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June 22, 2006
June 14, 2006
Where 2.0
Where 2.0 is in progress up in San Jose:
Where2.0 brings together the people, projects, and issues leading the charge into the location based technological frontier. Join us to debate and discuss what's viable now, and what's lurking just below the radar. There's no better place to meet the people behind the mash-ups and platforms, and the folks looking ahead to the future of geospace.
Check out some of the amazing demos and presentations blogged on the conference blog and on Wired yesterday and today.
June 13, 2006
ACE 2006 in Hollywood
Starting tomorrow - ACE 2006 here in Hollywood.
The field of computer entertainment technology has aroused great interest recently amongst researchers and developers in both academic and industrial / business fields as it is duly recognized as showing high promise of bringing on exciting new forms of human computer interaction. Now deemed deserving of both serious academic research, as well as major industry and business uptake, techniques used in computer entertainment are also seen to translate into advances in research work ranging from industrial training, collaborative work, novel interfaces, novel multimedia, network computing and ubiquitous computing. The purpose of this conference is to bring together academic and industry researchers, artists and designers and computer entertainment developers and practitioners, to address and advance the research and development issues related to computer entertainment.
As part of the conference, IMD is hosting a reception in the ZML and GIL starting at 7pm, Wednesday evening, 6/14. It will include several live interactive events for ACE conference attendees:
- "Tracking Agama", an Alternate Reality Game that invites users to explore downtown Los Angeles like never before.
- "Andrew Rivolski", a real-time collaborative game experience played by teams in matching room-sized immersive video environments over a 10G link between USC and Keio University in Shonan Fujisawa, Japan.
- "SnapShotMapPlot" , a preview of a Mixed Reality project collaboration between the Mixed Reality Lab at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and the Interactive Media Division. In the game, one player attempts to catch the other while avoiding AI predators. One player (the ‘Terran’) is outdoors, running around the USC campus, while the other (the ‘Avian’) flies around a 3D Model of the USC campus.
[Also, recent IMD grad, WIll Carter presented at ACE2004 in Singapore and posted about it here:
Carter, W., Fisher, S. "Mobile Sound Communities". Proceedings of Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE), Singapore (June 2005).]
June 5, 2006
PBS on Interactive Media
NOW . Tangled Web . 2016: A Peek at Our Internet Future . 6.2.06 | PBS
Today, interactive media is still the tail of "mainstream media" and not quite yet the big dog. But in the years to come this trend will reverse, as interactive media becomes the dominant form of communication worldwide. You can see hints of this today as video games get larger budgets than some Hollywood films, and as programs like Microsoft Word add features that allow anyone to publish a blog.
As the Internet matures, it will become more of an art form and less about technology. Just as Charlie Chaplin and Sergei Eisenstein helped define the language of cinema in the early 20th century, a new generation growing up on MySpace and Flickr will shape and define this maturing medium. The Internet generation of today will eventually give us the Citizen Kane of the 21st century.
Jack PC
Hey, let's get a bunch of these for the ZML:
Jack PC from Jade Integration - a computer in your wall!
The Jack PC is a revolutionary new 'thin client' computer made by Chip PC Technologies. Thin clients are effectively desktop computers designed to connect to a 'terminal server' or Citrix based environment where processing is handled by servers instead of PCs. Thin clients have been getting smaller and smaller over the years however this is the world's first Windows-based thin client small enough to fit in a network wall port. The benefits to business are massive since there's no longer a need for desktop PCs at all - your monitor, keyboard and mouse just plug into the wall!
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