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The Archives
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05.10.09Metanomics Synth-esizedA basic Photosynth of the stage area of Metanomics. Could really use more photos to make it a bit richer, I suppose. Strongly suggest you go to full screen mode, or visit the Synth here. Another, with the full region, which tends to 'split' the photos into groupings (use the thumbnail view to focus on a section): Or view it here.
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04.26.09Where Virtual Worlds are Going: Why is the New What, How is for Tomorrow (Report on 3DTLC)I was going to live blog the 3DTLC conference and take lots of detailed notes on the case studies and panel discussions but then got distracted by the Twitter feed of the show which was kind of exciting - I felt like I was at Metanomics casting out pithy comments in the back chat and feeling witty (which isn't the same as BEING witty, of course) except that I wished the panelists could WATCH the back chat - nothing like rattling them with a few comments to throw them off message right? In any case, it wasn't like my first virtual ...
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10.01.08Microsoft’s Future Vision: Immersive, 3D, and Surface-DeepCraig Mundie, research Chief at Microsoft, painted a vision of the direction of interfaces, cloud computing, and immersive worlds at the EmTech08 conference at MIT last week, according to SearchCIO. In this view, the future of computing will be about computerizing the physical environment - think a mash-up between Bill Gate's Seattle house, I guess, PhotoSynth, and Minority Report. "If we are to realize the potential that a combination of local and remote computing offers us. The next computing evolution, he said, will be defined by multi-core processing and parallel programming; it will be context-aware, model-based, personalized, humanistic, adaptive, immersive, 3-D and ...
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05.28.08Papervision Tag Galaxy – Mapping Meaning in 3DForgotten in the debate about avatars and identity is the idea of 3D space as an intuitive way to conceptualize information. Papervision is increasingly being used to organize concepts, as seen in the now famous White Void application - sure, it's just a spinny looking file folder system, but there's something that just feels right about it - concepts nested in concepts, 3D space, hierarchy of data. Others are pushing the limits as well. Tag Galaxy takes tags from Flickr and maps them as a galaxy of terms. Each planet is a tag - and if you click each planet it ...
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04.24.08Community Planning Crashes Head-First Into Web 2.0Planning cities and buildings - the real ones - has, for a long-time, been a top-down exercise. Meaning that concepts and city plans were, for the most part, implemented from on high through architects, city planners, consultants and developers, allowing for very little collaboration with those in the "bottom" and those for whom these projects would impact the most - namely, the ordinary citizen. And there are lessons for other industries in how typical hierarchal disciplines can use the tools of Web 2.0 to communicate with their "users". A fascinating article published by the American Planning Association argues that the Web 2.0 ...
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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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03.19.08Want Addictive? Try FlickrVision – Catch-All Apps and GawkablesFlickrVisionThere's something hypnotic about this - a real time stream of photos being posted to Flickr, showing the location of the person uploading on the globe, which rotates and spins. (There's also TwitterVision for those more inclined). Now, a Google virtual earth may be some time off, but these are little hints of things to come - mirror worlds, augmented reality: being able to swim through data and content that's geo-positioned in a virtual world. PhotoSynth Photosynth being demo'd by Microsoft is a similar preview of the future and it's astonishing. In this case, it takes photos from a variety of sources (for ...
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