Recent And Not-So-Recent Links

Nicolas Nova is collecting a list of interactive tables which support collaborative work. Does ARTHUR count? (Disclosure: UCL was a partner in the project.)

ARQuake looks like it could be good fun. Foot-based mobile interaction with games sounds fun too. Virtual chopsticks are probably less fun that the real thing, especially with slippery mushrooms.

ScratchCode is "a selection of historic computational works: 1950s - 1970s, plotter drawing, prints, sculptures, film".

Matt Webb is posting good stuff on embodied interaction at both Interconnected and Mind Hacks. Andrew Losowsky has an in-depth follow-up to his Guardian article about Sony's EyeToy.

John Maeda is posting consistently thoughtful and stimulating content to his new weblog, SIMPLICITY.

Grand Theft Reality is an unmissable article from Dan Hill's City Of Sound about film, gaming, architecture, location, Los Angeles, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and everything in between. Things Magazine also has a good follow-up.

Terra Nova posts Stanislav Roudavski's plea for examples of Virtual Architecture, specificly "where spatial structures are designed (or gradually grown) to respond to and guide in-world behaviour".

Real World Doesn't Use a Joystick is an amusing article from Wired about the potentially damaging implications of continuing game-playing behaviour in the real world.

This Generative Systems Lecture by Manfred Wolff-Plottegg is overwhelmingly illustrated, though I confess I haven't looked at it in great detail.

Most of these links were found via Networked Performance, Pasta and Vinegar, We Make Money Not Art and my newly-restored delicous inbox. I'm also enjoying Data Is Nature and Thinking Machine.

Instant City

Dan Hill at City of Sound points to Instant City (choose English, Projects, Instant City). From the project description (pdf), Instant City is a "music building game table":

One or more players at a table can create architecture using semi-transparent building blocks and in the process make different modular compositions audible.

Every performance is unique because the sequence, timing and combination possibilities are completely in the hands of the players!

More useful downloads, including a movie, are also available.

Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting

jvrb
http://www.jvrb.org/jvrb/

The “Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting” is an open access E-journal covering advanced media technology for the integration of human computer interaction and modern information systems. The main focus is on the creation of synergies between such basic technologies as computer graphics and state-of-the-art broadcasting techniques.
The main goal of the project is the publication of recent research results in the domain of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting, which is hoped to encourage discussions and promote the exchange of ideas and information. Developments in the area of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting have a direct effect on society; therefore attention will also be paid to sociological aspects. As an interdisciplinary field, Virtual Reality requires multilateral collaboration in order to facilitate the development of new applications. Research topics which receive treatment in the journal are: media technology, human factors, human machine interfaces, computer graphics, image technology, tracking, sensors, interactive broadcasting, virtual set environments, augmented
reality, haptic interfaces, and new interfaces. The motivation for creating an open access journal is twofold. The two areas of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting will merge in the future and will come to define an entirely new media which will eventually replace television and present day computer usage. Secondly, the use of an open-access licence supports the right of free knowledge access. It helps to establish an exchange platform for an international scientific community.

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