Projection Mapping Central is a community resource to learn about, promote and experience projection mapping. The website is curated by a handful of people researching projection mapping as PhD students. 

 

The website was created because we are frequently contacted by artists, marketing agencies, basketball teams and other random entities looking for projection mapping (spatial augmented reality) consulting. Unfortunately, as PhD students don’t have the time to aid in artistic or commercial endeavors. We started by compiling a list of projection mapping design firms, which turned into Projection Mapping Central. We invite the community to help make this the main resource for projection mapping.

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“Skills young people should be learning to be prepared for a career in 2020 include:

The ability to concentrate, to focus deeply.

 

The ability to distinguish between the “noise” and the message in the ever-growing sea of information.

 

The ability to do public problem solving through cooperative work.

 

The ability to search effectively for information and to be able to discern the quality and veracity of the information one finds and then communicate these findings well.

 

Synthesizing skills (being able to bring together details from many sources).

 

The capability to be futures-minded through formal education in the practices of horizon-scanning, trends analysis and strategic foresight.”

 

Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:

 

https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/what-are-the-skills-needed-from-students-in-the-future/

 

Via Gust MEES, Pierre Levy

Akonia Holographics, a startup in Longmont, Colorado, spent years trying to make holographic data storage work. It didn’t succeed, but now it found a new use for the same technology. The company now plans to use holography to make inexpensive transparent displays for augmented reality smartglasses.

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InterAccess’ Vector Festival returns with its fifth edition next summer and its curators have issued their annual call for work in and around the edges of

In the project »Design, Development and Dissemination of New Musical Instruments«, an interdisciplinary team of researchers and artists work on questions regarding the multitude of aspects of historical and contemporary electronic musical instruments. In close collaboration with international artists and in hands-on courses for students of the associated universities, prototypes of new musical instruments are developed. The emerging designs are evaluated regarding their versatility and expressiveness in artistic practice.

 

The project has the following sub-divisions

History and Documention of Musical InstrumentsOpen Development and DesignSpatial Sound Control and AuralizationThe Embodiment Of Sound
Via Jacques Urbanska

Created at the Bartlett School of Architecture / Interactive Architecture, Palimpsest uses 3D scanning and virtual reality to record urban spaces and the

“If you put 100 monkeys with typewriters in a room long enough, eventually you'll get Hamlet.”

 

A monkey on a typewriter would produce random letters. 6 random letters could be dhsllr or hamlet or klefim. Sometimes randomness produces sequences that seem not random. But the fact that snake has meaning but uvzmp has not is pretty much arbitrary. Some sequence of letters have meaning, some don’t.

 

Out of a random sequence of letters, it all boils down to probabilities. Out of a set of 26 letters, a sequence of 5 of them have about 1 / 12 billion (26^5) chance of being exactly the word snake. The probability of getting a certain word or sentence goes down as you add more letters.

 

So how about a full book ? The version of Hamlet I’m using has about 170k characters. Out of a reduced alphabet of 26 letters + 1 space (leaving out all the ponctuation), the amount of possible combinations for a set of 170000 characters is ridiculous (it’s a 240k+ digits figure).

 

Very unlikely, but theoretically possible. ....

 

Emmanuel Pire
http://lipsumarium.com

http://blog.lipsumarium.com

 

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Imbued with a sense of reverence, not to mention all those beautifully vaulted spaces, cathedrals and other sacred spaces can be stunning settings for art ...
Via Jean-Jacques Roland

Yegor Tsvetkov uses neural networks to show the dangers of digital access...

 

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Via Suvi Salo, Luciana Viter, THE OFFICIAL ANDREASCY

Facebook has a new home for original video content produced exclusively for it by partners, who will earn 55 percent of ad break revenue while Facebook keeps 45 percent. The “Watch” tab and several dozen original shows will start rolling out to a small group of U.S. users tomorrow on mobile, desktop and Facebook’s TV apps.

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Researchers at the University of Liverpool have found something that is quite interesting and might reveal a new way to look at art. They found that is it possible to check fo

Via Benedict Racaza

What we think we know about our brains is nothing compared to what we don’t know. This fact is brought into focus by the medical mystery of a 44-year-old French father of two who found out one day that he had most of his brain missing. Instead his skull is mostly full of liquid, with almost no brain tissue left. He has a life-long condition known as hydrocephalus, commonly called “water on the brain” or “water head”. It happens when too much cerebrospinal fluid puts pressure on the brain and the brain’s cavities abnormally increase.

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A group of researchers sought to understand what makes all viruses alike, and using that knowledge have come up with a macromolecule that may have the potential to treat multiple types of viruses and prevent them from infecting us.

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Our brain passively takes in dry information. However, when we are hearing or listening to stories, It is full

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The 18-24 crowd has used the internet as its primary source for news for several years. Now it is specifying “social media” as its main source of news, with that niche overtaking television for the first time.

The information comes from a study done by The Oxford University Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. It looked at consumers of news and information around the world for its “Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2016.” This is the fifth year it has issued such a report. It’s a fascinating read.

Via Manuel Pinto, talentosprecato

Different styles of martial arts have different "shapes".

Via THE OFFICIAL ANDREASCY

The 18-24 crowd has used the internet as its primary source for news for several years. Now it is specifying “social media” as its main source of news, with that niche overtaking television for the first time.

The information comes from a study done by The Oxford University Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. It looked at consumers of news and information around the world for its “Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2016.” This is the fifth year it has issued such a report. It’s a fascinating read.

Via Manuel Pinto

Distintos formatos como cine, televisión, videojuegos,cómics o redes sociales se usan al mismo tiempo para contar una historia, que busca la colaboración activa de los fans

Via Simon Staffans

After years of speculation, the search for the elusive creator behind the Bitcoin cryptocurrency may have reached a conclusion.

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Via Peter Mellow

A Dartmouth College team has created the first light-sensing system that reconstructs human postures continuously and unobtrusively, furthering efforts to create smart spaces in which people control their environment with simple gestures.

Via jean-luc scherer