Emerging Technologies
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AlphaWolf
by Bill Tomlinson , MIT Media Lab Excellent multiplayer simulation in which users bark wolf sounds into microphones to control on-screen, semi-intelligent characters. |
Image: Bill Tomlinson
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Origami Desk
by Wendy Ju, MIT Media Lab Nice installation and execution, using real origami paper with thin RF tags and projection onto the translucent desk surface from below. |
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Micro Archiving
by Tatsuya Saito, Keio University A microscopic 3D-scanning technology, with which insects have been modeled, complete with surface texture and color. |
 Image: Tatsuya Saito
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RobotPHONE: RUI for Interpersonal Communication
by Dairoku Sekiguchi, The University of Tokyo Robots tethered via Internet -- move one, the other moves the same. |
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Informative Art
by Tobias Skog, PLAY Interactive Institute One of many interesting installations on the above linked page is a projection onto a curtain showing a Mondrian-style artwork. The position and coloring of the elements is drawn from real-time weather information for various cities around the world. |
Image: Tobias Skog
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Enhanced Desk
by Yoichi Sato, Univ. of Tokyo uses video cameras for tracking, and for display, a front projection, rear projection, and plasma monitor. In the top photo, an image can be dragged from a printed source to the enhanced desktop. Below, objects on the desktop are followed by a projected "spotlight." |
Image: Yoichi Sato
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Riding the Net
by Christa Sommerer, ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories, Kyoto Say a word into a microphone, and speech recognition technology is used to transform the word into a keyword to search for images on the web. Images matching your word appear on-screen, swirling and overlapping. A dual-user system was presented, with input from two users displayed on a single projected image. |
Image: Christa Sommerer
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Excerpts From Experiments in the Future of Reading
by Dale MacDonald, RED-Xerox PARC Various installations originally at the San Jose Tech Museum. The most interesting one was this --> table with projection from top, which, when tilted, pans across information. |
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