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Month: July 2011

  • Boston TV coverage of July 4th fireworks presents altered reality

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    [From Mediaite] Production Company Caught Faking Fourth of July Firework Footage In Boston For CBS Special by Jon Bershad | July 8th, 2011 This holiday weekend, anyone who was watching CBS in Boston got to see some amazing shots of fireworks. In fact, the footage was way more impressive than those on other networks as it featured incredible glimpses of the fireworks going off right behind such landmarks as Fenway stadium and the state house. However, some eagle-eyed, geography-knowledgable viewers began to notice something was amiss. The fireworks were shot off from a barge and for CBS to have gotten…

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  • Call: Experiencing Stories with Digital Games (Colloquium at Concordia U.)

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    Call for Papers and Projects by Graduate Students: Récit(s) et jeux numériques / Experiencing Stories with Digital Games A colloquium presented by the Concordia Research Centre for Technoculture, Art and Games at Entretiens Jacques Cartier 2011 October 1 & 2, 2011 Concordia University, Montreal About the Colloquium Despite recent advances in game hardware, interfaces and game mechanics, the most successful video games continue to emerge from a fundamental concern with telling and experiencing stories. This colloquium will bring together academic game researchers, industry designers and students to discuss new approaches to the analysis and creation of interactive digital narratives. By…

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  • ‘Virtual Assistant’ technology makes retail debut at Duane Reade

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    [From Chain Store Age; more information follows below] ‘Virtual Assistant’ technology makes retail debut at Duane Reade July 5, 2011 | By Marianne Wilson New York City — Next-generation digital signage that uses the latest in holographic imaging and audio-visual technology to create the illusion of a real person is making its U.S. debut at Duane Reade’s new flagship in downtown Manhattan. The technology, the Tensator Virtual Assistant, is provided by Lawrence, a Tensator Group Co. Completely customized for Duane Reade, it takes the form of a female greeter who welcomes entering customers and provides information on everything store-related. Currently,…

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  • Job: Professor/Associate Professor in game technology at Gjøvik University College (Norway)

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    Professor/Associate Professor in game technology at Gjøvik University College (Norway) The Media Technology Laboratory, the Faculty of Computer Science and Media Technology, has an opening for a research and teaching position in game development as Professor/Associate professor in Game Technology. We seek candidates with Industry related experience and a PhD degree in a related field to join our expanding game technology group. The position has responsibility for curriculum development, self directed research, teaching, supervision, raising funds for research projects, and networking and collaboration with industry, public institutions and other universities and research environments. Applicants will have backgrounds in the areas…

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  • Word cloud visualization of ISPR Presence News and Presence-L post titles

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    Word cloud visualization of ISPR Presence News and Presence-L post titles To provide a visual summary of what readers can find in ISPR Presence News items, we’ve used IBM’s Many Eyes software to create a word cloud based on the titles of the nearly 3,500 announcement posts on the Presence-L listserv from July 1999 to January 2010 and ISPR Presence News from January 2010 to July 1, 2011. The full-sized version of the word cloud can be found here; the list of titles used to generate the visualization are here (note that “Presence-related,” “News,” and “Call” were removed for the cloud).…

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  • Ultra realistic dental training robot – Showa Hanako 2

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    [From DigInfo TV, where the story features a 4:21 minute video and a collection of images] Ultra Realistic Dental Training Robot – Showa Hanako 2 30 June 2011 Showa University has announced Showa Hanako 2, a robot dental patient fabricated by robot maker Tmsuk. Compared with its predecessor Showa Hanako 1, this robot is designed to be more realistic, functional, and easier to use. Showa Hanako 2 will actually be sold by the dental supply company The Yoshida Dental Manufacturing. The main features of the new robot are a silicone skin and mouth lining by Orient Industry, a maker of…

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  • ISPR News: Your reactions to Presence News items

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    Your reactions to Presence News items ISPR Presence News has been limited to one-way communication about telepresence, but we want to know what you think about the diverse topics and ideas presented in our posts. So we’ve expanded the ISPR web site to  to include your comments on Presence News posts. You can add your reactions – ideas for studying phenomena, suggestions for expanding theories, predictions about future developments, references to relevant publications and other resources, reports about conference experiences, and anything else that could be of interest to the presence community –  at the bottom of any post on the site…

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  • Job: Postdoc/PhD positions in multisensory perception and haptic interaction at Bielefeld University, Germany

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    Postdoc/PhD positions available in the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Bielefeld University, Germany The Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Bielefeld University, Germany is inviting applications for a research position (postdoc/phd) on multisensory perception and haptic interaction. The position will be embedded in a highly interdisciplinary, international research group lead by Prof. Marc Ernst, who is just starting to set up a new group in Bielefeld. The focus of the department is on multisensory perception, perception and action, perceptual learning and human-computer interaction. For their experimental work the group is predominantly relying on behavioral methods from psychophysics and experimental psychology. For this there…

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  • Gaming technology helping UK forces prepare for Afghanistan

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    [From Defence Professionals] [Image: A soldier trains in a simulator cab at the Combined Arms Tactical Trainer. (Photo: Lockheed Martin)] Gaming technology helping UK forces prepare for Afghanistan July 5, 2011 A huge virtual reality training facility in Sennelager, Germany, which uses the latest 3D gaming technology, is helping British forces, from individuals to entire battle groups, prepare for operations in southern Afghanistan. Two years ago, PlayStation-style war games helped soldiers of 5th Battalion The Rifles (5 RIFLES) get ready for their tour of Iraq. Before departing for theatre, troops spent hours in simulators and replica operations rooms at the…

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  • Call: Virtual Futures conference materials (summaries, videos and podcasts) available online

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    For those who missed the VIRTUAL FUTURES conference presentation summaries, videos and podcasts are now available online here: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/knowledge/themes/virtualfutures/ VIRTUAL FUTURES, a Cyber Conference on Art, Performance, Philosophy and Emerging Technology, returned to the University of Warwick on the 18-19 June 2011 after 15 years. This year’s highlights included presentations on artificial intelligence, bioengineering, bioethics, cybernetics, net security, performance art, social media, the future of copyright and virtual reality.…

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  • Wimbledon in 3D evokes telepresence, at least for some

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    [From The Los Angeles Daily News; other reviews can be found in The Daily Mail, informitv and Which?] [Image: An audience member leaves the Los Angeles theatre as 3D replays (a bit blurry without the proper glasses) are shown from Petra Kvitova’s rather quick 6-3, 6-4 win over Maria Sharapova in this morning’s Wimbledon women’s singles final. (Photo by Tom Hoffarth)]  HOFFARTH: In 3D, Wimbledon (and Sharapova) is much sharper By Tom Hoffarth, Staff Writer Posted: 07/02/2011 Updated: 07/03/2011 [snip] This was a history-making moment in the 125th edition of Wimbledon. A live 3D feed was available in nearly 200…

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  • Call: AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 in honour of Alan Turing

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    CALL for PROPOSALS for SYMPOSIA AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 in honour of Alan Turing July 2nd to 6th, 2012 University of Birmingham http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12/ Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) [ http://www.aisb.org.uk/ ] and the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) [ http://www.ia-cap.org/ ] AISB and IACAP are delighted to be joining forces to run the above Congress in 2012. The Congress serves both as the year’s AISB Convention and the year’s IACAP conference. The Congress has been inspired by a desire to honour Alan Turing and by the broad and deep significance of…

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