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WELCOME TO V. VALE's RE/SEARCH NEWSLETTER #86, October 2009

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Augmented Reality: YDreams Demo Reel

*YDreams really jazzing up the ol' AR vernacular video here. Looking smooth and snazzy! And

check out that kid's playground installation, around 1:55. Not a fiducial

marker in sight.

http://www.ydreams.com/blog/2009/10/02/what-really-is-augmented-reality/#more-559

*Interesting discussion here, too, on "real augmented reality." Personally, I'm thinking
the key here is not what you're augmenting, how fast it reacts or how big the
screens are, but the registration methods — the technical ways t...

Augmented Reality: Collaboration in Mixed Environments

*Nice labwork. Waiting to see the inevitable first lawsuit from a busted "handshake deal"

with an avatar.

*I'm a little unclear on the motive for piping in an avatar instead of just

setting up a webcam with the actual guy himself… but who knows, maybe he's

some kind of awesome anonymous master criminal.

*Of maybe you could build an avatar interface for your botnet. Would

that be great, or what? "Oh good, Srizbi is here. Srizbi, would you go

steal us some credit cards please?" "Yes sir!"

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Spime Watch: notes from UbiComp 2009

*Happy to see the Gumption blog cover this important event.

*In some ways, these geek blogs are better than being there. They've got all

the links pre-installed.

http://gumption.typepad.com/blog/2009/10/notes-from-ubicomp-2009.html

"Tamara Denning presented "A Spotlight on Security and Privacy Risks with Future Household Robots: Attacks and Lessons", which almost seemed like a work of science fiction, (((no kidding, wow, etc etc))) describing how household robots - such as Rovio ("a WiFi...

Music and Science Fiction, part 2

*Wait a minute — why would people really WANT to mix-up music with science fiction? What if there was, like, some kind of mutant industrial disaster or something?

Music and Science Fiction, call for entries

http://www.ailleurs.ch/index.php?s=en&m=6&blid=63

Music & Science Fiction: call for entries

Posted on 9th October 2009, 10:49

A new music compilation CD, produced by Maison d'Ailleurs, is now accepting submissions. The CD will be produced in 5600 copies, distributed for free with the music magazine Vibrations in March 2010, to accompany a Music and Science Fiction exhibition at the museum.

About the exhibition:

Maison d'Ailleurs is staging an exhibition about Music and Science Fiction from March 6...

Augmented Reality: Wails of pain at hardware provider

*Actual shoes pinch, as opposed to glass-slipper imaginary shoes.

*I hate to see people suffer, but, well, no, actually it becomes remarkably newsworthy and interesting when a new technology makes people suffer.

*Would you like to be the first guy arrested for Augmenting Reality? Go get Wikitude's
"World Trade Center" app, dress up as an Arab, and offer to show people in New York the missing skyscraper for a dollar. You'll be going downtown with the boys in blue before
you can get a new...

Steampunk in Oxford

*Speaking of wacky device art…

http://www.steampunkmuseumexhibition.blogspot.com/

"Hello. My name is Art Donovan and it is my singular honor to have been asked to curate the first museum exhibition of Steampunk art for The Museum of the History of Science, located at Oxford University in the original Ashmolean Building. This historic building housed the oldest museum in the western world and it is eminently appropriate that Victorian Inspired, Steampunk art would have it's first, bona fide...

What is Google Wave, by Epipheo

*This is the very picture of "vernacular video." Look what this guy is doing

for himself here.

*A third of a million hits? In a WEEK? It's like we've destroyed Main Stream

Media and replaced it with a favela lottery.

Bernie Lubell, device artist

*The traditional fine arts are in an awful pickle lately, but it almost looks like

we're entering a Golden Age of wacky device art.

*Maybe it's the natural expression of a society that's abandoned all

cultural stability for the allure of mobiles and laptops.

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V2_Newsletter October 2009

The big news at V2_ over the next two months is US artist Bernie
Lubell's exhibition "The Origins of Innocence". You'll find information
on the show and associated events in this special expanded...