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Author: Matthew Lombard

  • VR has another ‘wow’ moment as Jaunt introduces 360-degree cinematic videos

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    [From VentureBeat; see also coverage by Gigaom] Virtual reality has another ‘wow’ moment as Jaunt introduces 360-degree cinematic videos April 3, 2014 Dean Takahashi I was alone in a room wearing virtual reality goggles. But it felt like I was in a park, surrounded by four Shaolin monks who were threatening me on all sides with martial arts moves. This kind of surround-video experience is what you’ll get from Jaunt, a new entertainment startup coming out of stealth today. On top of announcing a funding round, Jaunt is unveiling for the first time its new way to experience 360-degree videos in…

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  • Call: Summer School – Research 2.0: The Virtual Stakes: Methodology, Epistemology, Ethics

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    Call for Participation Summer School Research 2.0: The Virtual Stakes Methodology, Epistemology, Ethics For graduate students and young researchers June 3 – 6, 2014 Concordia University Montreal Organised by the Research Chair on Gambling, and Habitudes de vie et Recherches MultidisciplinairES (HERMES) Spaces are limited. The sessions will be held in English and French. Subscription fees 150$ (taxes and meals included). Funding will be provided for the 5 best applicants. Application deadline: April 18, 2014 Details and Application at: http://www.concordia.ca/research/lifestyle-addiction/training/summer-school2.html Main Objectives The Summer School Research 2.0: The Virtual Stakes seeks to offer a collegial space for exchange and interaction…

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  • GravitySketch, an Oculus Rift hack, lets you draw in 3-D

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    [From Wired, where the story includes 2 videos] An Oculus Rift Hack That Lets You Draw in 3-D By Joseph Flaherty 04.02.14 Facebook’s $2 billion acquisition of Oculus Rift has reopened conversation about the potential of virtual reality, but a key question remains: How will we actually interact with these worlds? Minecraft creator Markus Persson noted that while these tools can enable amazing experiences, moving around and creating in them is far from a solved problem. A group of Royal College of Art students–Guillaume Couche, Daniela Paredes Fuentes, Pierre Paslier, and Oluwaseyi Sosanya–has developed a tool called GravitySketch that starts…

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  • Call: Digital Technologies Showcase at University Museums Group Annual Conference

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    CALL FOR ENTRIES DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE UNIVERSITY MUSEUMS GROUP (UMG) ANNUAL CONFERENCE DIGITAL DIMENSIONS 12-13 June 2014 Wickham Theatre, University of Bristol, Bristol University Museums Group (UMG) is looking to showcase innovative digital projects produced through collaborations between museums and universities at its annual conference, Digital Dimensions (http://universitymuseumsgroup.org/events/featured/) Have you been involved in a digital project in which university and museum professionals have worked together to: (1) find a museum application for a digital technology used in a different discipline or that is the result of blue sky research; (2) user test a new digital technology in a museum environment;…

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  • Presence-related April Fools roundup

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    [Here are a few presence-related highlights of 2014 April Fools jokes from the web; if you spot others, please post links in the comments…!  –Matthew ] 1. RAZER Razer introduces Eidolon: The world’s first wearable drone system. Play life in the third person: A true out-of-body experience.…

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  • Street Eraser art in London blurs mediated and nonmediated worlds

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    [When effective, this should evoke inverse presence; the post is from designboom, where you’ll find many more photos of the art] Giant Photoshop eraser sticks to London streets Guus & Tayfun March 21, 2014 Two creatives behind the ‘street eraser‘ blog are merging the digital world with the analog, sticking their adobe-inspired art throughout London’s urban fabric. The giant playful labels illustrate the familiar grey and white checkerboard pattern, visible when using the eraser tool in Photoshop. Eliminating graffitti from traffic signs, color from mailboxes and portions of billboards, the intervention seemingly reveals a concealed world beneath our own.…

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  • ISPR News: 2014 conference thank yous and award winners

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    [Image © M/G Felnhofer] Great thanks to the many people who made the ISPR 2014 conference in Vienna such a success, especially the Conference Chairs Anna Felnhofer and Oswald D. Kothgassner. It was another wonderfully productive, interesting and very enjoyable Presence conference (watch ISPR Presence News for announcements about the next conference as well as other ISPR developments). The official conference Proceedings are available now in book form from Amazon and Facultas and will be available via links to Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) files containing each paper on the ISPR web site beginning this September (they’re listed there now). We had…

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  • Call: 36th Annual Humanities and Technology Conference

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    CALL FOR PAPERS 36TH ANNUAL HUMANITIES AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE St. Thomas University, Miami Gardens, Florida 06 – 08 November 2014 Deadline: August 1, 2014 http://htronline.weebly.com/hta-conference-2014.html We are happy to announce the call for papers for the 36th annual Humanities and Technology Association Conference. The main track for this year’s conference will be Technology and Politics. Papers are particularly welcome that address the democratization of science and technology; political ecology and digital activism; hyperobjectivities and technological mediations; biopolitics, including macro- and micro-biopolitics; technology of subjectivities, including the techno-politics of sexuality; surveillance technologies; digital policing and technologies of warfare (cyber, drone, etc.);…

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  • Japanese rockstar Yoshiki engages in piano battle with hologram of himself

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    [From GizMag, where the story includes additional pictures] Japanese rockstar Yoshiki engages in piano battle with hologram of himself By Nick Lavars March 20, 2014 Following in the virtual footsteps of Tupac Shakur, at the SXSW festival last weekend Japanese musical icon Yoshiki used a hologram not just in an attempt to add a little flair to his performance, but to indulge those fans who can’t quite get enough of him. Yoshiki, a musician, songwriter, composer, record producer, front man of heavy-metal band X Japan and classical soloist, appeared on stage at the music and technology festival to a rousing…

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  • Call: 14th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2014)

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    CALL FOR PAPERS Fourteenth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2014) August 27-29, 2014, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) are interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities and communicate with humans or with each other using natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech and gesture. They are capable of real-time perception, cognition and action that allow them to participate in dynamic social environments. IVA 2014 is an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main leading scientific forum for presenting research on modeling, developing, and evaluating intelligent virtual agents with a focus on communicative abilities and social behavior. In…

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  • 3-D display offers chilling look at Nagasaki after A-bomb attack

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    [From The Asahi Shimbun, where the story includes additional images] 3-D display offers chilling look at Nagasaki after A-bomb attack March 05, 2014 By Miyuki Kanno / Staff Writer NAGASAKI–A new 3-D imaging display system allowing viewers to experience the devastation of Nagasaki immediately after the 1945 atomic bombing opened here on March 3. Virtual Genshiya (Virtual atomic wasteland), developed by Takashi Fujiki, a professor of technology education at Nagasaki University, uses computer graphics to give viewers a panoramic view of a 500-meter radius of ground zero just after the blast. The system is on display at the Art and…

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  • Call: Arts,Design & Virtual Worlds – Special session at Cyberworlds 2014

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    Calls for Papers: ARTS,DESIGN & VIRTUAL WORLDS SPECIAL SESSION http://artsvirtualworlds.artsmachine.org at CYBERWORLDS 2014 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE http://www.cw2014.unican.es/home 6-8 OCTOBER 2014, SANTANDER, SPAIN University of Cantabria, Spain Chair: Dr. Gianluca Mura, Politecnico di Milano University, Italy SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 MAY, 2014 Send your paper to: gianluca.mura@polimi.it More information from http://artsvirtualworlds.artsmachine.org/ Submissions include full paper (up to 8 pages), short paper (up to 4 pages) and poster (1 page, abstract). The papers must be written in English, carefully proofread, and formatted to Conference Publishing Services Manuscript Formatting Guidelines from http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting Please use the following template for preparing your papers from: http://www.artsmachine.org/web/docs/IEEECS_CPS.zip or http://www.artsmachine.org/web/docs/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX.zip…

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