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“A sketch of how we may some day be able to shop with the help of spatial computing. Spatial computing is the experience of digital 3d objects inhabiting real 3d space in a way that is interactive and intuitive.”
SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 – just finished! The world’s leading experts on computer graphics and interactive techniques. An international festival of art and animation and tomorrow’s technologies… Next year I want to go. 
Check some videos here…
Seac02 is a new platform for building VR and AR solutions, for mobiles, web, events etc. Read more at this blog. In the marketing of Seac02, I read words like: “Less technical”, “all-in-one”, “painless”… which is words that usually makes me a bit sceptical… Anyways - it looks really nice and I will for sure try it out! It might turn out to be awesome! (yepp. arent sceptical people a bit boring ?)
This weekend I watched “Minory Report” to see how the movie producers thought of new technology back in 2002. The movie is full of multi-touch, gestural input interaction, holograms etc. Technologies that today, seven years later, slowly is becoming a reality. Interesting to see: whatever we imagine, becomes reality.
Chief scientist for Oblong Industries, John Underkoffler, was one of the movie’s science and technology advisors to the film and based the design of those scenes directly on his earlier work at MIT. The G-Speak platform is already in use in a variety of Fortune 50 companies, government agencies and universities – Oblong Industries offer a SDK that runs on both Linux and Mac OS X. This blogpost inspired by: Accidental Thinking.
‘SixthSense‘ is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. This is a technology that creates the WOW effect in me. WOW!! The current prototype system costs approximate $350 to build
Einstein said: “To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.” Nothing could be more true after watching this video. Source: twitter feed of Ronnestam.
Obscura Digital, has a developed VisionAire (great name by the way!) that lets user interact with visual data in the air! You never touch anything you just interact in the air. It looks amazing and would be really nice on stage at for ex. product launches… Check out their other AirTouch as well at their blog – and how they helped GM communicate their environmental message with similar technology.
Will it soon be possible to use 3D glasses connected to the iPhone? Apple has already patented iGlasses – a system using “a micro-electro-mechanical (MEM)/Laser display architecture.” By using a MEM laser display, Apple hopes to avoid problems with existing head-mounted displays, namely the sensation of looking into a box and motion sickness that may be caused by limiting peripheral vision. Well, from “touch and sweep” your finger interaction to iGlasses. I want to try it out now please…
Disney’s Pixar studio plans to release all of its movies in 3-D format, starting in 2009! Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter said he has been inspired by three-dimensional photography for decades. “I love 3D. I made a 3D computer-animated short in 1989 called ‘Nickname,’ and in fact my wedding pictures with my beautiful wife Nancy were made in 3D,” he said.
As we all know passion creates success! Now a new booming business is conversion of movie screens all of the world… As a start 10,000 screens in the U.S. and Canada will accommodate 3-D movies. The conversion will cost as much as $700 million and take three years… And Samsung has releasesd a 3D TV – and I am just waiting for my next consol supporting this 3D format! That wont be a little “Wii” - that will be a big ”WaoW”!!