In the fall of 2011 Rockstar GamesW will release the LA NoireW. In this game you are a detective who has to solve a murder mystery. By interrogating people you have to find out if they are telling the truth or that they are lying. By using lots of camera’s in specialized room they are now able to capture the emotional expressions of the actors/characters unlike we have seen before. In the video below they go more indepth how this technique works. Awesome stuff!
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In this really interesting TEDxW talk from Seth Priebatsch, the Chief Ninja @ SCVNGR (a game-layer on top of the “real” world). In his talk he explaines how these real-life game mechanics work. Interesting stuff. He states that this decade was the decade of social and the coming decade the decade of games. Enemy RC-XD spotted!
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“How to play” SCVNGR video after the break.
IntelW‘s Research Lab has come up with a awesome idea to incorporate in toys. By using a KinectW like camera they can see shapes and give them contextual interaction with their environment.
This experiment gives a glimpse into the future which is really interesting. Are we going to shape all our experiences with rich interactive programmed content or is this a logical step in evolution? Anyhoe good busy Intel, it makes me think.
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Really kewl video from Berg and DentsuW, how (interactive) media can be incorporated in a creative and fun way!
Media surfaces: Incidental Media from Dentsu London on Vimeo.
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Three concepts of the future of digital books. I really like the Alice concept.
The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.
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If you got an iPadW you must, I repeat MUST, download Flipboard. This is a social (and I mean social) magazine which aggregates content your friends share via TwitterW and FacebookW, but also from sites like BoingBoingW and The OnionW in an extremely nice design. I think the concept and execution it is quite brilliant. A very high “Why didn’t I think of this?”
Influential pioneer who defined the alternate reality entertainment genre worldwide. Sean Stewart is an award-winning science fiction novelist, a groundbreaking figure in transmedia storytelling, and the most experienced and influential writer of Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) in the world. A graduate of the University of Alberta in Edmonton and currently based in California, Sean has founded four genre defining companies including 42 Entertainment and Fourth Wall Studios, behind ARG campaigns including The Beast, I Love Bees, Year Zero, and Vanishing Point (Microsoft). In publishing, he has continued to push the envelope of the traditional novel with the transmedia Cathys Book, a New York Times and international bestseller currently published in twenty countries and a dozen languages around the world. For more information about this TEDxTalk or TEDxEdmonton, visit http://www.tedxedmonton.com.
“Pixel – A pixel art documentary” is a documentary by Simon Cottee, about the power of the pixel in modern day culture, music and art.
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Interactive advertisement for Amnesty International by Jung von Matt. Amnesty International’s one-off domestic violence awareness poster includes an eye-tracking camera that changes the poster’s display when a viewer looks at the image.
Whenever a person in front of the poster looks in its general direction they see a normal looking couple pretending to look happy.
It’s only when the person looks away that the poster changes to a much more alarming scene.
