[From The Creators Project blog, where the post includes more images] Giant Billboards Paint a Discordant Portrait of Mongolian Desertification By Emerson Rosenthal — Jan 13 2015 A large-scale museum diorama popped up in the Mongolian plains, challenging the unending ebb and flow of history by making apparent the borders between the actual and the ideal. Created by Paris-based Korean photographer Daesung Lee, the giant billboard that anchors his Futuristic archaeology project is adorned with images of desertification in Mongolia—that is, the places where, due to environmental and human factors, the drying landscape is threatening centuries-old traditions. “Environmental changes directly…

[From Slashgear, where the story includes more pictures and a 2:48 minute video] Oculus Rift Crescent Bay hands-on with 3D Audio Chris Burns Jan 12, 2015 We entered the room Oculus VR had prepared for us not knowing exactly what we were in for. Not the Samsung Gear VR – surely not – that’s already nearly a consumer product. Instead, Oculus had a padded room ready for us. Not because the SlashGear team is ready for straight jackets, but because this demonstration required that we be in as quiet an environment as possible. This demonstration – of the newest Oculus…

[From Kill Screen, where the story includes more images and a video] Sci-fi film corridors re-purposed as a videogame maze by Chris Priestman January 05, 2015 Corridors are a significant architectural space in a lot of science fiction films. Perhaps you haven’t considered this before given the brevity of their screen time. And that’s largely due to the corridor’s purpose as an interstitial space that connects rooms, meaning they are usually walked or ran through, and not dwelled upon. One of the first lessons in filmmaking is to cut out any unnecessary footage when editing, and the example used is…

[From The Creators Project blog, where the post includes more images and a 0:58 minute video] Find Missing Masterpieces Inside the Museum of Stolen Art By Becky Chung — Jan 7 2015 You’re strolling through a gallery space and out of one corner of your eye, you spot a sculpture of a pastoral landscape painting. In the next room stands an abstract bronze sculpture. “For looted art go to your right, for art theft go to your left,” says an invisible woman who guides you through the exhibit. This is not an ordinary museum: it’s the home of artworks whose…

[From Tom’s Hardware, where the story includes more images and a 4:05 minute video] Feels Real: Hands And Eyes On HP’s Zvr Virtual Reality Display By Seth Colaner January 8, 2015 We’ve seen enough “new and exciting” tech over the years to know that PR and marketing hype has little to do with how good or bad a product turns out to be (especially when the press photos look abnormally amazing). As a result, we’re typically skeptical of any new products that look too good to be true on paper, and when we caught wind of HP’s Zvr “virtual reality”…

[From Entrepreneur; for more information see “Transforming the UI—Designing Tomorrow’s Interface Today (Part 2)” on Intel’s Developer Zone website] CES 2015 This App Will Make Your Next Virtual Meeting Awesome Emily Price, Technology Writer January 05, 2015 LAS VEGAS — One new video conferencing app is looking to change how you have virtual meetings. Called Personify, the computer and mobile app transforms your average run-of-the-mill video call into an immersive 3-D experience that feels more like an in-person meeting than a conversation with your computer screen.…