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01.29.09Tasmanian 3D Lab to open in MarchABC News Australia reports on the forthcoming completion of the million-dollar Human Interface Technology (HIT) Lab that will open in March at the University of Tasmania. The lab will focus on creative design and interactive entertainment, and will allow students to create 3D virtual worlds that people can explore using 3D glasses. It will be only the third lab of its kind in the world, joining the HIT Lab US at the University of Washington and the HIT Lab NZ at the University of Canterbury. "There are only three in the world," said Lab director Professor Young Choi to ABC, ...
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04.01.08See the Future: Photosynth Tech Demo Now LiveMicrosoft's Photosynth wowed them at TED, and now the tech demo is live, letting you play with the same environments (and a few extras) they showed then. Words fail me. It really is an astonishing, brilliant and enriching experience. Forget Papervision for now. Forget Google Virtual Earth. This is a taste of the future. You can almost imagine being able to fly through the environment with an avatar. To drill down through the photos to see who took them. To link them to geotags. To layer a semantic Web on top. For all the talk of the metaverse roadmap, augmented reality, and ...
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