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  • I heard about the Microsoft challenge where you would take your cell phone and try to do something faster then someone on a Microsoft Mobile 7 phone. If you can win, you get a laptop.  Given that they are doing this in the first place, I figured that this is...

    Why you will not win the Microsoft challenge, even if you do

    Posted on March 26, 2012 | No Comments
    I heard about the Microsoft challenge where you would take your cell phone and try to do something faster then someone on a Microsoft Mobile 7 phone. If you can win, you get a laptop.  Given that they are doing this in the first place, I figured that this is...

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  • Here is a pretty cool demonstration done by Laan Labs that takes the video and depth mapping information from a Microsoft Kinect and uses that data to create a 3D model for an augmented reality mobile application seen through the iPad 2. Basically how this works is you shoot something,...

    3D Video within Live Video. Kinect my augmented reality to an iPad 2

    Posted on July 2, 2011 | 1 Comment
    Here is a pretty cool demonstration done by Laan Labs that takes the video and depth mapping information from a Microsoft Kinect and uses that data to create a 3D model for an augmented reality mobile application seen through the iPad 2. Basically how this works is you shoot something,...

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  • Here is a rather cool hack that connects a Microsoft Kinect device to a 3D avatar by German based Bitmanagement Software. Bitmanagement Software GmbH is a developer of real-time 3D rendering, augmented reality, and 2D/3D/video multimedia software and tools for interactive online capable applications on crossplatform consumer hardware, based on...

    Microsoft Kinect gives a face to a 3D avatar

    Posted on June 19, 2011 | No Comments
    Here is a rather cool hack that connects a Microsoft Kinect device to a 3D avatar by German based Bitmanagement Software. Bitmanagement Software GmbH is a developer of real-time 3D rendering, augmented reality, and 2D/3D/video multimedia software and tools for interactive online capable applications on crossplatform consumer hardware, based on...

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  • As an advocate of web3d and those efforts to make it ubiquitous, I have questioned why Microsoft has not supported WebGL in their Internet Explorer browser when every other browser maker does. Seems the problem for Microsoft with WebGL is over security concerns. A recent set of reports by UK-based...

    What is your deal with WebGL Microsoft?

    Posted on June 17, 2011 | No Comments
    As an advocate of web3d and those efforts to make it ubiquitous, I have questioned why Microsoft has not supported WebGL in their Internet Explorer browser when every other browser maker does. Seems the problem for Microsoft with WebGL is over security concerns. A recent set of reports by UK-based...

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  • I was recently exposed to SVG Girl (thanks Avi) and as a fan of anime and web technology, what a treat! At first glance, SVG Girl looks like a video of an anime, in reality it is an interactive video using all Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)! SVG is a family of specifications...

    SVG Girl – interactive 2D anime in the browser

    Posted on May 31, 2011 | No Comments
    I was recently exposed to SVG Girl (thanks Avi) and as a fan of anime and web technology, what a treat! At first glance, SVG Girl looks like a video of an anime, in reality it is an interactive video using all Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)! SVG is a family of specifications...

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  • Still recovering from an augmented reality that happened last week. The video footage below shows elements from the Augmented Reality Event (ARE) 2011 in Santa Clara, CA on May 17-18. This was the 2nd annual event of the largest conference dedicated to the business of augmented reality. Start-ups, developers, mobile...

    Augmented Reality Event 2011 video

    Posted on May 26, 2011 | 1 Comment
    Still recovering from an augmented reality that happened last week. The video footage below shows elements from the Augmented Reality Event (ARE) 2011 in Santa Clara, CA on May 17-18. This was the 2nd annual event of the largest conference dedicated to the business of augmented reality. Start-ups, developers, mobile...

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  • This is a great video. By far the ultimate Microsoft Kinect hack!

    Kinect self-awareness hack :P

    Posted on May 3, 2011 | No Comments
    This is a great video. By far the ultimate Microsoft Kinect hack!

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  • This week Layar, the mobile augmented reality platform, announced on their blog the launch of the Layer Player. The Layar Player is a unique piece of code that can be embedded directly within your own iPhone app. Yes, seems it only is available for iPhone apps. Nice thing is there...

    Layar’s AR Browser Now Made Possible for All iPhone Apps

    Posted on January 29, 2011 | 1 Comment
    This week Layar, the mobile augmented reality platform, announced on their blog the launch of the Layer Player. The Layar Player is a unique piece of code that can be embedded directly within your own iPhone app. Yes, seems it only is available for iPhone apps. Nice thing is there...

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  • We all saw the report yesterday that windows phone 7 sales on release day were not that great. around 45,000 of not that great.  But it does not really matter. When I was looking at the phone I was not too impressed.  And in fact amused that it still, 30...

    Low sales of the Windows Phone 7 does not mean much

    Posted on November 10, 2010 | 2 Comments
    We all saw the report yesterday that windows phone 7 sales on release day were not that great. around 45,000 of not that great.  But it does not really matter. When I was looking at the phone I was not too impressed.  And in fact amused that it still, 30...

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  • The Kin was DOA for almost everyone who reviewed it.  It was basically a low feature, low capability smart phone that was not that smart, nor much of a phone, and yet still had the same cost of a phone. You HAVE to imagine that even the brain dead at...

    MicroSoft Kin is dead to no surprise, not even MS

    Posted on June 30, 2010 | 1 Comment
    The Kin was DOA for almost everyone who reviewed it.  It was basically a low feature, low capability smart phone that was not that smart, nor much of a phone, and yet still had the same cost of a phone. You HAVE to imagine that even the brain dead at...

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  • Its kind of a shame really.  Although once I read the specs and saw the mock ups, I know this would not fly, but it would have been interesting just to see.  The idea of a two screen slate is intriguing to say the least. But Microsoft finally owned up...

    MS Slate Courier is dead. First major victom in the Great Tablet War

    Posted on April 29, 2010 | 1 Comment
    Its kind of a shame really.  Although once I read the specs and saw the mock ups, I know this would not fly, but it would have been interesting just to see.  The idea of a two screen slate is intriguing to say the least. But Microsoft finally owned up...

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