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Multimedia Applications Of SixthSense Technology
Posted by Malin De Silva on May 23, 2010 | 4 Comments
Sixthsense is a technology that can be used to take the real world objects in to digital world with a minimum effort and a higher accuracy. Parnav Mistry, an Indian research assistant in MIT Media Lab has come up with number of applications made through this SixthSense Technology. Among them, SixthSense Camera, a pen that can draw in 3D, a physical Google map, a camera that can make any surface an application controlling interface were some of the most attractive innovations came out through this technology. People are very much excited with this technology as it takes them to a dream world. It is said that that this technology will be an Open source technology. Therefore the usability of this technology will be high as well....

Redress Remix - new participatory doc project from Stitch Media

Redress Remix is a unique project comprised of a 3 part documentary series and interactive living documentary.

Redress Remix tackles one of the most controversial Canadian government decisions of our time: the official 2006 apology to the Chinese Canadian community for the Head Tax and Exclusion Act of 1923.

The documentary film uses a unique approach that includes animation techniques, newly composed music and testimonial interviews, to reveal to audiences the events that shaped the Redress movement and led to the official Government apology and its influence on a new generation of Chinese Canadians.

The interactive web project, developed in conjunction with the film, allows Canadians to contribute to the national dialogue on the issue through a ground-breaking 'living documentary' experience.

The documentary is produced by Victoria Ha for Stitch Media and Executive produced by David Smith of S & S Productions with support from OMNI Television and the participation of CHRP Canada. The interactive site is produced by Evan Jones for Stitch Media Inc. in association with the Bell New Media Fund and OMNI's Independent Producers Initiative.

Project Natal Xbox 360 sensor controls game through body motion & voice

Project Natal is a research project carried out by Microsoft to develop digital input device mainly for their product Xbox. The specialty in project natal is it’s not an ordinary input device which you have to press buttons and swing joy sticks. Using the Natal sensor you can control the game which you are playing without having any physical contact with the controller. It detects your body motions and voice to control the applications....

The Gorillaz Augmented Reality Campaign | Augmented Planet

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With most augmented reality campaigns you either find out they running too late, or they take place in another country so you don’t get the opportunity to rush out and buy the cereal box. If you are in the UK, I recommend you get yourself down to the local newsagents and pick up a copy of the latest edition of NME (12/5/10).

The Gorillaz new album, Plastic Beach is out and to launch the album as well as promote the forth coming ‘Escape to the Plastic Beach’ tour with some fanfare, a rather tasty augmented reality campaign has been created.

The latest edition of NME comes complete with an A5 sized passport which contains a short manga style story,  a competition to win exclusive Gorillaz content, tickets, signed merchandise, and a free download of a Gorillaz track. Buried inside the passport (which has been put together really well by the way) is an augmented reality marker which you can either use with your iPhone courtesy of the Plastic Beach iPhone application, or with your webcam.

On the iPhone, as well as news about the band and the ability to buy tickets, when you snap the AR marker you’re presented with the 3D plastic beach that you can move around with your fingers. If you hold the passport up to the webcam then you get the same beach which you can navigate by adjusting the marker.

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To keep users engaged with the campaign and coming back for more, the augmented reality content will change on a regular basis. Holding up the passport to your webcam or iPhone next week will give you different 3D content.

As a marketing tool this campaign has been thought-out and put together really well.  It not a campaign that uses augmented reality just for the sake of it, it genuinely adds some value and fits in with the printed passport theme very nicely. I hope we see more of these carefully crafted campaigns in the future.

In the meantime, if you’re a Gorillaz fan it goes without saying that you should get hold of a copy of NME and experience the world of augmented reality (for the first time) for yourself. UK augmented reality fans should get hold of a copy of NME to give the campaign a go. If your in distant parts of the world, you can still print a marker from gorillaz.com/passport and try the campaign for yourself.

Just as I was typing, the Gorillaz advert came on tv, so here it is for your viewing pleasure.

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