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2011-12-27

Robot Wrestling

Video: Robot Wrestlers battle it out at Robotech

Source: Video: Robot Wrestlers battle it out at Robotech

Robot Pro Wrestling Dekinnoka 10! Main Event | Robots Dreams

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GetRobo Blog English: The Genuine Great King Kizer follows "Moore's Law"

The Shin Great King Kizer won the ROBO-ONE Grand Prix which was held in November. It also participated in the "world's first" wrestling match between a robot and a professional (human) wrestler.

Source: GetRobo Blog English: The Genuine Great King Kizer follows "Moore's Law"

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2010-09-16

Action Video Games lead to Faster Decisions

CTV British Columbia - Video games improve decision-making skills: study - CTV News

Video games may not be a waste of time after all. A new study finds that playing certain kinds of games actually helps improve quick decision-making skills that can be used in all aspects of life, from driving to keeping track of friends in a crowd.

Cognitive scientists from the University of Rochester report the findings of new research, which show video game players make faster decisions – not just "trigger happy" faster decisions, but accurate decisions.

Collected from: CTV British Columbia - Video games improve decision-making skills: study - CTV News

Shoot 'Em Ups Are Good For You, Study Says As New Halo Xbox Game Launched | Technology | Sky News

Collected from: Shoot 'Em Ups Are Good For You, Study Says As New Halo Xbox Game Launched | Technology | Sky News

Video Games Lead to Faster Decisions that are No Less Accurate : University of Rochester News

The researchers tested dozens of 18- to 25-year-olds who were not ordinarily video game players. They split the subjects into two groups. One group played 50 hours of the fast-paced action video games "Call of Duty 2" and "Unreal Tournament," and the other group played 50 hours of the slow-moving strategy game "The Sims 2."

After this training period, all of the subjects were asked to make quick decisions in several tasks designed by the researchers. In the tasks, the participants had to look at a screen, analyze what was going on, and answer a simple question about the action in as little time as possible (i.e. whether a clump of erratically moving dots was migrating right or left across the screen on average). In order to make sure the effect wasn't limited to just visual perception, the participants were also asked to complete an analogous task that was purely auditory.

The action game players were up to 25 percent faster at coming to a conclusion and answered just as many questions correctly as their strategy game playing peers.

A test subject attempts to determine whether the erratically moving dots on a computer screen are moving left or right on average during a study at the University of Rochester August 24, 2010.

Participants in a University of Rochester study, "Improved probabilistic inference as a general learning mechanism with action video games", by UR professor of brain and cognitive science Daphne Bavelier played 50 hours of video games over multiple weeks. Players who played action games like Call of Duty 2 (pictured here) made quicker decisions than those who played slow-paced strategy games like The Sims without sacrificing accuracy.

Collected from: Video Games Lead to Faster Decisions that are No Less Accurate : University of Rochester News

Current Biology - Improved Probabilistic Inference as a General Learning Mechanism with Action Video Games

Current Biology, Volume 20, Issue 17, 1573-1579, 14 September 2010

Authors

C. Shawn Green, Alexandre Pouget, Daphne Bavelier

Highlights

Action video game experience is shown to improve probabilistic inference
Demonstrated via well-studied motion integration task and recent neural model
Generality of effect demonstrated with novel auditory decision-making task
Provides possible mechanism for wide transfer engendered by action game training

Collected from: Current Biology - Improved Probabilistic Inference as a General Learning Mechanism with Action Video Games

Sources: CTV British Columbia - Video games improve decision-making skills: study - CTV News; Shoot 'Em Ups Are Good For You, Study Says As New Halo Xbox Game Launched | Technology | Sky News; Video Games Lead to Faster Decisions that are No Less Accurate : University of Rochester News; Current Biology - Improved Probabilistic Inference as a General Learning Mechanism with Action Video Games

Related: Video games lead to faster decisions that are no less accurate; Video games lead to faster decisions that are no less accurate; Gamers Better at Fast Decision-Making | Wired Science | Wired.com; BBC News - Action video gamers better at making quick decisions; Gamers make faster decisions than nongamers, just as accurate; Video Mayhem Enlivens Decision Making - Science News; Action Video Games Train Brains For Faster Decisions With No Loss In Accuracy

2008-08-22

Image Metrics -- lifelike animations

Image Metrics recently created a completely convincing photo-real Computer Graphics face animation at HD resolution.

Demo

Clipped from: YouTube - Meet "Emily" - Image Metrics Tech Demo

Until the 1:30 mark when they revert back to the source (the real actress), her entire face is being simulated by the technology.

News

Clipped from: Video: Lifelike animation heralds new era for computer games - Times Online

Lifelike animation heralds new era for computer games
'Emily' will set a new precedent for photo-realistic characters in video games and films, says her creator, Image Metrics
Extraordinarily lifelike characters are to begin appearing in films and computer games thanks to a new type of animation technology.
Emily - the woman in the above animation - was produced using a new modelling technology that enables the most minute details of a facial expression to be captured and recreated.

Project

Clipped from: The Emily Project | Image Metrics : Performance-Driven Facial Animation Solutions for the Digital World

The Emily Project
When we first started working on Emily, our goal was to create an exact replica of the real actress Emily O'Brien. Why? Because there was no other way to determine how close we had come to reality if we did not replicate a "real" person. Judging from the reaction of people at SIGGRAPH, and the media, we've come pretty close to the mark.

2008-07-15

Golfzilla -- Play Golf in Google Maps

Playing online simulated golf on the world most renown golf courses. This will be possible with Golfzilla, a mashup of Google Map’s Satellite images and a Golf game, developed for the Android powered smartphones which are expected to become available by the end of this year.

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Golfzilla

Golfzilla is golf game that is currently in development using Android. The game uses Google Maps satellite imagery of various golf courses in different countries. Golfzilla is expected to be available at the end of 2008 and should support a peer to peer competition mode using GTalk.

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Golfzilla isn't that cool, but it lets you play golf on Google Maps with the option to select the country and the course. So instead of fancy 3D graphics, you are actually playing as if you were on the ground, but from a bird's eye view. The final release of Golfzilla is expected to be available at the end of 2008 and will support P2P battle mode using GTalk. That's pretty much in line with the expected launch of Android.

2008-05-18

Cognitive Fun -- Improve Your Fluid Intelligence

Some examples of a computer based brain-training method designed to improve working memory, which as has been reported recently by a Swiss-American team, also increases scores in "fluid intelligence", or general problem-solving ability.

clipped from www.sciencedaily.com

Brain-training To Improve Memory Boosts Fluid Intelligence

New findings show that multiple efforts designed to improve memory skills similarly improve fluid intelligence. (Credit: iStockphoto/Kiyoshi Takahase Segundo)

Many psychologists believe general intelligence can be separated into "fluid" and "crystalline" components. Fluid intelligence—considered one of the most important factors in learning—applies to all problems while crystallized intelligence consists of skills useful for specific tasks.

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk

'Brain training' games do work, study finds

An example of the sequence of squares that participants were shown in the tests

clipped from cognitivefun.net

cognitive fun!

Eriksen flanker test

Jaeggi/Buschkuehl dual n-back task

Fast counting

2008-04-18

Emotiv's new brain-computer interface

Emotiv Systems recently unveiled a brain/computer interface system with a helmet and software applications. The Project Epoc system can move objects based on a gamer's thoughts, reflect facial expressions, and respond to the excitement or calm the gamer mentally exerts.

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Brain controlled computer games

Below is a video discussing and demonstrating Emotiv's new brain interface.

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Emotiv Systems introduces a sensor-laden headset that interprets gamers' intentions, emotions and facial expressions

EPOC GAMING HEADSET: Emotiv's $299 EPOC headset (with 14 sensors) will enable gamers to use their own brain activity to interact with the virtual worlds where they play.
Courtesy of Emotiv Systems

The EPOC detects brain activity noninvasively using electroencephalography (EEG), a measure of brain waves, via external sensors along the scalp that pick up the electrical bustle in various parts of the furrowed surface of the brain's cortex, a region that handles higher order thoughts.

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2008-02-12

Emergent Behavior of Complex Systems

In philosophy, systems theory and the sciences, emergence refers to the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions. Emergence is central to the theory of complex systems.

Emergence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Try out this demo:

What’s happening here is that each worm is following two rules: 1) try to move in the same direction as nearby worms (commonly known as the cohesion rule) and 2) move away from other worms if they get too close (known as the separation rule). There is some randomness thrown in so that worms will sporadically move in an arbitrary direction, to give the system a more organic feel. The result is the effect you see: a shifting pattern of motion comprised of groups of individuals, each of which is just moving according to the same two rules.

Christian Cenizal, Designer-Developer (Flocking and emergent behavior)

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2008-01-17

Samsung 3D TV (video)

Play 3D Games and Watch TV with the New Samsung 3-D DLP® HDTV

2008-01-15

a la Mobile Demonstrates Android

clipped from www.usatoday.com

Introducing the first Android prototype

NEW YORK — A small software developer on Monday plans to unveil a suite of applications — browser, camera, games and more — based on the new Google-endorsed operating system, Android.

A La Mobile, based in San Ramon, Calif., a start-up dedicated to Linux-based "open" systems for mobile devices, says the demonstration proves that Android can deliver on its promise of making it easier for consumers to get access to all sorts of applications.

The open nature of Android means, "There can be a lot more customization, reducing the cost of devices as well as development time," says Pauline Lo Alker, A La Mobile's CEO.