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Jan 13
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Immersive/Panoramic Video: Are we Missing Something?

By immersive video, panoramic video

Ten years ago we drove a car around London capturing immersive video linked to a GPS unit and portable GIS system. Little did you know then that Google would take the concept a step further with their Street View system. Back then the resolution was poor and while we are huge fans of panoramic imagery we simply don’t ‘get’ panoramic video.

A still panorama can be a work of art, it is a full 360×180 degree moment captured in time. We have over 100 such images dotted around the blog but we gave up on immersive video as a bad job. That said, its nice to now see the ability to look around such scenes via Flash as the embedded clip from http://demos.immersivemedia.com/ demonstrates:

Perhaps with an increase in resolution its time to take a second look at immersive video, but part of us simply cant quite see the point.

Jan 13
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The Scalable City

By Fractal Cities, Procedural Cities


Scalable City creates an urban/suburban/rural environment via a data visualization pipeline. Each step in this pipeline builds upon the previous, amplifying exaggerations, artifacts and the patterns of algorithmic process.
The results of this are experiences such as prints, video installations and interactive multi-user games and virtual environments. We really like this, its an extremely impressive demo:

Scalable City is a project by Sheldon Brown and the Experimental Game Lab.

There is a 1.27 hr talk on the concept available via YouTube which is well with a look, it is also worth checking out the ‘Construction Process‘ page over at http://www.sheldon-brown.net/

Thanks goes to Andrew Leahy from the University of Western Sydney for sending this in.

Jan 12
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Connected to Everything: Else Mobile (The Time Has Come)

By connectivity, internet of things, urban space

Overlaying data driven graphics is a neat yet relatively quick and effective way communicate a sense of connectivity – as the clip below demonstrates. The advert was created for Else Mobile Phones as half viral campaign, half official website content and commissioned by The Visionaire Group in LA. ‘The Time Has Come’ acts as an intro for the new mobile device. The entire campaign was shot on location in downtown LA and California:

Else Mobile (The Time Has Come) from Rob Chiu on Vimeo.


We are becoming increasing connected – soon there will be a way to connect every object to the internet and every object to everything else. More on that in the coming months, we would like to say more but sadly we are not allowed to, simply watch this space, work is going on in our lab as we type…

Jan 08
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Eden – Anaglyph Version

By 3D Rendering, Anaglyph City

Your need red/blue 3D glasses for this one, but with the rise of 3D content over the last few months, including old school anaglyph, 3D glasses are becoming a bit of must of have on ones desk:

eden – Anaglyph Version from Tobias Keip on Vimeo.


The movie was produced by Tobias Keip for the first international Shortfilm Challenge
invazion.org. It was created using a combination of Adobe Audition, Photoshop, Blender, and Adobe After Effects…

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