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  • Drone camera at fireworks displays takes you ‘Inside the Explosion’

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    [From CNET; a story about a Nashville entrepreneur who tried the same thing this year is available in The Tennessean] [Image: A look inside the lights. Joe Stiglingh/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET] When you fly a drone into fireworks, it’s quite beautiful A YouTube video that’s currently inciting wonder shows a completely different perspective on a fireworks display. by Chris Matyszczyk July 5, 2014 The proliferation of controlled flying objects has incited many an imagination. Some believe drones should be used to deliver vacuum cleaners. Others might have more nefarious, prurient intentions. However, one man thought it might be entertaining…

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  • Call: Video Game Studies at Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) 2015 conference

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    Call for Papers Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) 2015 Video Game Studies Scholarly Interest Group Montreal, March 25-29, 2015 The Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Video Game Studies Scholarly Interest Group invites all game scholars to propose papers on game studies and related topics for the SCMS 2015 conference, Wednesday, March 25th to Sunday, March 29th at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. Information about the general call for papers can be found here: http://www.cmstudies.org/?page=call_for_submissions In order to encourage game-related submissions to SCMS, the VGSSIG will be compiling a list of pre-constituted panels and workshops looking for…

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  • ‘Revealing flashlight’ uses AR to restore ancient treasures

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    [From the Daily Mail, where the story includes more images and two videos] [Image: Researchers have shown off their device called the revealing flashlight that can be used to digitally restore artefacts. Pictured is an artefact (1), while an input (in this case a finger at 2) is being used to manipulate a LeapMotion gesture device (3), which allows the user to ‘point’ where they want the projection to go] Shining a light on the past: ‘Virtual reality’ torch projects missing fragments on to ancient treasures, restoring them to their former glory Researchers led from Bordeaux have created an augmented…

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  • Call: “Cyborgian Images: The moving image between apparatus and body” for Yearbook of Moving Image Studies

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    Call for Papers First Issue – Yearbook of Moving Image Studies “Cyborgian Images: The moving image between apparatus and body” Deadline for Articles: December 31, 2014 The double-blind peer-reviewed Yearbook of Moving Image Studies (YoMIS) is now accepting articles from scientists, scholars, artists and film makers for the first issue entitled “Cyborgian Images: The moving image between apparatus and bod”. YoMIS will be enriched by disciplines like media and film studies, image science, (film) philosophy, art history, game studies and other research areas related to the moving image in general. Modern perspectives on the structure of moving images exemplify a…

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  • The virtual sun in user interfaces is finally setting

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    [From Motherboard, where the story includes more pictures; for another perspective (!) and more examples, see “Flat design casts a long shadow” in WDD] [Image: An example of a long shadow in a flat design, from WDD] The Virtual Sun Is Finally Setting Written by Claire L. Evans, Futures Editor June 27, 2014 In 2006, I switched from PC to Mac in the midst of an aesthetic sea change called Web 2.0. Overnight, all my buttons and toggles became aqueous, squishy blobs. For my entire young life as a computer user, that place had been populated with beige file folders…

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  • Call: International Workshop on Symbiotic Interaction (at NordiCHI 2014)

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    International Workshop on Symbiotic Interaction Helsinki, 30th and 31st of October 2014 (co-located with NordiCHI 2014) www.symbiotic2014.org DEADLINE EXTENDED: 10th of July 2014:  Deadline for Abstracts 12th of July 2014:  Deadline for Research Papers, Demos and Posters submission The workshop brings together researchers and practitioners interested in investigating a novel generation of symbiotic relationships between humans and computers . Symbiotic interaction can be achieved combining computation, sensing technology and interaction design to realise deep perception, awareness and understanding between humans and computers. Important aspects to implement are transparency, reciprocity and collaborative use of resources across both computers and humans. We…

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  • Kite & Lightning’s ‘Genesis’: Immersion-machine that takes you on a reality-bending ride

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    [From Road to VR, where the story includes more pictures and a 4:14 minute video] Kite & Lightning’s ‘Genesis’ is an Immersion-machine That Takes You on a Reality-bending Ride June 30, 2014 by Ben Lang When the Kite & Lightning developers told me they had something to show me that couldn’t physically be demonstrated anywhere else, I was intrigued. Little did I know, upon arriving at their office, that I would be stepping into a contraption that’s been presumed to be a torture device, a jungle gym, and yes, even a “sex machine.” Kite & Lightning is a creative development…

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  • Call: 3rd Workshop on Games and NLP (GAMNLP-14)

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    Call For Papers The 3rd Workshop on Games and NLP (GAMNLP-14) http://sites.google.com/site/gamnlp14/ to be held at the Tenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-14). OBJECTIVE: This workshop aims at promoting and exploring the possibilities for research and practical applications involving Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Games. The main objective is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss and share ideas regarding how the NLP research community can contribute to games research and vice versa. For example, games could benefit from NLP’s sophisticated human language technologies in designing natural and engaging dialogues to bring…

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  • First U.S. 4D theaters open in Los Angeles

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    [From The Wrap, where the story includes other pictures. For more on the two 4D theaters that opened this weekend see The Hollywood Reporter and a 2:52 minute video new report from WEAR-TV] 4D Theaters Buck, Jerk, Spray and Hurtle Their Way Into America Bring a towel and witness what may be the future of film By Brent Lang on April 13, 2014 It bucks, it mists, it hurtles. It smells. No this is not an amusement park ride and yes, the smells part is accurate. It’s 4D, the latest effort by cinema owners to offer something on the big…

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  • Call: The 21st Multimedia Modelling Conference (MMM 2015)

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    The 21st Multimedia Modelling Conference (MMM 2015) Jan 5-7, 2015, Sydney, Australia http://www.mmm2015.org/ MMM 2015 is a leading international conference for researchers and industry practitioners for sharing new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all MMM related areas. The conference calls for research papers reporting original research and investigation results as well as demonstrations in all areas related to multimedia modelling technologies and applications. The conference also calls for proposals of special sessions. The conference proceedings will be published as series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer. There will be best submission awards. Authors…

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  • Google’s incredibly clever cardboard VR headset

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    [From TechCrunch, where the story includes more images and a 2:52 minute video; see also the follow-up stories, How To Make Your Own #Cardboard VR Goggles, Buy A Google #Cardboard Clone For $20, and The Story Behind Google’s Cardboard Project] Hands On With Google’s Incredibly Clever Cardboard Virtual Reality Headset Posted June 25, 2014 by Greg Kumparak Each year at I/O, Google gives all of the developers in the audience a gift. Some years it’s a tablet. Some years it’s a laptop. This year? It was a piece of cardboard. Yeah, yeah, they gave attendees some other stuff, too —…

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  • Call: Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association conference

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    Call for Papers: Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area 36th Annual Southwest Popular / American Culture Association Conference February 11-14, 2015 Hyatt Regency Hotel and Conference Center Albuquerque, NM http://www.southwestpca.org The Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area welcomes papers, panels, and other proposals on games (digital and otherwise) and their study and development. The Area is also offering a three hour workshop titled “Empathy Game Design: A Quick Introduction” on the first day of the conference. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION Possible topics include (but are in no way limited to): Advertising (both in-game and out) Alternative reality games Archiving and…

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