Reactable: a collaborative tactile musical interface
Reactable – collaborative tactile musical interface. The description says it all. Check it out, it is cool.
View ArticleMicrosoft Surface, a multi-touch interface device
Popular Mechanics has a video of Microsoft Surface, a table-sized multi-touch interface device. It is based on the work of Jeff Han, whose work I have blogged about before. Although it seems remarkably...
View ArticleFix8 Brings Computer Generated Animation To The Webcam
I blogged about Logitech QuickCam Effects about a year ago. Today TechCrunch is reporting about fix8, a company offering a more advanced form of this technology. fix8 combines video, animation and...
View ArticleIntel To Acquire Havok
Read Intel’s press release. I wonder what that means for Havok on non-Intel platforms. Like all current consoles. Is it RenderWare all over again? Well, probably not, but it might have some amusing...
View ArticleVocaloid 2: Yamaha’s anime song generator
Here is an interesting article about Vocaloid 2, a program developed by Yamaha that, given lyrics and a melody, generates anime-style singing. The singing sounds like a normal human voice modified by...
View ArticlePhun: a simulated physics playground
Phun: a simulated physics playground . Swedish graduate student Emil Ernerfeldt created the program Phun, a 2D physics playground, and has made it free to download for non-commercial use. He...
View ArticleAll Points Bulletin’s character creation system
Here is a video of All Points Bulletin’s character creation system: It’s very sophisticated. I’ve done some work on avatar systems and there’s a metric ton’s worth of nasty little issues – mainly...
View ArticleLarrabee and rasterization
This is a story that has needled me for a while, but never to the point of writing about it. Until today, when I read a blog entry by Tom Forsyth about how Intel’s Larrabee will actually be able to do...
View ArticleIntegrating real-time real-world data into games
BBC News has an article about incorporating real-time racing data into racing games. The patented system [iOpener] is developing sucks in real-time GPS data from racing events and pumps it out to...
View ArticleAiGameDev.com launches new premium membership area on game AI
Time to help friends with a little publicity: On October 1st, AIGameDev.com, one of the top websites for AI in games, launched a premium membership area. It contains a ton of content, such as code...
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