A Mixed Bag ‘O New Media
Tomorrow is shaping up to be rather complicated as it’s my wife’s birthday. Happy 30th Sandra! (Poor dear!)
It starts with breakfast and keeps on going from there, so I’m not certain when I’ll get to the Business in Virtual Worlds News Roundup this week. Might have to bump it a day.
Meanwhile, how about some strange and wonderful stuff? Yes? I thought so!
Wikitude AR Travel Guide (Part 1)
This video demonstrates the augmented reality camera view of Wikitude AR on a G1 phone from a beautiful viewpoint looking down on Salzburg.
Wikitude is a mobile travel guide based on Wikipedia and Panoramio. Search landmarks in your surroundings and view them on a map, list, and on an Augmented Reality (AR) camera view: What you see is an annotated landscape, mountain names, landmark descriptions, and interesting stories.
The device displayed is a G1 Google phone, running Android.
This video has been produced by Mobilizy.com
This came via UgoTrade, and Tish Shute’s kinda neat interview with Robert Rice.
Yellow One Interviews Agent
http://www.yellow-1.org
Yellow One interviews an Agent after an operation.
Always nice to see that things continue to progress in this arena.
Johnny Lee: Wii Remote hacks
http://www.ted.com Johnny Lee demos his amazing Wii Remote hacks, which transform the $40 game piece into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer. A multi-ovation demo from TED2008.
The YouTube playlist I created a few months ago for this is called “Johnny Lee Is So Cool”. Man, it’s getting so that I barely even remember a time when being a nerd was UNcool… I’m sure my brother in law can remind me.
Mega64: EGM Metaphors
IGN Insider video
http://mega64.com/
ugo more like uggo if you ask me BUT I’M JUST SAYIN
Gee, I wonder what they’re alluding to? I wonder? Gee?
Pigbag – Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag
This was the theme for CityTV’s “The New Music” in the 80s, and it drove me insane for YEARS trying to remember the band’s name and song title. Doesn’t help that there are no lyrics and I only really remembered just tonight that it was the old theme for the show. Those stupid “sing the song into the mic” apps never find it. I’d still be looking for it except that someone had posted an old intro to the show from 1984 and in the comments the title of the song was mentioned. I love you Internet!
Super Mario Rescues The Princess: Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade
Mario finally overcomes his enemy and rescues the woman he has been fighting to save. Too bad the princess is not impressed by what she sees.
From the mind of Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy and American Dad comes a comedy too big for your T.V. Welcome to Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy!
Cuz he’s a funny guy.
Was this a bit random? Yes, yes it was… but my excuse was that it was collectively tells the story of our age and how different it is from life a decade ago. Was some of it a bit weird? Ah, well… depends. You should see what I edited out. I am a Jack-of-all-Strange in my spare time, after all. How do you think I got into virtual worlds in the first place?
