Spotted on /. and Tim’s News from the Future list, Roland writes – Researchers from Illinois and Florida are developing a networking system which will create virtual representations of real people to improve our knowledge. They will use artificial intelligence and natural language processing software to enable us to interact with these avatars. The goal […]
Some people are obsessed with twitter these days. We’re not endorsing it, but if you’re a twitterer and you want to stay up to date with the makezine blog, the craftzine blog, and the hackszine blog, then you can follow them on twitter and get updates about posts while mobile or on im. Whenever a […]
William and Andy write in with a physical controller for the virtual world – “Andy and I cobbled together a hardware control panel and wired it to its counterpart in Second Life. We like to think of it as somewhat “entangled.” The physical panel is built on top of an Arduino development board, and connects […]
Matt writes – “Over the last couple of weeks I’ve enjoyed playing with the Arduino hardware prototyping board. This week’s open-sourcing of the Second Life client came at exactly the right time for a new experiment. Here’s a video demonstration (people reading the feed, start your web browsers). On the left you’ll see an Arduino […]
I Make projects has an awesome DIY VR Bike simulator. Some PVC, a hacked PS2 controller, the Rockstar game “BULLY” on a projector, and a few parts from the workbench results in a crude but effective “virtual bike “Using an exercise bike equipped with a few modifications, you can effectively simulate riding your exercise bike […]
Lots of chatter about virtual worlds lately and what / if they’re good for, how they make money and what people are doing in them. My 3 interests in this space, at least for now… – Using virtual worlds to make 3D objects and then take the information out for a 3D printer – Link. […]
Volunteerlabrat has a clever DIY 3D scanner you can make using a web camera and fairly simple rotating table (the 3D scanner script written in matlab to take the pictures on the site too)… [via] – Link. Related: Homemade 3D Scanner – Link. Project Splinescan – Cheap 3D scanning – Link.
