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  • This immersive Michael Jordan simulator is the world’s coolest basketball court

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    [Imagine the possibilities for other sports and non-sports installations… This is from Wired, where the story includes a photo gallery and short video loop. –Matthew ] [Image: “The Last Shot” is a 10-million-pixel immersive scene that lets you recreate one of Michael Jordan’s iconic game-winners. Credit: Tim Moynihan/WIRED] This Immersive Michael Jordan Simulator Is the World’s Coolest Basketball Court By Tim Moynihan 02.15.15 If you’ve played with the Wii, the Kinect, or PlayStation Move, you’ve already blurred the line between games and real-life action. But you’ve never experienced anything like the immersive, genre-bending installation called “The Last Shot”—unless you’re Michael…

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  • Call: “A Manifesto for Cyborgs” thirty-years on: Gender, Technology and Feminist-Technoscience in the twenty-first century

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    CALL FOR PAPERS A Manifesto for Cyborgs thirty-years on: Gender, Technology and Feminist-Technoscience in the twenty-first century Journal of Media and Communication An interdisciplinary journal for early career researchers and graduate students Abstracts due: Friday 27th of February, 2015 Volume Editor: Thao Phan In her iconic essay A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology and Socialist-Feminism in the 1980s, Donna Haraway introduced the metaphor of the cyborg as an “ironic political myth” to critique the so far troubling narratives of the West. Published in the Socialist Review in 1985, it brings together a broad spectrum of literacies-from socialist-feminism, to cybernetics and…

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  • Virtual reality dating lets couples build trust

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    [A Valentine’s Day post from psfk, where the story includes an additional picture; more information including gifs and a 1:33 minute video is available at the Cyborg Dating website website and a longer video is available on YouTube] Virtual Reality Dating Lets Couples Build Trust in Time for Valentine’s Cyborg Dating is an augmented experience that pairs couples in a VR-assisted game of ‘follow the leader’ By Kiran Umapathy on February 9, 2015 New virtual reality experiences are being developed every day. And if you’re looking for an interesting date idea, you may want to check out Cyborg Dating.…

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  • Call: Immersive Learning Research Network Conference – iLRN 2015

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    Immersive Learning Research Network Conference iLRN 2015 July 13 – July 14 Prague, Czech Republic http://immerisvelrn.org Full Papers submissions: 1st March 2015 Author Notification: 15th April 2015 Poster submissions: 15th April 2015 Workshops Proposals: 15th April 2015 Workshop/Poster Notification: 30th April 2015 Main Conference and Special Sessions: 13th – 14th July 2015 OVERVIEW The Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) is happy to announce its first International Conference in Prague on July 13th and 14th, 2015. The international conference will be organised by Graz University of Technology and University of Essex under the umbrella of the Immersive Learning Research Network Conference…

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  • You can get a realistic cuddly plush clone of your pet

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    [A technology for evoking telepresence after death (other coverage suggests this is a good alternative to taxidermy) from Oddity Central, where the story includes several more pictures and a 4:31 minute video with customer reactions (starting at about 2:12). For a single set of particularly compelling reactions see YouTube for “My family’s reaction to Cuddle Clines Tobi” (especially starting at about 2:15). The company’s website is down because of traffic volume at this writing, but more information is available here. I’d seriously consider this for my late, much-loved and missed dog Sidra… –Matthew ] Company Specializes in Creating Cuddly Plush…

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  • Call: Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media (ESSEM@AAMAS 2015)

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    CALL FOR PAPERS ESSEM@AAMAS 2015 2nd International Workshop on Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media: opportunities and challenges for emotion-aware multiagent systems Workshop website: http://di.unito.it/essem15 Co-located with AAMAS 2015 (http://www.aamas2015.com) Workshop date: May 4 or 5, 2015, Istanbul, Turkey NEWS! Submission DEADLINE EXTENDED to February 20, 2015 Extended versions of the best papers presented at the workshop will be published in a follow-on Issue of Springer’s Cognitive Computation journal Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Essem2015 Spread the news: #essem2015 Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Essem2015 Follow us on G+: http://plus.google.com/u/0/103784344195297543082/posts Flyer: http://www.di.unito.it/~patti/essem15/Call4papers_final-flyer2015.pdf RATIONALE Emotions play a key role in the…

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  • Demand for VR rises as advertisers invest in immersive experiences

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    [From Advertising Age; my favorite quote (from near the end): “one thing that turns out to be a rule is that you need to nurture a sense of presence.” –Matthew ] [Image: Masquerading with the Most Interesting Man Credit: Dos Equis] Grab Your Headset: Producers Plunge Into Virtual Reality Demand for VR Rises as Advertisers Invest in Immersive Experiences By Ann-Christine Diaz. Published on February 11, 2015. Before you start dismissing virtual reality as the stuff of gamer nerds, or the next Second Life, think again. In the last month alone, top creators from the entertainment and ad worlds and…

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  • Call: ‘Creation of Reality’: Towards an Interdisciplinary and Comprehensive Understanding

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    Call for Papers: The Crag International Confluence 2015 ‘Creation of Reality’: Towards an Interdisciplinary and Comprehensive Understanding Thursday 3 December – Saturday 5 December 2015 University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, U.K. http://www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk/crag/2015/02/09/crag-international-confluence-2015-call-papers/ Since the second half of the 20th century, ‘creation of reality’ is a compound that has gained exponential momentum in books and other publications (fiction and non-fiction). The general increase in the human belief that reality is, or can be to differing extents, created by us, is apparent in social processes of empowerment or disempowerment. ‘Creation of reality’ is also a growing scheme within the humanities, in the diverse…

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  • Meet the women who treat their “reborn” dolls like real children

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    [An unusual story about social presence from Fast Company’s Co.Design, where the article includes a large photo gallery; follow the link at the end for more information and images] [Troy, Nine Months of Reborning, from photographer Jamie Diamond’s series “Mother Love”] Meet The Women Who Treat Their “Reborn” Dolls Like Real Children A photographer immersed herself in the Reborning movement, in which collectors mother uncannily realistic baby dolls. Carey Dunne is a Brooklyn-based writer covering art and design. January 12, 2015 In the Reborning subculture, collectors “adopt” hyper-realistic artificial babies—impeccably crafted from vinyl, glass, doe suede, and up to eighty…

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  • Call: Multimodal Grand Challenges Proposals at ICMI 2015

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    Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges Proposals at the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2015) Seattle, WA, USA http://icmi.acm.org/2015/index.php?id=cfc Proposal submissions due: February 21st, 2015 Notifications: March 1st, 2015 Conference: November 9-13, 2015 The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. Developing systems that can robustly understand human-human communication or respond to human input requires identifying the best algorithms and their failure modes. In fields such as computer vision, speech recognition, and computational linguistics for example, the availability of datasets and common…

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  • The dark age of virtual reality-based torture is approaching fast

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    [From Motherboard] The Dark Age of Virtual Reality-Based Torture Is Approaching Fast Written by Doug Bierend January 31, 2015 ​Imagine you’re in a small room. The walls are covered in geometric patterns that literally hurt to look at. In the corner are a polygonal bed and bench canted at angles that make them impossible to sit on. The floor is cluttered with a gridwork of bricks rendering it impossible to walk any direction but forward. It sounds like a computer model of the exact opposite of Fung Shui, but it’s quite real. Built by anarchists fighting in the Spanish Civil…

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  • Call: 8th International Conference on Game and Entertainment Technologies 2015

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    CALL FOR PAPERS – GET 2015 – Deadline for submissions (1st call – new date): 6 March 2015 8th International Conference on Game and Entertainment Technologies 2015 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 22 – 24 July 2015 (http://www.gaming-conf.org/) Part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2015) Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 21 – 24 July 2015 (http://www.mccsis.org) KEYNOTE SPEAKER (CONFIRMED): Professor Joaquim Jorge, Full Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IST – Técnico Lisboa, Portugal CONFERENCE SCOPE The GET 2015 conference aims to bring together research and practice from creative, social and…

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