[From The Huffington Post, where the post includes additional images and a 6:44 minute video] ‘Hunger In Los Angeles’: Virtual Reality Makes Journalism Immersive, Pixelated Lucas Kavner lucas.kavner@huffingtonpost.com 01/30/2012 Imagine you’re at a food bank outside the First Unitarian Church in Los Angeles. It’s a clear and hot Saturday in August. Dozens of hungry people are lining up. The woman who runs the food bank is overwhelmed. She yells people’s numbers quickly. “There are too many people,” one woman complains, as she stands in line, her arms crossed. Others wait patiently, but the mood is tense. Then someone in line…

[From PSFK] Watch TV On The Go With See-Through Video Glasses By Emma Hutchings on January 19, 2012 A few years ago, PSFK wrote about an emerging technology from Israeli company Lumus. Now, they’ve released a new pair of glasses that lets the wearer view video content from the internet, movies and TV with their large, high-resolution virtual screen. The eyewear is see-through, providing simultaneous connectivity to what you want to watch and your surroundings. The glasses project an 87-inch screen about 10 feet in front of the wearer that can only be viewed by them, passers-by will just see…

[From The New York Times’ Bits blog] IMAX Chief Envisions the Future of 3-D in Theaters By Nick Bolton January 25, 2012 DAVOS, Switzerland — For the IMAX Corporation, the future is brighter, larger and in 3-D. The company is developing prototypes of new laser technologies that will allow for drastically larger and brighter screens by 2013. “We have purchased the rights to parts of 10,000 patents from Kodak that will throw much more light on screens than you see today,” said Richard L. Gelfond, IMAX’s chief executive, in an interview at Documented@Davos, an event held by Scribd and Mashable.…

[A press release from Virtalis] Virtalis Supplies Advanced Visualisation for Nuclear AMRC Virtalis has designed and installed two Virtual Reality (VR) systems for the new Nuclear AMRC at Sheffield. The Nuclear AMRC was set up to support the nuclear supply chain for the new generation of nuclear reactors. It aims to put UK industry at the forefront of nuclear technology, both nationally and internationally. Rab Scott, Head of Virtual Reality and Simulation at the Nuclear AMRC, explained: “The visualisation capability Virtalis has delivered will make our technology more accessible than ever before. This is because what makes the nuclear sector…

[From ExtremeTech; more information is available from Taylor Veltrop’s web site] Remotely pat your pet with Kinect and a Wiimote By Sebastian Anthony on January 3, 2012 Taylor Veltrop, an enterprising roboticist with a fondness for felines, has crafted the mother of all Kinect (and Wiimote!) hacks: The teleoperation of a robot to groom a cat. As always with these hacks, you should […] watch the [4:25] video, then come back […] to find out how it works.…

[From io9] Robot and Frank is the next great science fiction indie By Jordan Hoffman Jan 23, 2012 In the movies, technology is usually represented one of two ways: a hallelujah-worthy miracle or a soul-deadening trespass on the natural order of things. Robot and Frank, a film receiving near-unanimous praise at the Sundance Film Festival, is smart enough to know better. Technology, like everything in life, isn’t black and white, and is only as good or bad as the people who interact with it. Okay, so here’s the pitch: Frank Langella and a robot crack safes. You’d be forgiven for…