I was jut reading a post on Autoblog about how Codemasters’ FUEL features 5,000+ square miles of drivable terrain. Evidently its a world record. And it got me thinking about automating the level-creation/mapping process for video games. Essentially taking Google Maps or Google Earth and assigning roads/topography/features references to 3D objects in the video game [...]
I’m no Microsoft fanboy, but this future-vision piece they put together paints quite an exciting view of the future. I especially love the idea of children collaborating and interacting from across the world, becasue if there’s anything we could use at this point, it’s a deeper understand and respect for divergent cultures & customs. The [...]
Skip to 1:19: I Need to Go to 53rd & 7th Right Now and report back with some first-hand impressions of the fancy-schmancy MSFT Surface-touch-thing-a-ma-jig…
There are a few components that will prime the pumps in the technology/media/lifestyle sectors and allow for enormous corporate growth in the next 18-24 months; and Amazon realizes this. At first-glance it would appear that Amazon just wants to join the media party and continue to offer feature-set parity with iTunes, and maybe that’s all [...]
After doing a little research yesterday into interactive/reactive visualizations of music (I’ll be attending and hopefully blogging Minitek), I stumbled across Blip Boutique – the creative/motion agency behind Interpol’s Rest My Chemistry video: So it turns out the Artist behind the code-driven visualizations is none other than Aaron Koblin. You may remember him from the [...]
Audi just developed an iPhone App promoting the new A4. Its top-scrolling driving game they claim they brought the game to market in 2 weeks from concept to completion. It shows. The experience feels cheap and runs counter to the actual driving experience of an Audi A4, which is amazing (disclaimer: I LOVE Audi/VW and [...]
Cool Touchscreen Wall @ Chicago O’Hare
(via TimesOnline UK) “Ten years ago I could never have imagined I’d be doing this,” says Greg Pal, 33, a former software executive, as he squints into the late afternoon Californian sun. “I mean, this is essentially agriculture, right? But the people I talk to – especially the ones coming out of business school – [...]
(via Autoblog) the GINA Light Visionary Model’s outer skin, which is made entirely out of textile fabric that’s pulled taut around a frame of metal and carbon fiber wires. The skeleton of the car is controlled by electro-hydraulic devices and can actually move and change shape beneath the fabric skin. For instance, the headlights of [...]
The functionality and promise of Adobe Connect is mouth-watering. The idea of what this thing could be isn’t an application, its a revolution. Collaborative screen-sharing, web-conferencing with integrated audio, video and text chat, file-sharing, the cure for blindness and cold-fusion. Great where do I sign up? Oh – its FREE?! We’re saved. Then you load [...]