Hand-colored stereoscopic image of Sumo wrestlers c.1898

Lovely stereoscopic images by T. Enami are “animated” for viewing without glasses.

Cheap trick but effective.

See them here.

Monkeys are freaked out by almost-but-not-quite-real depictions of themselves. That tendency is well documented in humans, but has never before been seen in another species. To test their preference, researchers showed macaque monkeys real pictures, digital caricatures and realistic reconstructions of other monkey faces. To the latter, the macaques repeatedly averted their eyes. “The visual [...]

Apple today received a patent on a head-mounted laser video display… Apple’s innovation over previous head mounted displays is, in part, to separate the laser engine from the headgear, stowing the engine in a separate unit connected to the frames via fiber optic cable. Such an “iGlasses” setup … would allow a more immersive television, gaming [...]

Naimark here. Remember (oldsters) that I had been lobbying for a class project which enables online cinéastes to contribute to a group thing where cinematic continuity was the glue? My (purely academic) example was passing a “red ball” in and out of the frame, from different people in different locations. That was then. Some unevenly [...]

from the real NY Times : In an elaborate hoax, pranksters distributed hundreds or possibly thousands of free copies of a spoof edition of The New York Times on Wednesday morning at busy subway stations around the city, including Grand Central Terminal, Washington and Union Squares, the 14th and 23rd Street stations along Eighth Avenue, and Pacific [...]

Ars Electronica invites artists and scientists to submit proposals for new and novel ways to connect, in real time, people to people and people to environments in different physical locations. The goal is to expand and explore meaningful exchanges between remote groups of people.   The one essential requirement for all proposals is “live bits:” real-time [...]

Filmmaker Michael Horn: “I shot everything on my junkie DV camera, did motion-tracking and comping in After Effects, and basic sound design in Final Cut.” More in an interview in StarWarsBlog . Motion tracking, which uses computer vision techniques to track objects in the image, has virtually replaced motion control, which uses expensive mechanical and robotic cameras, [...]

This undated photo provided by Daniela Rus shows research technician Roy Libeau steadying a cow wearing an early prototype of the “Ear-A-Round” device at the USDA’s Jornada Experimental Range in Las Cruces, N.M. The device, created by researchers at the experimental range and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, can funnel voice commands and sounds directly into [...]

Leonardo DiCaprio to star in ‘Atari’ Tale about the godfather of video game industry By Borys Kit and Jay A. Fernandez http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i1751753614c1db77744a34deae6cb78b June 6, 2008, 09:19 PM Leonardo DiCaprio has more fake IDs than Fletch. The ubiquitous actor-producer has just become attached to star in “Atari,” a pitch that writers Brian Hecker and Craig Sherman sold [...]

“Viewfinder: How to Seamlessly ‘Flickrize’ Google Earth”

progress report and video went online today.