As many as 25,000 people will gather in Boston over the next five days for the ACM’s annual SIGGRAPH conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques.
There will be live acts, including a performance by a robotic percussionist, a computer animation festival, and a fashion show along with Panels, Keynotes, Exhibitors and Emerging [...]
PhotoSynth is a 3-D image “tourism” application being developed by Microsoft Research. Channel 9 has a preview of the application which can “map” public 2D images (like Flickr) to 3D space (like Second Life). Here’s a Live Demo and White Paper (pdf).
It’s a product in development and not ready for general consumption, [...]
A friend and myself are toying with the idea of creating a “virtual tour”. The test project would use tiny FM transmitters and MP-3 players.
I’ve mentioned this idea before. The idea is simple — you bike or walk around, listening to FM recordings at various locations. Buy a map for $3. Do it yourself. A [...]
The 2006 Submarine Ring of Fire expedition on the research vessel Melville is the third in a series of explorative expeditions to the submarine volcanoes of the Mariana Arc. Some 90% of the world’s earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire.
Bob Embley gives us a short video briefing of this adventure. The volcano, called NW [...]
Municipal wireless networks are now being built or planned in hundreds of cities. But what will be “on” it?
The hardware infrastructure must come first, but it’s software that does the real work. Cellular, WiFi and hard-wired networks are now becoming testbeds of groupware.
Navigation, social networking, location-based advertising, [...]
Ibuypower’s laptop with a 19″ screen [Text-to-Speech MP-3] may be just the ticket when a puny 17″ notebook display doesn’t cut it. The big screen portable sports two Nvidia GeForce graphics cards running in SLI mode and weighs 20 pounds.
The NB-SC600-SLI notebook, which starts around $3000, integrates an AMD Turion processor and up to [...]
You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into the Twilight Zone.
Google Map [...]
Ball State University is launching a digital media sculpture, consisting of 4 projection screens, computers, speakers and lights. It will broadcast interactive media that reacts to the amount of traffic on the campus’ 15 wireless zones, April 18 & 19.
The sculpture will contain its own wireless access points, sensing local interactions of viewers using [...]
CyberJournalist says concern about a possible bird flu epidemic is growing. Several Bird Flu Blogs are dedicated to tracking flu-related news.
An especially good one is influenzapandemic.blogspot.com, which post links daily to dozens of stories with the latest bird flu news, as well as linking to other blogs debating various theories about the flu. [...]
C/Net reports that Microsoft plans to buy Vexcel, a maker of remote sensing software and instruments, to help expand the software maker’s digital mapping efforts.
Microsoft said the pending deal will help it with its efforts “to deliver a dynamic immersive digital representation of the real world that provides the best local search and mapping [...]
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