WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

Expertly-piloted micro drone records breathtaking HD video of Japanese high school girls【Video】

soranews24.com · April 30, 2018

Watch this tiny camera effortlessly zip around school like an inquisitive bee.

Footage taken by camera-equipped drones can be absolutely spectacular, providing refreshing visual perspectives of gorgeously-captured scenery.

With loads of practice flying the little things, YouTube channel Katsu FPVshows viewers just how stunning drone filming can be by recording a group of high school girls in the confined spaces of a school building.

▼ Get ready for a unique viewing experience.

OH, FOR THE MONEY!!!!

They finished it! Looks like they're aiming the price at expensive offices and hotel lobbies unfortunately. Jab

Sisyphus: the Hypnotizing Kickstarter-Funded Kinetic Sand Drawing Machine is Now Available to The Public

thisiscolossal.com · April 30, 2018



Art Design

#furniture #kinetic sculpture #sand

April 30, 2018

Laura Staugaitis

Sisyphus, the wildly successful Kickstarter-funded kinetic table designed by Bruce Shapiro (previously), is now available to the public via pre-order. The 2016 project raised $1,924,018 and is, to date, the most-funded campaign in the history of Kickstarter’s art category. The coffee table design includes a bed of sand with a magnetic steel marble that continuously traces programmed patterns through the malleable material. Many of the original designs are meditative mandala-like configurations, but it’s also possible to program the marble to create continuous line drawings or custom messages.

Sisyphus started taking pre-orders this weekend via their website. The table is available in two styles (coffee table or end table) and a variety of metallic and wood finishes. You can also follow the brand’s progress on Facebook and Instagram.

CONFIRMATION!

Some proper confirmation and with stats far above those predicted. If this does happen it will solve our problem of clunky VR equipment and allow proper development of our AR/VR stuff. 

The specs here and with Project North Star are looking good. Jab

Report: Apple's Rumored Headset Will Run Both AR, VR Technology

appadvice.com · by Brent Dirks · April 27, 2018

The report says that the device could hit the market in 2020:

The company is working on a headset capable of running both AR and VR technology, according to a person familiar with Apple’s plans. Plans so far call for an 8K display for each eye — higher resolution than today’s best TVs — that would be untethered from a computer or smartphone, the person said.

Interestingly, while previous rumors indicated that the headset would be somehow tied to an iPhone, CNET says Apple has different plans using wireless technology:

Apple’s headset would connect to a dedicated box using a high-speed, short-range wireless technology, according to a person familiar with the company’s plans. The box, which would be powered by a custom Apple processor more powerful than anything currently available, would act as the brain for the AR/VR headset. In its current state, the box resembles a PC tower, but it won’t be an actual Mac computer.

And unlike with the HTC Vive, users wouldn’t have to install special cameras in a room to detect their location. Everything would be built into Apple’s headset and box, the person said.

Apple’s Tim Cook has long been a proponent of AR technology, this is the first mention we’ve heard that the headset could also offer VR. While augmented reality places other objects into a normal field of view, like the hit game Pokemon Go, virtual reality provides a completely computer-generated landscape.

ABOUT TIME

I wish Apple would give an alternative to 'HEY' when using using remotely. Jab

Alexa to reward kids who say: 'Please'

BBC · April 25, 2018

Amazon

Amazon has released coloured versions of its Echo Dot speaker to accompany the new features

Amazon's smart assistant Alexa can now be made to encourage children to say: "Please," and: "Thank you," when issuing it voice commands.

LANDSCAPES

Following on from the character examples, here are some landscapes. These are mostly computer generated and with the last two an A.I. has copied the style of a famous artist. With a little work these places can be explored in AR/VR or normal apps. JAB

CHARACTERS

Just a brief example of how much detail my human rendering programs are spewing out these days. All these characters are fully adjustable (in fact all the ladies are the same basic model with texture and features dialled differently).

With a small bit of work I can have characters as realistic as this working real time in Unity, even interacting with people as they pass.

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After seeing the Black Panther promo shots...

Walter Matthau riff...

The Crazy ones..

Facial muscle testing....

HTTPS CERTS - COMMUNICATING IDEAS

Your server, my servers and the K-server set up is now recognised fully https with secure certificates. This is boring stuff but what it means for us is that I may finally be able to use 'Over the Air' delivery for iOS apps I make. Not thinking of this as a way of delivering to all the ipads of a school but more as a way of communicating our new idea to Charlie and other people we consider V.I.P.s. They would simply receive a link, click it and the newest game, idea, app or curio would automatically install on their personal devices. It would be nice way to keep Charlie up to date on games and AR stuff without my long waffly emails. You too.

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AUTO COLOURING

This site uses an AI to convincingly colour in a sketch or line drawing. Machine learning continues to achieve things that were impossible just a few years ago. Jab

AUTO COLOUR

MOONIE!

Watch fullscreen and highest resolution on Youtube. Jab

PROJECT NORTH STAR

These are the guys that made the laser tech I played with to detect fingers. Will keep an eye on this. Jab

Unveiling Project North Star

LINK TO BLOG

Leap Motion is a company that has always been focused on human-computer interfaces.

We believe that the fundamental limit in technology is not its size or its cost or its speed, but how we interact with it. These interactions define what we create, how we learn, how we communicate with each other. It would be no stretch of the imagination to say that the way we interact with the world around us is perhaps the very fabric of the human experience.

PROCEDURALLY GENERATED INFINITE CITY

Great little demo of an infinite city made from a single random seed. Similar method to the pseudo-random generated shapes demo I made in Unity or the entire world of Minecraft. Jab

INFINITOWN

This WebGL experiment is an attempt to create a procedural city that feels alive and is fun to watch.

First, we generate a finite grid of random city blocks. Then, using some tricks, the viewpoint wraps around this grid, which creates the illusion of an endless cityscape.

Made with: Three.js, Blender, Unity. 
Models by SimplePoly.

3D FROM iPHONE PHOTOS

I'm continuing to push readily available technology and the iPhone 8 is still allowing me to innovate. 

Using a single iPhone photo I was able to extract the extra info taken with the newer upgrades and use it to create a rough 3D image from a single show. 

Here you can see the original image taken by the Suzie, a depth map extracted from the info and a reconstructed 3D model in photoshop. If I had time I could make an app that does this automatically.

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