[From Singularity Hub] Japan’s Augmented Reality Teleconference Room August 27th, 2010 by Aaron Saenz Get ready for teleconferencing in the round. NTT, the world’s second largest telecomm, has developed a new video room that allows users to share an overlapping virtual environment. Dubbed the t-Room, NTT’s next generation conferencing solution takes real time video of your friends and displays them on tall window-like screens surrounding you. Your image, in turn, is shown in a window in your friend’s t-Room. When you overlap in the same window you can see the other person ‘behind you’ in the screen. It’s a sort…

[From Medill Reports] [Image: “Oceans of Change,” a virtual visulatization of the passage of time.] Life – now in exciting 3D! by Jessica Krinke Aug 27, 2010 Chicago artist Ellen Sandor has been bending the dimensions of visual art since the 1980s, creating scientific visualizations of everything from fractal math to viruses. Driven originally by what she describes as “a healthy appetite for kitsch,” Sandor was fascinated by turn-of-the-century novelties such as lenticular postcards and stereoscopic films. She set out to develop ways to include similar alternative effects in her work. Sandor, a pioneer the fields of digital art and…

[From The Ski Channel Television Network] Thursday, Aug 26, 2010 @ 16:35:48 PM Skullcandy debuts virtual reality dressing room Sure pro skier Tom Wallisch looks stylish in the new Skullcandy Roc Nation headphones, but will you? That’s the age old question that once faced consumers but not anymore. Skullcandy has launched a first in the headphone space and something never before seen in the action sports world, debuting a virtual dressing room for their Roc Nation Aviator headphone. By downloading a simple plugin, and accessing the user’s webcam, the Skullcandy Virtual Room tracks the users eyes and displays live footage…

[From Big Think’s Hybrid Reality blog] Can Hollywood Redesign Humanity Parag and Ayesha Khanna on August 29, 2010 Most people do not come to Hollywood for deep conversation, but as we explained with respect to “serious games,” the entertainment universe is producing an impressive array of products that can educate youth to think more constructively about real-world problems through experimenting with solutions in online environments. There is also a new breed of film-makers who are advancing the cause of techno-optimism in ways that contradict the dystopian visions of robots taking over the earth. When we convened a salon of film-makers, online…

[From InfoWorld] August 19, 2010 HP projection technology could take a page from Star Wars Businesspeople would be projected into meetings the same way R2D2 projected a hologram of Princess Leia By Paul Krill | InfoWorld In the future, business meetings might seem like a scene out of the movie “Star Wars,” if  technology envisioned at Hewlett-Packard comes to fruition. Stars Wars-like 3-D projection technology is on the drawing board at the company, with the potential to project businesspersons at many locations into virtual reality-like meetings, reducing the need to hop on airplanes and spend significant time away from home.…

[From BLDGBLOG] Augmented Metropolis Posted August 23, 2010  Keiichi Matsuda, a recent graduate—with distinction—from the Bartlett School of Architecture, whose film Domestic Robocop was featured on BLDGBLOG several months ago, has a new project out: Augmented City. And it’s in 3D. The [2:46 minute] film “focuses on the deprogramming of architecture and the spontaneous creation of customised, aggregated spaces,” Matsuda writes. We see its central protagonist surrounded by pop-up menus and projected touchscreens, able to switch urban backgrounds—graffiti to gardens—in an instant. …