What strikes me about this is that it seems to bring a different kind of 3-D to the table than the stereoscopic or simple rendered kind. The drawback, of course, is that you only have one person who can experience this at a time, but if you have somebody sitting in front of a computer screen(which tends to be one person watching the monitor, or playing a one-player video game), then it's not an issue.
Showing posts with label computer science. Show all posts
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Saturday, June 25, 2011
What I'd be interested to see here is whether this video posts properly from blogger
Here's the thing I notice here: look how much time is spent distracting you from actually directly interacting with him. You might have some nice little AI tricks regarding him noticing or taking interests with things you do, but you only get real interaction after having been narratively tunnelled into a certain conversation that has certain social expectations attached to it
But I do have to say it's a neat trick. But is it going to seem all that neat as others develop this kind of interaction more extensively?
Thursday, October 01, 2009
Science and Technology Links for this Week (9/28/09)
Popular Science-
Hands On: Fulifilm Real 3D W1 Digital Camera
The Power Loader Is Real - For those wanting to confront Alien Queens, there is no substitute.
Unexpectedly, Cosmic Ray Intensity in Space Reaches Highest Level in 50 Years
"Time Telescopes" Could Make Data Transfer 27 Times Faster
ISS Could Get its Own Electron-Beam Fabrication 3-D Printer
Plutonium Shortage Threatens Future Deep Space Missions
Video: MIT Scientist Explains How OLEDs Work, Using a Glowing Pickle
Popular Mechanics-
Robotic Surgeons Take Over at a Hospital Near You
Is Qualcomm's Mirasol the Future of Low-Power Displays?
Explosion Savages Massive Sugar Mill: What Went Wrong
How Halo ODST Creators Built a Blockbuster Game in 14 Months
Students Build the Solar Homes of the Future
Discover Magazine-
Major Earthquakes Can Weaken Faults Across the Globe
Electric Fish Powers Down To Save Energy
A Silver Lining: Economic Bust Is a Health Boom
South Pacific Tsunami Kills More Than 100 People
Space Probe Soon to Study Mercury's Comet-Like "Tail"
Study: Strange Planet Has Atmosphere of Gaseous Rock-and It Rains Pebbles
For Proteins, Evolution Is a One-Way Street
Did a Throat Infection Take Down Sue, the Famous T. Rex?
Scientific American-
What (Maybe) Didn't Kill the Dinosaurs: Comets
Gaming Tech Aids Scientists Building Virtual Synthetic Chromatophore
The problem with psychopaths: a fearful face doesn't deter them
The Effect of Our Surroundings on Body Weight
Technology Review
A Material to Chill "Dirty" Fuel Cells
Can the Wireless Internet Be Neutral?
Nanosensing Transistors Controlled by Stress
The Mystery of the Runaway Star
When Universes Collide, How Would We Know?
Ars Technica-
NVIDIA's Fermi takes direct aim at supercomputing, Intel
Datacenter energy costs outpacing hardware prices
ICANN cuts cord to US government, gets broader oversight
Carbon nanotubes may power ultracapacitor car
Turning the tide: a hands-on look at Google's Wave
Editorial: "Network neutrality" or "network neutering"?
Virtual composer makes beautiful music-and stirs controversy
Holographic storage, phase-change memory coming soon
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