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2012-05-07

TheBlu: World's First Social Digital Ocean App

"theBlu", social digital ocean app launched

NEW YORK: Wemo Media, the Venice, CA-based entertainment studio, on friday, 4 May 2012, announced the launch of "theBlu," a globally shared art and entertainment experience. Inspired by the world's oceans, "theBlu" is a living and breathing digital art exhibit of ocean habitats and species, created by artists and developers from all over the world.

Source: "theBlu", social digital ocean app launched

Wemo Media

The Blu

The Blu is a global mission to create the ocean on the web as a globally shared media experience. It is a beautiful interactive online world where every species and habitat is a unique work of art created by digital artists and developers around the world. The Blu is a geosocial web application where people connect across the Internet and explore a vast ocean on the web. Check it out...

Source: Wemo Media

TheBlu User Intro Video - YouTube

Source: TheBlu User Intro Video - YouTube

TheBlu - Screensaver

What is theBlu?
Inspired by the Oceans, theBlu is a socially-connected, global interactive screensaver. Each time you participate, your interactions and connections impact the flow of life in theBlu and everyone's experience of it.
TheBlu is created and curated Academy Award-winning leaders and world-class artists and developers - we call them Makers. Each time you purchase beautiful species and habitats to add to the globally-connected Ocean, you support oceanic conservation.
Once you install theBlu screensaver, you can:

Explore and experience a beautiful online 3D underwater world as easily as browsing the Web.

Connect and interact with your friends via Facebook and go diving together in theBlu.

Have fun learning about the Oceans because theBlu is both entertaining and educational.

Support oceanic conservation each time you purchase 3D species and habitat art work.

TheBlu is available on Mac and PC. It requires a one-time, one-click, quick download. TheBlu will soon be available on iPad, iPhone, Android and other devices. (read more about our tech specs)

Source: TheBlu - Screensaver

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2010-12-19

Turbulence TAU Hyper-Narrative Interactive Movie -- Change a Plot While You Watch

Change the course of a film plot--while you watch | Crave - CNET

Ever found yourself yelling, "Noooo, don't do it!" at a movie screen? Or been in the mood for a happy ending and found yourself halfway through a film you knew would leave you in a puddle of tears?

A new system out of Israel's Tel Aviv University allows viewers to influence a movie's plot while viewing it, thus affecting the progression of events. For now, audiences are testing the technology with a full-length interactive pilot feature, "Turbulence." But the plan is to extend the tool to other "hyper-narrative interactive movies," including commercials and television series, said Nitzan Ben Shaul, a professor of film and television studies at the university who created the system.

Collected from: Change the course of a film plot--while you watch | Crave - CNET

American Friends of Tel Aviv University: Choose a Movie's Plot -- While You Watch It

On the set of Turbulence

Utilizing complicated video coding procedures, the new format provides smooth interaction and transition between scenes as audience members watch — and determine the plot of — Turbulence, created by Prof. Nitzan Ben Shaul of Tel Aviv University's Department of Film and Television. Made with his unique scene-sequencing technique, Turbulence recently won a prize at the Berkeley Video and Film Festival for its technological innovation.

Collected from: American Friends of Tel Aviv University: Choose a Movie's Plot -- While You Watch It

Nitzan Ben-Shaul Researcher's site

Prof. Nitzan Ben-Shaul Ph.D. Film And Television
FACULTY OF THE ARTS
Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Nitzan Ben Shaul is Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies and former acting chair of the Film and Television Department at Tel Aviv University. He received his PhD from the Cinema Studies Dept. at New York University. He has authored several scholarly books among them Mythical Expressions of Siege in Israeli Films (Edwin Mellen, 1997), A Violent World: TV News Images of Middle Eastern Terror and War (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006), Film: The Key Concepts (Berg, 2007), and Hyper-narrative Interactive Cinema: Problems and Solutions (Rodopi, 2008). [...]

Collected from: Nitzan Ben-Shaul Researcher's site

Turbulence on Channel 10 News on Vimeo

Turbulence is an Israeli start-up commercializing a TAU patent that greatly simplifies and makes possible compelling interactive professional movies and audiovisual content. Their patented authoring tool and player software greatly simplifies and automates the current labor-intensive, complex process of creating an interactive video.

Collected from: Turbulence on Channel 10 News on Vimeo

Sources: Change the course of a film plot--while you watch | Crave - CNET; American Friends of Tel Aviv University: Choose a Movie's Plot -- While You Watch It; Nitzan Ben-Shaul Researcher's site; Turbulence on Channel 10 News on Vimeo

Related: Choose a movie's plot -- while you watch it; Choose and Change A Movie's Plot -- While You Watch: TAU Turbulence Technology | Before It's News; DIY cinema: Now, direct a film while watching it - The Times of India; New hyper-narrative interactive movie gives viewers control | MyCE – My Consumer Electronics; "Turbulence," an Interactive Movie, Coming Soon to an iPad Near You | Fast Company

2009-12-01

The Keepon Robot

clipped from beatbots.net

Keepon is a small creature-like robot designed to interact with children by directing attention and expressing emotion. Keepon’s minimal design makes its behaviors easy to understand, resulting in interactions that are enjoyable and comfortable—particularly important in our research on human social development.

Keepon has soft rubber skin, cameras in its eyes, and a microphone in its nose:

Keepon has been used since 2003 in research on social development and communication. We have studied behaviors such as eye-contact, joint attention, touching, emotion, and imitation between Keepon and children of different ages and levels of social development. In the case of children with autism and other developmental disorders, we have had encouraging results with the use of Keepon as a tool for therapists, pediatricians, and parents to observe, study, and facilitate social interactions.

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RoboBusiness: Keepon dancing robot's place in autism therapy

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Simple Keepon Robot Wows Humans

Although originally designed as a therapeutic tool for children, the unexpected public appeal of the Keepon robot has spurred its creators to launch a company, Beatbots, that will bring an affordable version to the masses.

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Keepon robot makes a big impression at IREX (Video)

Michalowski noted that the long term BeatBots strategic plan includes a lower cost version for the general consumer market, but the company wants to approach commercialization very cautiously and without compromising the robots performance and quality in the process.

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Keepon dancing to Spoon's "Don't You Evah"

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Keepon: Friend or Foe?

Carnegie Mellon alum Daniel H. Wilson (author of "How to Build a Robot Army" and host of "The Works") meets the dancing yellow robot Keepon and overcomes his robot paranoia. More info at http://www.cmu.edu/robou

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Responsive Mirror -- Dressing Rooms Of The Future

Clipped from: BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | Parc overflowing with new ideas

Parc overflowing with new ideas

The Palo Alto Research Center (Parc) in California is a place overflowing with new ideas. Its legendary inventions are well chronicled in several books.

Clipped from: Real-time clothes comparison based on multi-view vision - PARC (Palo Alto Research Center)

Real-time clothes comparison based on multi-view vision

[...] we present a clothing recognition system that augments clothes recommendation and fashion exploration using the intelligent multi-view vision technology of the Responsive Mirror, an implicitly controlled human-computer interaction system for clothes fitting rooms. The Responsive Mirror provides shoppers with real-time "self" and "social" clothes comparisons. The system recommends clothing that is "similar" and "different" than the clothing that the person is trying on in the mirror.

Clipped from: PARC's responsive mirror = every girl's shopping fantasy come true | Boing Boing Gadgets

PARC's responsive mirror = every girl's shopping fantasy come true

By streaming video taken by the camera through their spatially oriented machine learning software, PARC researchers have figured out how to give people like me a real-time interactive comparison shopping experience. The responsive mirror system, which comes in both a desktop and full-length version, displays previously worn outfits on a second "mirror" — the playback of a movie taken by a webcam on the ceiling that locates you spatially within the frame and then finds the same angled shot from the previous clip. The technology hasn't hit retailers yet, but PARC researchers are hoping to implement it in dressing rooms soon.

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2009-06-05

Interactive Data Eyeglasses

clipped from www.popsci.com

Heads-Up Display Embedded In Glasses

A German company turns regular glasses into an eye-motion-controlled PDA screen

clipped from www.fraunhofer.de

Interactive Data Eyeglasses

The data eyeglasses can read from the engineer’s eyes which details he needs to see on the building plans. A CMOS chip with an eye tracker in the microdisplay makes this possible. The eyeglasses are connected to a PDA, display information and respond to commands.

For car designers, secret agents in the movies and jet fighter pilots, data eyeglasses – also called head-mounted displays, or HMDs for short – are everyday objects. They transport the wearer into virtual worlds or provide the user with data from the real environment. At present these devices can only display information. “We want to make the eyeglasses bidirectional and interactive so that new areas of application can be opened up,” says Dr. Michael Scholles, business unit manager at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS in Dresden.

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Interactive Data Eyeglasses

2009-04-05

EyeClick Interactive Displays

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EyeClick – Futuristic interactive displays breathes life into advertising

Israel based EyeClick is a world leader in interactive media display solutions. Comprising of Eye Step, EyeTouch and EyeWall. EyeStep, these kinds of displays transform floors, walls, and window areas into stunning interactive platform that attract and capture more attention from the target audience resulting in effective promotions and greater brand recall.

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EyeStep – the unique interactive floor.

By combining interactive surfaces (a combination of our interactive flooring and wall display) with intuitive human body motion, we create full-body interaction – the perfect tool for innovative interactive marketing

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Interactive carpet -Dutch Ministry of tourism using Eyeclick

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EyeTouch – the unique interactive media platform.

EyeTouch transforms any glass surface into an interactive form of creative expression.
It creates on-the-spot interaction with passers-by at events.
In short, it’s the ideal tool for optimizing interactive point-of-sale

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EyeTouch from eyeclick.com

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EyeBoard is an interactive tabletop surface.

It is an innovative system that turns any ordinary board into an exciting self-activated experience (interactive board).
Activated by motion detection, each flat surface can be turned into an innovative information system – the ideal sales tool!

clipped from www.youtube.com

EyeBoard - Magical Interactive Table

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EyeClick – Futuristic interactive displays breathes life into advertising
Eyeclick - Interactive floors, surfaces, tables, windows
YouTube - BACARDI
Eyeclick Calvin Klein
YouTube - EyeBoard - Magical Interactive Table
YouTube - Interactive carpet -Dutch Ministry of tourism using Eyeclick

2009-02-24

Sensacell a Smart Human Interface Technology

Clipped from: +SENSACELL+

Clipped from: digitalexperience » Blog Archive » Sensacell

The Sensacell system consists of 6 inch x inch modules which comprise interactive sensor surfaces that can be assembled to any size or shape. The modules contain brightness LED lightning arrays available in many colours, shapes and sizes. This provides a wide variety of visual feedback possibilities.

Clipped from: Sensacell RGB Color Module Demo

Sensacell RGB Color Module Demo

The Sensacell system is a revolutionary human interface technology ideal for smart architecture, interactive multimedia, retail entertainment, and a host of exciting new applications. This video shows the HS61-36-RGB module in action

Clipped from: Sensacell Storefront Window Kiosk Demo

Sensacell Storefront Window Kiosk Demo

Clipped from: Sensacell Corporation Provides Interactive Floor System for the 2008 World Expo, in Zaragoza Spain.

Sensacell Corporation Provides Interactive Floor System for the 2008 World Expo, in Zaragoza Spain.

Sensacell Corporation announces its contribution to the 2008 World Expo, themed "Water and Sustainable Development." The floor graces the entrance to the Spain Pavilion, "Comunitat Valenciana." Visitors walking across the floor leave behind luminous footprints, a striking visual metaphor for the "footprint" created by the actions of mankind in his environment. The 250 Square foot (25 square meter) floor system consists of over 1000 Sensacell HSI64-36-W interactive modules, each module contains capacitive sensors and a LED lighting system, the capacitive sensors allows the floor to detect and respond to visitors footsteps right through the 20 mm thick architectural glass that forms the surface of the floor.