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GPS systems have gotten a lot better over the years, with bigger screens and live traffic updates, but they’re still fundamentally flawed because you need to take your eyes off of the road directly ahead, even if you stick it onto the center of your windshield. Pioneer wants to fix this with its new Cyber Navi GPS system.
This new GPS system comes equipped with an augmented reality heads-up-display (HUD) that attaches directly to your sun visor.
Read the complete article at PCWorld.
ARGUABLY the finest animated feature ever made, Beauty and the Beast returns to the big screen 20 years after its original release, all spruced up and shiny in a 3D version that will delight everyone, no matter how many times you have seen it before.
And this is a film that deserves to be seen on the big screen.
By far the best musical animation Disney has ever made — I’m already humming the theme song in my head, just thinking about it — it is a rare offering that has a strong story and moral tale at its heart, as well as an abundance of lovable, and not so lovable characters.
More violent than most cartoons of its time, with superb animation scenes and stand alone moments that have gone down in cinematic history — Be Our Guest — this re-release benefits from the addition of 3D technology but didn’t necessarily need it to draw audiences back to its magic.
It’s pure delight from start to finish and, although I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you the plot, just in case you are one of those rare breed that have no idea what I am talking about, let me fill you in:
Read the complete article at www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk
Eurosport will broadcast the 2012 French Open – Roland Garros Live, in 3D, via Sky in the UK market.
The Global sports channel will broadcast a Live 3D feed from Centre Court at Roland Garros from May 28th to June 10th and it will be available to UK sports fans, non exclusively, via Sky 3D TV.
It will be the third consecutive French Open tournament to be produced and available for fans in 3D.
Jean Thierry Augustin, Eurosport’s Managing Director of Rights Acquisition, Distribution & Development said: “Eurosport was the first broadcaster to present live tennis in 3D with the French Open in 2010 and this agreements with Sky will give the British public an opportunity to experience live Grand Slam tennis in 3D.
Read the complete article at Market Watch.
An effective and affordable technology for viewing TV in 3D without wearing special glasses will come to market this year, said Philadelphia-based Stream TV Networks, Inc., through its newly announced manufacturing partnership with Unihan (Pegatron) Corporation.
Stream TV’s process – dubbed Ultra-D – will initially be implemented in a 42- inch 3D display and companion Ultra-D Seecube converter box, which handles the switching and processing of incoming signals and can “auto-convert” conventional 2D TV shows to 3D.
Read the complete article at www.philly.com
Superstar Adam Lambert released his highly anticipated sophomore album Trespassing yesterday, and will be celebrating in Canada through HMV with a special app from Zappar. Beginning yesterday, select HMV stores around the country will feature interactive posters with Adam’s new album. The posters were created for the Zappar App, an interactive technology that allows consumers to connect with their favourite artists, right in the record store via augmented reality. This innovative application allows Adam fans to watch an exclusive video message from Adam Lambert himself right on their smartphones, take pictures with Adam and receive a special ‘Golden Ticket’ that they can present at the cash when they purchase the album to receive a special promotion. See a demo of the app in action, click here.
Once downloaded, Zappar starts working when the app is open and a smartphone camera is directed towards one of the Trespassing posters in the windows of HMV stores across Canada. The user then watches the poster come alive as a video message of Adam pops up.
“Working with Adam and Sony Music in Canada has been the perfect collaboration: delivering exclusive content with a one off promotion at retail with HMV to both engage and reward fans. It’s a great bit of bite size entertainment, which is what Zappar is all about,” said Caspar Thykier, Founder & Managing Director of Zappar.
Since the release of Adam Lambert’s debut album For Your Entertainment in 2009, it has sold nearly 2 million copies worldwide. Lambert was nominated for a Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for “Whataya Want From Me” in 2010 and also released the Glam Nation Live CD/DVD and Acoustic Live! EPs.
Self-described as magic, the Zappar App is a free downloadable app that can “open up another dimension where the world around you comes to life”. HMV and Zappar have teamed up to bring Adam Lambert to the public, and this is just the beginning of this next-generation app’s capabilities and interactive possibilities.
In addition to co-writing many of the tracks on Trespassing, Lambert collaborated with an all star list of award winning artists, producers and songwriters including Pharrell Williams, Dr. Luke, Bruno Mars, Claude Kelly, Benny Blanco, Bonnie McKee, Nile Rogers, and Sam Sparro.
To download the Zappar app, visit here.
Adam Lambert enters Zappar’s Augmented Reality
“Last week I attended and spoke at the Wednesday session of ARE2012, the SF Bay Area’s largest conference on augmented reality. This is the 3rd year of the conference and both the maturity of the industry and the cooling of the hype were evident. Attendance was lower than previous years, content was more focused on advertising & marketing examples, and there was a notable absence of platinum sponsors and top-tier enterprise attendees. On the surface this could be read as a general decline of the field but this is not the case.
“A few things are happening to ferry augmented reality across the Trough of Disillusionment. This year there were more headset manufacturers than ever before. The need for AR to go hands-free is becoming more & more evident [my biases]. I saw a handful of new manufacturers I’d never even heard of before. And there they were with fully-functional hardware rendering annotations on transparent surfaces. In order for AR to move from content to utility it has to drive hardware development into HUD’s. Google see’s this as does any other enterprise player in the mobile game. Many of the forward-looking discussions effectively assume a head’s-up experience.
Read the complete article at Wired.
There will not be one moment of the Olympics that is left untouched.
One undeniable trend about the Olympics over the last eight years is that its presence in online and mobile platforms has absolutely exploded.
In 2004, NBC launched a mobile website dedicated to people wanting to check out the latest medal counts and breaking news on their phone, but it was little more than truncated text and a few tiny images. This year, you’ll be able to watch every moment of the international sporting event from your phone.
Read the complete article at TG Daily.
Malica Astin, 11, never paid much attention to how much physical activity she got. But one day she played basketball while wearing a small activity tracker called a Zamzee on her waist. Later, she plugged it into a computer’s USB port and uploaded the data captured by the device’s accelerometers. Unlike a FitBit, a popular pedometer geared to adults, Malica’s Zamzee didn’t tell her how many steps she took or calories she burned. Instead, it gave her points for the movements she made.
Even months later, she recalls the details of that first windfall: 758 points. And why not? The points are a currency that she can spend in the virtual world of Zamzee.com, where she created an avatar and outfitted it with braces, a necklace, and a hula skirt.
Malica has since earned 3,612 “Zamz,” and could eventually save enough to get real items like an iPod Nano (16,000 Zamz) or Wii console (18,000 Zamz). “At first, I didn’t know what it was all about,” she says. “Then I really started liking it.”
Malica’s experience illustrates the goals of Zamzee, a startup that is testing the notion that the addictiveness of games can be harnessed to solve a seemingly intractable social ill—in this case, childhood obesity. Rather than focusing on weight loss or diet, Zamzee hopes to reward movement of any kind in children 11 to 14, the ages when, according to research, physical activity drops precipitously.
Read the complete article at Technology Review.
Researchers from MIT, Indiana University and Tufts University have developed a system that lets the user offload tasks to a computer when they have lots to do. Brainput uses a portable brain monitoring technology called functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), which scans the users brain and can detect when they are multitasking. An adaptive interface then adjusts the user’s workload and helps them out.
Read the complete article at psfk.
If bigger means better, then the Taman Anggrek certainly takes the cake. Not only is it the biggest mall in Indonesia, the massive complex also features the world’s longest LED media facade in the world. So what better place to feature some of the best generative art out there?
The massive 1160-foot-long screen towers over the city of Jakarta, wrapping around the exteriors of the sprawling skyscrapers. The works featured are commissioned by the media facade agency Standard Vision, who seamlessly integrate advertisements with the breathtaking generative visuals of artists such as Creator Casey Reas and Marius Watz.
Read the complete article at The Creators Project.
Image source: The Atlantic Wire
Written by Yong Kim
Kim Jung Il is dead. Sadam and Kadafi have been overthrown and executed. The model of the old-school dictator seems to be dying. Unfortunately, there’s a new dictator in town. Well, not really new, but its presence has never been more prevalent or obvious. This dictator is not just one person or regime. The neo-dictator is comprised of countless organizations, with its power being shifted and redistributed per agenda, so this dictator can’t ever really be killed off. Like any good tyrant, the neo-dictator is motivated by lust for money and power (the quench for which can never be sated). Naturally the neo-dictator’s most powerful tool is the law, laws like SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act), which are designed so content providers and their bed fellows could hold onto their outdated and dying business models. Perhaps it’s just a tactic to slow down technological advancement while they catch up.
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Image source: Creators Project
Written by Yong Kim
Erik Kessels’ installation shows what 24 hours of photos on Flickr looks like in physical form. The installation got me thinking about the exorbitant amount of pictures we take today. I’ve never been a big picture taker, that was until I got a digital camera. I have a little over a hundred physical pictures I’ve collected over my lifetime, but I have thousands in digital form, most of which I accumulated in a span of 3-4 years, starting about 7 years ago. My physical pictures I view once in a while, with a definite level of fondness, sometimes wishing I had taken more pictures. I took those pictures to commemorate specific events: nieces’ birthdays, the first time I went camping with my nieces, my last weekend in San Antonio before I moved back to LA, my college graduation, nieces’ high school graduations, dad’s 60th birthday, the last party I attended in Boston before I moved back to LA, pictures from my cross-country trips, when the family dog was just a puppy, and so on. Most of my digital pictures, however, are rather insignificant.
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Written by Yong Kim
While watching an episode of Sundance’s show Love Lust, “Love Lust & Street Eats,” it hit me that we truly are living in the era of remix. On the surface this episode was about the history of street food in America, from its humble beginning of simple foods like hot dogs and blue collar roots to the revolution into the current, nationwide food truck explosion and acceptance by gourmets and foodies. The theory informing this episode, however, is remix theory. The history of street food in America not only shows the level of remix that’s currently taking place (down to its marketing and the cuisine itself), but that the era of remix has been building up momentum for quite some time, beyond the arts and academia.
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Image source: PCWorld
Written by Yong Kim
Last week I attended a live filming of a podcast run by standup comedian, Steven E. Kimbrough (AKA Podbrother: podbrother.com), called “Read 3D Access.” He used the phrase “future-proofing your content.” I don’t know if he coined the phrase or not, but it was the first time I’d ever heard it. He said (and I’m paraphrasing here), using 3D only makes sense, that it’s a way to future-proof your content.
The Podbrother’s podcasts are always shot in front of a live audience, to add to the energy of the guests. The one I attended had guests ranging from fight choreographer John Kreng and actress Christina DeRosa to the team of Francesco Rotunno and Alessandra Vinotto and film director Abraham Makowka. Francesco Rotunno and Alessandra Vinotto directed the first Italian music video in 3D: “Wild Dogs Run,” by Hollowblue and Sukie Smith.
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Everything is a Remix Part 1 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.
Everything is a Remix is a four part web-film series directed and produced by Kirby Ferguson. It has been about a year since the first segment (above) was released. Since then, Ferguson has released parts two and three. The fourth and final installment is scheduled to be released this Fall of 2011, and I look forward to viewing it.
When I viewed part one, I really liked it, and thought that the title, while it may sound polemical to some degree (in a tongue-in-cheek sort of way), somewhat falls along the lines of how I view and have been discussing Remix as a form of discourse during the past few years. However, once I viewed the other two segments, I realized that the way some of the material is presented begins to water down the very foundation of the term “remix.”
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Image source: TechCrunch
Written by Yong Kim
Everyone seems to be at an uproar about Facebook’s latest feature, Timeline. Some people hate it with a passion; others seem to be indifferent or just mildly enthusiastic; while a few people have grown to love it, like Pete Cashmore of Mashable. Despite his fondness for Timeline, even Cashmore wrote an advisory article on the use of Timeline, explaining that “even the most technical among us should be aware that sharing everything is not always wise, and…selecting the right privacy settings can protect you against any mistakes. (quote source: Mashable). If you have concerns about Timeline, especially if you’re not sure how it functions, Cashmore’s article is worth a read.
I don’t care much about Timeline itself. I’m indifferent about it, to be honest. Like most of Facebook’s features, I will use it to my advantage and learn to accept aspects of it I don’t like. In the bigger scheme of things, however, I see Timeline as yet another move by Zuckerberg* and others (which includes Google and people like Robert Scoble and David Kirkpatrick) to control people online, to force people toward their agenda of online transparency.
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Note: This post is not about the rumor that Facebook is going to start charging for accounts.
Image capture source: Unthink.com
Written by Yong Kim
Facebook made some changes recently to their layout and added some new features. There are aspects to the changes that I like; and others I don’t. As usual, people griped. Also as usual, others provided some perspective, the most common sentiments being: it’s free and no one’s forcing you to use Facebook.
Let’s address the obvious first: Facebook is NOT free. We don’t pay for it with money, but we do give something to Facebook for its “free” service, something much more valuable than money: the copyrights to our profiles, which are comprised of our personal information. The service is “free” because everything we do (every comment, every single click, everything we share) gets logged, then datamined to produce metadata, which is then sold. There is a reason Facebook is worth billions of dollars. All of that information about us, the information about ourselves we so gladly provided and the data about our activities, is owned by Facebook, not us. If you want ownership of your information, then perhaps you should join Unthink.com, whose front page contains the catchphrase “emancipate yourself.”
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Image: 883 Manga series from the scanlation site OneManga.com.
Total number of pages: 1,074,790
Lev Manovich and Jeremy Douglass, 2010.
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ImagePlot is a free software tool that visualizes collections of images and video of any size. (The largest set we tried so was: 1,074,790 one megabyte images).
Written by Yong Kim
Google Gravity comes from the imagination of Ricardo Cabello, whose Google+ profile shows his occupation as “Pressing buttons” and employment as “Mr Doob.” His actual occupation is designer/developer. His site, Mr Doob, contains a variety of interactive new media projects, one of which is Google Gravity.
Back in March, in our own feature, No Man’s Land, I wrote about Google Sloppy, a lazy and inaccurate counterpart to Google, a humanistic version that yawns, makes mistakes and has malfunctioning parts. The search results I got from interacting with Google Sloppy didn’t yield any proper results, meaning Google Sloppy searched for something other than what I’d entered. When I searched for “Charlie Sheen Winning,” I got the results for “charlie shee nwinning.”
Unlike Google Sloppy, Google Gravity yields the correct results (i.e. the results you’d get from Google). As the name suggests, every link on Google’s home page–including the search field and links that are normally at the top of the screen–drops to the bottom when you enter the site. All subsequent searches get piled on top until you have a collage of search results. If someone doesn’t like the arrangement of the links, then she can move them around at any time, including the search field. As you can see from the screen capture above, I got my search field upside down, which was an accident, and couldn’t get right side up once the search results piled up.
Image: detail of video montage grid of “Hitler’s angry reaction to the iPad.” One of several remixes on Hitler’s Downfall. Larger images of this montage and others with proper explanation are included below.
Post-doctoral Research by Eduardo Navas
Key terms: Remix, Cultural Analytics, Memes, YouTube, Hitler Parodies, Film
As part of my post doctoral research for The Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway, I am using cultural analytics techniques to analyze YouTube video remixes. My research is done in collaboration with the Software Studies Lab at the University of California, San Diego. A big thank you to CRCA atCalit2 for providing a space for daily work during my stays in San Diego.
This is part 3 of a series of posts in which I introduce three case studies of YouTube video remixes. My first case study is the Charleston Style remixes. The second case study is Radiohead’s Lotus Flower remixes.
Read the complete article and view more remix videos at Software Studies.