Archive for Pioneering

Oh My Bosh! Design Your Very Own Chris Bosh Paper-Robo in Augmented Reality – Adding Interactivity to Your AR Apps

With Chris Bosh’s  contract with the Raptors expiring soon, there’s been a lot of talk of him being shopped around next season. Sources say that the Cleveland Cavaliers have targeted Bosh to play along side King James. While I don’t want to see Chris leave…

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FITC Toronto 2009 Top Ten Round Up

I just got back from volunteering at FITC Toronto 2009. I HIGHLY recommend volunteering. It’s a great way to attend the sessions for free and meet amazing new/old talent in the interactive field. I’ve come away from the conference with a lot of new ideas…

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Adidas Paris – 3D Shoe Designer with Gesture Tek Interface?

Welcome to my first blog post, in the post-IMM era! Right after the IMM Open house and volunteering at FITC 2008 Toronto, I parachuted out of Toronto with my girlfriend for a much needed vacation to Paris (France not Ontario). I had a relaxing vacation…

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Buzzwords and Social Media Sluts

Social Media is media that encourages conversation, community, and collaborative content creation. This fits IMM’s mandate, which is to create interactive content beyond navigation. Wayne MacPhail, is a social media consultant who gave a talk on Mashing Up Social Media and the DIY Community. He…

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From Analog to Digital: The Royal Ontario Museum and Steve Mann

Our field trip to the ROM brought back memories from grade 6, when our ancient civilizations class went on a field trip to look at various skulls of early humans. Clearly the ROM has changed a lot since grade school, the most dramatic of which…

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Developing a Mobile Platform

After polling the class, I’ve come to recognize a lot of the obstacles that arise in developing a mobile applications. A majority of the class don’t have Flash Lite capable mobile devices, and the few that do don’t use flash lite applications because data plans…

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GestureTek Technology

Today our class went on a field trip to visit GestureTek Technology, located downtown Toronto. Vincent John Vincent started GestureTek, to support performance art involving virtual instruments. The early iterations of their technology employed an Amiga with 16 colours, laser disks that contained background video…

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Visualization Design Institute

Today we visited the Visualization Design Institute at Sheridan College. The lab’s primary focus is computer visualization and simulation. They have implemented this technology in scientific, medical, engineering, educational, cultural and environmental research. Song Ho Ahn demonstrated the Facial Animation Communication Engine F.A.C.E. Using this…

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