Category Archives: Virtual Reality

Transforming how we experience imaging

Blaise Aguera y Arcas is an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, architect of Seadragon and the co-creator of Photosynth, a monumental piece of software capable of assembling static photos into a synergy of zoomable, navigatable spaces.  Check out how this technology will change our approach to imaging. Tags: Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Seadragon, Photosynth, design, TED, [...]

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Whats new is now old

Microsoft’s Photosynth was a hit at TED last year and looked to be really promising regardless of running only on XP SP2 and Vista (shame on you Microsoft) but the same team along with the University of Washington has moved forward with new photo, video and VR technologies: This should be a very interesting mashup of [...]

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Milwaukee has Google street views!

Milwaukee has just been added by Google to their cool interactive Street View component of Google Maps? What a cool technology for the city and organizations to exploit in Google’s popular mapping service. So feel free to email anyone and send a link permitting visitors to interactively tour Milwaukee via Google’s panoramic street view component. No [...]

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Tech futures in higher education

Today’s Live Discussion at the Chronicle of Higher Education points to the growth of new technologies that will change the college campus. Gartner’s “Hype Cycle for Higher Education” focused on technologies that will transform colleges in the next 10 years: global library digitization projects, personal devices with campus network access, Internet2, e-learning repositories, quantum [...]

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My latest read – The Tipping Point

A long and exciting summer with Maxwell has taken me away from my daily reading. But I have just finished Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference and learned its just as great as reviews have suggested. Chapter 3 (The Stickiness Factor: Sesame Street, Blue’s Clues and the Educational [...]

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Copywrong

The real golden rule: He who has the gold makes the rules. I’m always disappointed to see how copyright handcuffs what an artist can create. For example: This message is from RealViz’s Stitcher program, a photographic virtual reality rendering program. “Due to legal issues” you cannot look at an image if the camera focal [...]

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Internet2 – Performing Arts

Fall 2006 Internet2 Member Meeting Performing Arts Advisory Group (Invitation Only) December 06, 2006, 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM Location: CC23 A A lot of big news in this session. The one that will capture the imagination of many — the London Symphony Orchestra is now connecting to Ukrena, Europe’s Internet2 and available for new educational and performance [...]

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Internet2 – OSTN Film Festival

Fall 2006 Internet2 Member Meeting Internet2 OSTN Film Festival December 06, 2006, 7:30 AM – 8:45 AM Location: CC21 C The Open Student Television Network OSTN is now an Internet2 affiliate just this week. This was a great session..and a standing room audience. This will be a great opportunity for students (as access to tools continues to climb yet pricing continues [...]

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Internet2 – 2nd Life session

Fall 2006 Internet2 Member Meeting (Live netcast and video on demand information) Teaching & Learning in Massively Multiplayer Virtual Worlds: Second Life Adventures in Learning December 05, 2006, 8:45 AM – 10:00 AM Location: CC11 B David Antonacci, University of Kansas Medical Center Marcus Childress, Emporia State University Jean Gardner, Topeka Shawnee County Public Library Randy Stout, Kansas Board of [...]

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My latest read – Assembling Panoramic Photos

Its been great getting this book to serve as a bit of inspiration:

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