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Monday, 2 July 2007
Intel plans to unveil superchip
The engine for galactic simulations on mobile devices using speech recognition and self health autononic diagnostics.
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Sunday, 27 May 2007
A reason sense of touch is at hand.
The Novint Falcon haptics technology sounds ready for the market.
This video clip gives a good overview.
This video clip gives a good overview.
Tuesday, 22 May 2007
A book suggestion
Due to a recent incident which upset my son in his music class, I set out to reconfirm notes I had taken from John Sloboda. John Sloboda is one of the world' leading music psychologists. Little did I know this when I attended his lecture 2003. Still to this day, this lecture and the research astound and resound with me, especially my notes about the connection between music: emotion, performance, intrinsic and extrinsic motivators within the player. Soon afterwards he started http://www.iraqbodycount.org/
Today while searching, I discovered at http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/ where he is the Executive Director. It was Brian Eno's words which motivated me to write you about this book, as I've great repect for him and his understanding of the future.
Chris Abbott, Paul Rogers and John Sloboda, April 2007 (Rider)
"This incisive study is radical in the proper sense." Archbishop Desmond Tutu
"Outstanding… it will change the way you look at the world." Dame Anita Roddick
"The single most important contribution to understanding and coping with the future that I have ever read." Brian Eno
"Powerful and well-presented." George Monbiot
Kind regards,
Kevin
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Kevin Russell
Thursday, 29 March 2007
My 2002 Epiphany
Are we better entertained and educated within the current media convergence of ITC in our homes, schools, museums and at work or just more distanced and distracted from the world? The march of the techmemes which renders, instantaneously transmits and receive signals of orgasmically surreal fidelity is truly amazing (HDTV, DVDs, CD, computers, PDA, mobile phones, game box, etc...)., but the most complete documented evidence on collaborative social interaction in "Bowling Alone" indicates Social capital in declined for many years. Although smart mobs and social networking software appears to be shifting that, increased amounts of time are spent alone with our technology instead of with our fellows humans and in the physical world. Why?
Since 1991, and till this day, after many visits to various science museums and planetariums (on both sides of the Atlantic) with my young son, I continued to see huge problems with how we render and connect people to information and providing important context markers. Of particular issue, is that of positioning the users contextual links within and between space and time. Thus. mashed time and space and place can cause cognitive dissonance. I am amazed at how little innovation has taken place here.
Converging art and science music, math, and geo spatial areas offers much fertile ground for active engagement. The open source movement, supplies our needs to share with, teach to, and learn from the connections with each other in whole new ways. It is leading to exciting OpenGIS work specifically, which is already changing how relate to our world and planet, both in construct and content. Add to that kids prefer PDA's to laptops and the fact that much video game play is mostly an exciting 'context', with little valuable 'content' ; great at teaching how to blow up things up (if not yourself), but bad at delivering an entertaining enriching life skills experience and you start to get a glimpse of my passion. "With all that 3D graphics and audio processing power" I thought," we have to do better!
Since 1991, and till this day, after many visits to various science museums and planetariums (on both sides of the Atlantic) with my young son, I continued to see huge problems with how we render and connect people to information and providing important context markers. Of particular issue, is that of positioning the users contextual links within and between space and time. Thus. mashed time and space and place can cause cognitive dissonance. I am amazed at how little innovation has taken place here.
Converging art and science music, math, and geo spatial areas offers much fertile ground for active engagement. The open source movement, supplies our needs to share with, teach to, and learn from the connections with each other in whole new ways. It is leading to exciting OpenGIS work specifically, which is already changing how relate to our world and planet, both in construct and content. Add to that kids prefer PDA's to laptops and the fact that much video game play is mostly an exciting 'context', with little valuable 'content' ; great at teaching how to blow up things up (if not yourself), but bad at delivering an entertaining enriching life skills experience and you start to get a glimpse of my passion. "With all that 3D graphics and audio processing power" I thought," we have to do better!
Friday, 16 February 2007
Intel plans to unveil superchip
The rockbooster for galactic simulations on mobile devices using speech recognition and self health diagnostics.
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Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Wired News: Today's Homework: Make Good Games
Wired News: Today's Homework: Make Good Games
I could'nt agree more. Location based mobile simulation games with geometry, music, and astronomy will inspire students.
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Sunday, 4 February 2007
Flight Sim Genre redux?
Today's flight simmiest video: Vulcan - BlackBuck raid test in Falkland/Malvinas flight sim - Joystiq
It is great to see this and it supports my project to produce a new class of space flight simulations. After four years of work, these non combat, user generated and social networking sims, go further than the stand alone space flight sims.
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It is great to see this and it supports my project to produce a new class of space flight simulations. After four years of work, these non combat, user generated and social networking sims, go further than the stand alone space flight sims.
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Friday, 5 January 2007
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