cites “sources” in the report. Read More… Facebook to Introduce New…

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TI Forges Ahead In Augmented Reality On Its OMAP Platform

Posted on January 15, 2012 in Mixed Reality by dulce303

Reiterating its commitment to fuel best-in-class user experiences, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) today underscored strategic relationships with metaio and Total Immersion, aimed at bringing augmented reality (AR) capabilities to life on TI’s market-leading OMAP processors. Both companies are providing AR software development kits (SDK), optimized to work on TI’s OMAP processors, which now makes it…

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