[From The Conversation]

[Image: The courtroom in the County Court of Victoria as used for the study’s experiment. Credit: Emma Rowden]

Higher quality court videolinks will improve justice outcomes: study

Jul 03, 2013
Alexia Attwood
Editor, The Conversation

Poor lighting, bad camera angles and technical glitches in videolink testimonies can affect justice outcomes in court, a new study has found, with researchers urging courts to adopt standardised videoconferencing guidelines.… read more. “Study: Higher quality court videolinks will improve justice outcomes”

[From TechCrunch; for more information and a 1:58 minute video visit the Globacore project page]

Old Enough To Remember Paperboy For NES? Now You Can Live It With Oculus Rift

July 31, 2013

Old school gamers will remember Paperboy, an arcade game — later ported to home systems like the NES and Atari ST — that let you savour the pleasure of virtually breaking your neighbours’ windows by tossing a rolled up newspaper through their front room as you powered past on your bike. Because that’s what passed for entertainment in 1984. Well, time and technology has moved on but creative tech company Globacore, which builds these sort of gaming mash-up installations, has decided to do an updated version of the Paperboy concept, because, well, why not?

PaperDude VR — as it’s called its updated creation — has been hacked together using an actual bike, a Wahoo Fitness KickR indoor resistance bike trainer, an Oculus Rift virtual reality head-set, and Microsoft’s gesture-recognising Kinect peripheral as the key parts of the puzzle.… read more. “Nostalgic PaperDude VR is modern, immersive version of Paperboy game”