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Here’s a video just for you guys of me trying out my new bebionic hand! What do you think?!?

Minecraft Hololens Demo

Microsoft demonstrated how their Hololens augmented reality headset system could work with Minecraft real-time gameplay - video embedded below from kotakucom:

Minecraft is a game we’ve seen countless times before. And yet! The virtual reality demo showcased by Microsoft today makes the game almost seem brand new.

You can start a new world on any surface you’d like—as you can see in the GIF above. Magical.

… The amazing stuff starts at the 2:25 mark

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vvvv is a hybrid visual/textual live-programming environment for easy prototyping and development. It is designed to facilitate the handling of large media environments with physical interfaces, re

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You Can See Them, They Can’t See you

Wearing a VR Headset on the Plane

You can turn on a pass-through camera on the Gear VR by holding down the button on the side of the headset if you’d like to see out, and this leads to strange interactions. I had a conversation with my wife while she was taking this picture, and it caused a few people around me to pull a double-take. Once it becomes clear that you can see someone through the hardware, even though they can’t see your eyes, people don’t seem to know how to react. I was very aware of how small my personal space was on the plane, and I didn’t want to make anyone else uncomfortable. Looking around in that manner, and being in constant movement, could have made my seat mates uncomfortable or have made it harder for them to relax. I stuck to Oculus Cinema, a program that allows you to watch your own video files in a sort of empty movie theater.

the plane fell away completely. My slight claustrophobia left me immediately; my brain thought I was in a large, completely empty movie theater. I was able to lean back, fold my hands in my lap, and watch movies on a giant screen by myself. It was relaxing.

the experience of being in virtual reality in an environment I often find very stressful? It’s magical. The Gear VR is now a mandatory piece of equipment for me when I travel.

[By Ben Kuchera, Polygon]

Asinas - Jennifer Townley - 2015

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Contour & Shape

Monochrome music video by Denial Of Service explores the glitch visuals using scans taken with a Microsoft Kinect - video embedded below:

all shots (of myself & surroundings) were achieved entirely on the MS Kinect v1. PC & Z data were captured & manipulated with Brekel, Processing and Meshlab. sequences were rendered in 3DSMax with Krakatoa & Vray / After Effects with Trapcode Form. datamoshing & further glitch was mostly accomplished with ruby code & processing.

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These are 3-D printed sculptures designed to animate when spun under a strobe light. The placement of the appendages is determined by the same method nature uses in pinecones and sunflowers. The rotation speed is synchronized to the strobe so that one flash occurs every time the sculpture turns 137.5º—the golden angle. If you count the number of spirals on any of these sculptures you will find that they are always Fibonacci numbers. [video]

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Cyberpunk Eyes

University of Washington researchers have figured out how to implant semitransparent red and blue LED lights in contact lenses, for the purpose of receiving and displaying data in sharp visual images and video. This means wearers will literally be able to watch TV or view photos that are projected directly onto their eyeballs.