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November 15, 2008  4:21 PM

g-speak: Oblong brings the “Minority Report” operating system to science reality



Posted by: GuyPardon
buzz, cool, creativity, culture, data, demonstration, display, entrepeneurship, fun, futurism, geek, immersive 3D worlds, innovation, interactive media, interesting, interface, Internet, invention, media, multimedia, operating systems, science, Technology, tool, video, virtual, virtual reality

William Gibson noted recently that the cyberpunk fiction he'd been writing over the past quarter century has now become science fact. Pattern Recognition and Spook Country are both set in near-futures with technology and social norms that...

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June 27, 2008  8:42 AM

Have you got your avatar yet? Gartner says you will.



Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
business, culture, futurism, gaming, immersive 3D worlds, interactive media, multimedia, new media, participation, predictions, social networking, virtual reality, virtual worlds, Web 2.0

lara-croft.jpgIt's 2008. Do you know where your avatar...

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April 23, 2008  8:46 AM

Video: Exploring presence technology with tele-immersive dance in cyberspace



Posted by: GuyPardon
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Often the title of a video alone raises an eyebrow. Today's video selection certainly does -- it's a presentation from two tele-immersion labs, one at UC Berkeley's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the...

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May 30, 2007  3:43 PM

A very sophisticated CAVEman



Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
nanotech, science, virtual reality

Scientists at the University of Calgary have created what they're calling a 4-D human atlas, dubbed CAVEman for the virtual reality room he resides in, AKA the "research holodeck." CAVEman is an model of a human body consisting of over...

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