It’s an interesting twist that home cinema equipment is becoming so good that in an attempt to attract people out of their houses, film companies are once again making 3D movies. Here’s an article explaining some of the lengths they need to go to to make it work.
Johnny Chung Lee - Projects - Wii
23-Jul-08
A colleague reminded me today of the work of Johnny Chung Lee with innovative uses of the Wii remote, and suggested that I add a link here. So here it is. Enjoy!
Johnny Chung Lee - Projects - Wii
Update: It looks like he has been recognized and rewarded for this work and it accompanying publicity. See here for more.
Lively start for 3D mashups
14-Jul-08
Plenty of other people are commenting on this, so I might as well join in. Google have released what seems to be essentially a 3D chatroom environment. I’m guessing that the folks at Google are making use of their software portfolio, so this is probably some sort of visual wrapper round XMPP, as used for Google Talk. The 3D design of the rooms looks as if it hails from the approach used in SketchUp, so I would not be at all surprised if some sort of integration with Google Earth were to come along in a while and add a geolocation aspect to this system.
What it most definately is not (at least right now) is a central collaborative environment in the vein of Second Life or World of Warcraft.
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