Mark Bolas

World Press Photo 05 exhibition at Annenberg

100 steps as the crow flies from Lucas in the lobby of Annenberg School for Communications is a powerful exhibit of photographs from a press photography competition. Closes on the 30th. There is free food tonight - pretty good cheese and crackers.

Emerging Display Technologies - Call for Participation

Emerging Display Technologies—New Systems and Applications:
From Images to Sensing, Interaction and Enhancement
Call for Participation

One-Day Workshop (March 26, 2006)
with IEEE VR 2006, Alexandria, Virginia, USA

The recent flurry of display technology development has produced families of technologies that make fixed and projected pixels cheaper, faster, more flexible, and of higher quality. These advances enable ‘smart pixels’ and enable a number of burgeoning applications ranging from displays being used for better and more flexible images, to user interaction, scene sensing, and environment enhancement. Some example topics of interest include:

multiview, multifocal, or high dynamic range displays;
omnistereo projection systems;
ad hoc or “poor man’s” projection systems;
ultra wide field of view HMD optics;
ultra fast displays;
head-worn or hand-held (mobile) paradigms;
hybrid display systems and applications;
adaptive projector display systems;
extended color gamut or color matching displays;
projector-based user/device tracking, interaction, or Mixed Reality reconstruction;
embedded pixels for Spatially-Augmented Reality; and
rendering techniques associated with the above.

This one-day workshop should provide an opportunity to expand attendee thinking about ways to use contemporary display devices in VR systems and applications.

Paula (Sawyer) Fisher

Linked here is the obituary for Scott's mother.

IMD Forum for 01/11/06: New Year's Resolutions

Time: Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Location: USC's Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC)
Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML)

It is a New Year and a New Semester.

Tonight bring your laptops and media and we will all:

Present our goals for the semester
Find synergistic projects, study groups and resources
Present new and emerging works

Marientina, Julian, Jackie, Charles, Ian and Perry oh my. . .

Stereoscopic Displays and Applications AND

The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality are BOTH

being held NEXT

week in San Jose AND

Perry Hoberman AND

Marientina Gotsis AND

Julian Bleecker OF

Interactive Media AND

Jackie Morie OF

The Institute for Creative Technologies AND

Charles Swartz OF

the Entertainment Technology Center AND

Ian McDowall OF

Fakespace Labs WILL

all be there, AND

I am offering limited free crashing accomodations in Mountain View!

542 Class Notes - January 10, Week One

Hello all. I am sending my notes from class today in order to help with clairity. Note that while I asked for the description by midnight, in reality I need them first thing in the morning in order to share them with Perry and Peggy before your Thursday classes.

Please write up a short project proposal which highlights the following:

1st - tell me what you want to do for your first project
2nd - tell me how you think your going to do it (development environment)
3rd - tell me what you want out of this class (with a slight focus on the first two, but looking forward for the entire semester as well)

YES, THIS IS VERY MUCH A STUDIO CLASS

For the first project I would encourage ideas that are off the beaten trail with an expectation of a 3 to 5 week duration; interactive media focused; will have a component that makes sense for 544; is meaningful to you; produces a tangible artifact that resulted from cycling around the triangle discussed in class today.

Remember, after reading your proposals, Peggy, Perry and I will meet and the project definition will change, but let's start here and see where it goes, thanks. Of course this goes both ways - you are welcome to keep thinking about what you would like to do for the first project.

"CURIOSITY and PASSION"

Another take:

Project One: 3 to 5 weeks long. They learn a new development environment, or increase their knowledge and proficiency of one they already know. The environment is applied to a project of their own choosing, but probably not their pre-conceived thesis topic (if they have one). Ideally the topic is a bit strange or experimental or off the beaten path. I have asked them to write a quick (10 to 15 minutes of effort) description of what project topic they would like to consider for this project, so that I can discuss it with Perry/Peggy on Wednesday (tomorrow) before the Thursday classes.