Updates from March, 2010

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  Augmented Anamorphis

  Nautic3l 12:47 on 19/03/2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

  Sander ter Braak, graduation student at HKU/KMT, Digital Media Design (Jeuhhh DMD-Terror Corps!!!), made this prototype of a 3D ground projection that keeps the right perpective when you walk around it. To see, is to believe!

  In his own words:

  For my research on augmented reality, I created this test to project a 3d object in the environment. The user will always see the model from the right perspective, using anamorphisis. Soon more info. The project explores projection of a 3d object in space dependant on viewer’s location. In the movie embeded below the first scene shows a simulation, the second a user view, the third from a different angle showing the anamorphosis.

  Inspiring stuff with a high drool factor! Can’t wait for the finished project.

  Augmented anamorphosis from Sander ter Braak on Vimeo.

  Via Sander ter Braak

   

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  First interactive horror movie

  Nautic3l 12:30 on 19/03/2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

  Watch and scream!

  Via Falibur

   
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  IQ Engines, another visual search API

  Nautic3l 05:38 on 06/03/2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

  Yesterday we talked about Kooaba, with their visual search app and API . Today here is Omoby, a visual search app from IQ Engines with also an API :). Developers open your notepads!

  Via Mashable

   
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  Image recognition API by Kooaba

  Nautic3l 17:41 on 04/03/2010 | 2 Permalink | Reply
  

  Kooaba, a Swiss image recognition start-up, yesterday announced their API^W. The concept is simple, you take a picture of an item (CD, book, filmposter, etc.) and Kooaba finds you al the information known about that item. With them now opening it up with an API with a database that has 10 million images. I see dead people, …ehm possibilities :).

  Via TechCrunch

   
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  Interactive eBooks meet iPad

  Nautic3l 16:01 on 04/03/2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

  Penguin Books^W gives, in the video below, an insight in their upcoming interactive eBooks^W they are developing for the iPad^W. Inspiring stuff.

  Via 9to5mac

   
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  Minority Report one step closer

  Nautic3l 17:15 on 17/02/2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

  It is called g-speak spatial operating environment and developed by Oblong. One of the founders was a science advisor on Minority Report^W. Drool is go!

  g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.

  oblong’s tamper system 1801011309 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.

  Via 9t05mac

   
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  WebGL? Anyone?

  Arri 22:27 on 13/02/2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 3D, OpenGLES, WebGL

  i’m asking myself where i’ve been, because before last week i had never heard of it.
  going through the WebKit sources, i noticed several filenames containing OpenGL-terminology.
  names like DOMWebGLTexture.h, JSWebGLShader.cpp, JSWebGLRenderingContext.h etc..

  some googling brought me to the khronos site, where a draft specification can be found.

  WebGL - OpenGL ES 2.0 for the Web. WebGL is a royalty-free, cross-platform API that brings OpenGL ES 2.0 to the web as a 3D drawing context within HTML, exposed as low-level Document Object Model interfaces. It uses the OpenGL shading language, GLSL ES, and can be cleanly combined with other web content that is layered on top or underneath the 3D content. It is ideally suited for dynamic 3D web applications in the JavaScript programming language, and will be fully integrated in leading web browsers.

  It’s already (partly) functional in WebKit (Safari,Chrome) and Mozilla nightly builds.
  Checkout this screen recording. (failed to embed the video??)
  OpenGL and shaders with javascript •_+ yeah

  Update:
  looking at the specification i realise that the first draft was only published last December, so i’m not really the moron i thought..
  it’s also interesting to note that the editor is “Chris Marrin (Apple Inc.)”.

   
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  Flattr, a social way to pay online

  Nautic3l 12:21 on 11/02/2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

  Flattr is an interesting social micro-payment system from Peter Sunde^W, one of them scurvy dogs of The Pirate Bay^W.

  Via BoingBoing

   
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  Google goes social with Google Buzz

  Nautic3l 20:22 on 09/02/2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

  Google today launched another product, called Google Buzz. This social layer within Gmail gives you the possibility to share status updates, photos and videos with your contacts or a private group. It can also aggregate feeds from services like Flickr^W and Twitter^W and filters them for you on relevance. I’m missing probably a lot more what you can do with Buzz. The only thing that’s on my mind is, that this data hunger from Google is getting out of control…

  Google Buzz

  Google Buzz Mobile

  Via TechCrunch

   
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  The social role of Ning: An Interview with Ning CEO Gina Bianchini

  Nautic3l 23:12 on 04/02/2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

  TechCrunch^W interviewed Ning^W CEO Gina Bianchini^W about the service and the current state & future of online social interaction/experiences.

  Via TechCrunch