MixedRealities

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theleisuresociety:

Alternative title: How Steve Jobs killed the animator profession.

A very good friend of mine is an animator and it’s thanks to her that I have any insight into the animation industry at all. Though I confess, my insight is marginal to say the least.

Nevertheless it’s due to her that I was…

parislemon:

msg:

JustVined.com was brought to my attention by @buster

It reminds @patrickmoberg of the scene from Batman.

It reminds me of the architect scene from The Matrix.

Enjoy the 2013 flavored dopamine, kids.

“Beautiful. Unethical. Dangerous.” … “This is wrong.”

About that brain: 

Markram thinks that instead of studying individual areas of the brain, science should try to build a unified model of the brain. If done correctly, this should leapfrog the cumbersome, piecemeal approach from his colleagues that he thinks is unsatisfying.  The end goal is to build a brain that is intelligent and behaves like a human, confirms Markram:  ”It is not impossible to build a human brain and we can do it in 10 years,”  he said in 2009 at the TED conference in Oxford.[4] In a BBC World Service interview he said: “If we build it correctly it should speak and have an intelligence and behave very much as a human does.”—

About to watch The Startup Kids with the folks of Jini and Idealabs…

(Source: vimeo.com)

Cool and a bit creepy. PrimeSense sensors following up on retail customers, interacting with them.

Augmented Reality is generally important because it’s one of those grand, metaphysical quests in computer science — what is reality, what can we do to reality?
Bruce Sterling in an interview on 40kbooks

Fictional machines make us think. The intersection of the physical, the virtual, and the domestic.

It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral — it’s a moral imperative.

‘The Interface is You’, says SoftKinetic