Posts Tagged ‘transparant-interfaces’

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  MANKO & Plagiarism

  In this first review of the works of Manko, we’ll discuss the complex sorts of plagiarism in Augmented Reality art that are typical for our contemporary art scene. This introduces a relevant clue to the later demise of Manko.

  By ASTON REVOLA, Paris 21-08-20, for NextNature.net

  Last year, in May, Manko released an artistic Augmented Reality (AR) application that showed what the missing arms, legs and even heads of some of the most famous sculptures in art history were supposed to look like. Based on artist sketchbooks he remodeled them in 3D and with the use of the new contact lenses of the museum, visitors could now see the whole picture. It was a huge success and soon enough Manko licensed others to remix these virtual body parts he designed. One of the best remixes was actually done by Manko himself, where he transposed the arms of Milo’s Venus onto Dali’s version, making the arms move and search all the drawers in her chest, frantically and endlessly.

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  Aston Revola

  on 21/08/10 Comments »

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  • Hyperreality | Image-Consumption | transparant-interfaces | virtual-for-real
    

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  Physical Scrollbars

  Scrollbars is a series of installations and physical scrollbar-representations created by Dutch artist Jan Robert Leegte. According to the artist, most of us consider the scrollbar to be a virtual object – but in use it triggers reactions such as frustration, which suggests a subconscious acceptance of the inherent “reality” of these objects.

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  Koert van Mensvoort

  on 17/06/10 1 Comment »

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  • Digital-Presence | Hyperreality | Made-to-debate | Officegarden | Sentient Spaces | The-map-is-the-territory | transparant-interfaces
    

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• Transparency Suit

  Image consumption has never been as cool as in this brand new clip by Studio Smack, which was created for the upcoming Graphic Design Festival.

  The ‘Transparency Suit’ visualizes the unseen flow of information around us into a second skin, a suit that reveals a new field of visual code that increasingly defines who we are. Welcome in the Society of Simulations. Any resemblance with the Matrix is purely not coincidental.

  

  Koert van Mensvoort

  on 05/05/10 Comments »

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  • Digital-Presence | Hyperreality | Image-Consumption | Information-decoration | Manufactured-Bodies | Sentient Spaces | supermarket | Symbolic-Overdrive | transparant-interfaces
    

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  Digitally Enhance your Ego

  Avatars, almost every internet user has at least one of them running around somewhere on the web. We control then in numerous games and forums, but do they also control us?

  Researchers at the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at the Stanford university have researched the effects of the appearance of avatars on the behavior of their ‘controllers’. People with a more attractive avatar acted more extrovert and outgoing than the ones with a less good looking one.

  This effect however isn’t as surprising as the following effect: it doesn’t wear of once the computer is turned off. In a test the subjects were asked to first interact in a digital space and afterward, without knowing that it still was the same experiment, to split money with another person in real life. People who have been playing with taller avatars were more likely to make unfair split proposal in their favor and less likely to accept an unfair offer from the other side. This also works the other way around: shorter avatars result in less aggressive negotiating and accepting less fair offers.

  So are you ready to take your digital booster shots before you go into a meeting? and what kind of negotiator do you want to be?

  Read the entire research article by Nick Yee and Jeremy Bailenson (pdf)

  Tomas Pieters

  on 23/04/10 2 Comments »

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  • Boomeranged-Metaphors | Digital-Presence | Manufactured-Bodies | transparant-interfaces
    

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  Once you enter, you are the Car

  Martin Heidegger and Marshall Mcluhan already described people’s tendency to extend their identities in the animate objects when interacting with them. When for instance, driving a car the vehicle seems to become an extension of our body. It absorbs our sense of identity and when two cars hits another in traffic, the driver of the vehicle being struck is more likely to say: “Hey! You hit me!”, than “You hit my car” or “Your car hit my car”, to be accurate.

  I wonder what these thinkers would have made of the Hitachi’s vein authentication system, which identifies individuals based on the unique pattern of blood vessels inside their fingers. While providing an extra layer of security against car theft, Hitachi’s steering wheel finger vein authentication system also works to improve in-vehicle comfort when used with seats, mirrors and air conditioners that auto-adjust according to the preferences of the driver touching the wheel. Just another small step in the thinning of the border between people and products? Once you enter, you are the car.

  Source: Hitachi Press release (japanese), Via Pink Tentacle.

  

  Koert van Mensvoort

  on 18/03/10 3 Comments »

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  • On-the-Road | Physical-computing | transparant-interfaces
    

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  Meat Stylus

  “Who wants a stylus?” Words by Apple’s Steve Jobs when introducing the iPhone that uses a revolutionary input device: the finger. And it works wonderfully, yet in some situations you prefer something else.

  Recently sales of CJ Corporation’s snack sausages are on the increase in South Korea because of the cold weather; they are useful as a meat stylus for those who don’t want to take off their gloves to use their iPhones.

  Apparently the sausages, electrostatically speaking, are close approximations of the human finger.

  

  Via Kottke.org, via Clusterflock.

  

  Koert van Mensvoort

  on 24/02/10 Comments »

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  Digital Trashcan in a Physical Office

  The Swedish design group Front brings the principle of the digital computerdesktop trashcan back to the physical world. When your trashcan basket is full it bulges outward. When half-full, it is in permanent motion. The internal basket pushes downward while the external slats try to maintain an upright position.

  This product is an illustrative example of a so–called ‘boomeranged metaphor‘. At the beginning of the computer era, objects and experiences from everyday life were recreated in the digital domain, so that people could relate to the – otherwise incomprehensible technology – more easily. Think the computer desktop folders, buttons, painting brush, trashcan, etc. Nowadays, digital technology has become so omnipresent that we start transferring metaphors from the virtual environment to our physical environment, in order to relate to it.

  Related: Avatar Machine, Delete-Key-Eraser, Playing Dreams.

  

  Koert van Mensvoort

  on 28/01/10 Comments »

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  • Boomeranged-Metaphors | Information-decoration | Officegarden | transparant-interfaces | virtual-for-real
    

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  Re-visualizing Molecular Science

  I vividly remember being offended throughout my high-school education because ‘atoms’ where consistently presented as these perfect slick round little spheres. At one time I even called the teacher a fabricator of lies and shouted: “Atoms aren’t balls!!”.

  Of course the poor man couldn’t help it, as it was just decided to teach us high-school kids a outdated, simplified 19th century version of the atom model, rather than confusing us with subatomic particles like protons, neutron, up-quarks, down-quarks, gluons and what do you have nowadays.

  In retrospect I was just a kid trying to be witty after having flipped through some of the science magazines of my dad, who was a physicist. Nonetheless, I always remained keen on the underestimated role of simulations in modern science.

  Are you still reading? Then this call for proposals might be for you. The STRP Festival, Institute of Complex Molecular Systems, and Animation Studio invite artists, designers and scientists to develop a new visual language for molecular structures.

  “Recently, a new problem has emerged for molecular scientists. For many decennia they have used a world-wide accepted way of representing molecules, even though these molecules have never really been seen. Unfortunately, this language is not suitable to represent the increasing complexity of the molecular systems and dynamic processes that are subject of modern research. … We think that a breakthrough in this area is only possible with ideas of people with different specialisms.”

  Download the full Call for Proposals (pdf).

  

  

  Koert van Mensvoort

  on 19/11/09 3 Comments »

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  • Digital-Presence | Hypermaterials | Image-Consumption | Meta-Meta-Reality | The-map-is-the-territory | transparant-interfaces
    

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  Schöne Aussichten

  Schöne Aussichten is a photo series created by Wibke Schaub.

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  Koert van Mensvoort

  on 18/11/09 5 Comments »

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  Sixth Sense

  Although this TED video has been all over the web and commented on this website already, it still deserves a separate post: Desigineers Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry of the MIT Media Lab – Fluid Interfaces Group envision a ‘Sixth Sense’ a wearable gestural interface to pave the way for a more profound interaction with our environment by augmenting it with digital information. The next nature thinking in their argument is striking:

  We’ve evolved over millions of years to sense the world around us. When we encounter something, someone or some place, we use our five natural senses to perceive information about it; that information helps us make decisions and chose the right actions to take. But arguably the most useful information that can help us make the right decision is not naturally perceivable with our five senses, namely the data, information and knowledge that mankind has accumulated about everything and which is increasingly all available online.

  Hence, they propose to blend all cultural information within the environment as a natural phenomenon. Culture becomes nature. Our environment becomes the interface again.

  Of course, like with every emerging next nature, there is always an older nature lost: You’ll never be able to meet new people without immediately googling them.

  Related: On the Road, Augmented phone browsing, Avatar Machine, Datafountain, A Society of Simulations. Thanks Ton & Arnoud.

  

  Koert van Mensvoort

  on 25/09/09 Comments »

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  • Feed-Back | Hyperreality | Officegarden | Physical-computing | Symbolic-Overdrive | The-map-is-the-territory | transparant-interfaces
    

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  Second Sight – Augmented Contacts

  Getting information as fast as possible and on the spot is the trend. So what could be more direct than having information fired directly into the eye?

  Today — together with his students — Babak A. Parviz, bionanotechnology expert at University of Washington, is already producing devices that have a lens with one wirelessly Radio Frequency powered LED. To turn such a lens into a functional browser, control circuits, communication circuits and miniature antennas will have to be integrated. These lenses will eventually include hundreds of semitransparent LEDs, which will form images in front of the eye: words, charts, imagery enabling the wearers to navigate their surroundings whithout distraction or disorientation. The optoelectronics in the lens may be controlled by a seperate device that relays information to the lens’s control circuit. Read more »

  

  Arnoud van den Heuvel

  on 02/09/09 3 Comments »

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  • Digital-Presence | Feed-Back | Hyperreality | Image-Consumption | Nanotechnology | Physical-computing | transparant-interfaces
    

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  The anatomy of fun

  This guy put his work as an x-ray technician and his gaming hobby together and put his (old) gaming devices under the scanner. I was surprised how some of them actually look like nature, maybe there is a clue in that? (Probably not).

  Check out his set of X-Ray Funnies on Flickr.

  

  Rolf Coppens

  on 22/08/09 Comments »

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  • sexy-machinery | Technorhetoric | transparant-interfaces
    

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