My friend Jason Fletcher at the Full Dome Blog just posted a ridiculously comprehensive round up of all the 360º camera systems out (and even a few that almost launched). I spent some time with the Ricoh Theta and Kodak PixPro this summer and both have already been updated with increased resolution and FOV. It’s […]
This week Techcrunch waxes on the use of AI to replace UI to allow us to avoid having to navigate through messy screens, menus and buttons and simply use SMS messaging, voice command, gestures or direct brain interfaces to control our digital lives.
As I predicted back in April, Lytro has just announced their new Light Field VR camera system, the “Immerge“. RoadtoVR Blog has the details HERE Thanks to a healthy $50M investment, Lytro have now developed a full end-to-end suite of systems, services and hardware, fuelled by VR’s recent revival. Immerge is the name of the solution […]
There’s a whole slew of so-called “VR cameras” being announced every week now. For the most part these camera systems are really 360º camera systems which means that even though you can look all around you, your perspective is fixed to wherever the camera was placed in the scene. For a fully compelling immersive experience […]
I was lucky to be on the East Coast for Theo Janssen’s first American exhibition of his amazing Standbeests at the Peabody Essex Museum. The Beests were as majestic as I thought they would be and the exhibit itself was wonderfully informative and inspiring.
Recently returned from my annual pilgrimage to the INST-INT conference at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis. INST-INT is a gathering of 300 installation artists from around the world. It brings together artists and production teams who are working a wide variety large scale public artworks. These folks are pushing the bounds of installation artwork not […]
Just made new business cards. Really happy with the results, but it took a lot of experimentation and prototyping to come to the final design. Read more below the fold if you are interested in learning more about my design iteration process…
I recently had a chance to play with the Lytro Illum, version 2 of Lytro’s light field technology implemented in a DSLR form factor. I’ve been wanting to play with an Illum since they were first announced and my friend Dallas Swindle graciously offered to let me take his Illum out for a week of […]
