Techno Babble

Here is a Complete list of Emerging Technologies shown at Siggraph 2006.

A Preview Moview (Quicktime) of the Emerging Technologies is available from HERE

Full details of these topics are available on the Siggraph Website and a summary is presented here. (This is a long post so be sure to read the complete article). Some of the items described here will be posted as separate articles.

AR Tennis - A collaborative augmented-reality game for cellphones. On their cellphones, two players see a virtual tennis court overlaid on the real table between them. They move their phones to hit virtual balls across the net.

The Interactive Theatre - Recipient of le Prix Emerging Technologies at Laval Virtual 2006 and presented as part of the exchange agreement between Laval Virtual and ACM SIGGRAPH. The argoGroup theatre combines group navigation, social experience, and significant individual interaction. At SIGGRAPH 2006, the theatre presents a program of artistic, educational, and entertaining interactive shows in stereoscopy (3D).

Augumented Painting - An interactive tabletop augmented-reality setup that creates an artistic representation of the scene. Users can select a painterly, cartoon-like, or black-and-white illustrative style. Virtual objects are added and displayed in the same artistic style.

bubble cosmos - A system that produces real bubbles containing white smoke and projects CG images onto them. When users break the bubbles, they produce changes in the visual stimulus and sound effects.

Copycat Hand - A humanoid robot hand that imitates the motions of a human hand at 150fps or faster.

Cubee: Thinking inside the box - An interactive cubic fish tank VR display that is suspended to enable viewing from all sides and free manipulation. The compelling interaction metaphor of objects inside a box can be used to evaluate interactive realism in dynamic simulations.

Deskrama - An interactive space browser for architectural designs. Moving its lightweight LCD panel on a building’s plan drawing displays a 3D interior view of the building.
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One Year Old Today.

Today is the first anniversary of this Blog – started exactly 1 year ago today.

In the past year, more than 150 articles have been written covering a diverse range of topics from interesting “gadgets” through to the more in-depth looks at what has been happening in the competitive world of 3D Cad.

This article discusses some of what has been noticed over the last year…

Some random thoughts – Trends in man-machine interaction

I recently came across an article entitled 3D Modelling is not for WIMPs – a brilliant title referring, of course, to Window Icon Menu Pointer in regards to how users interact with computer applications.

Then I was reading an article “PAD Paper Aided Design” about the design process how it is easy to sketch out your design on a scrap of paper before committing it into a CAD system.

And it got me to thinking some more about UI aspects for CAD software.

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