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Chromaroma Visualisations – Adding Color to Your Journey

Josh — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:59:43 +0000

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The Future of the Book.

Josh — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:35:31 +0000

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PSFK presents Future of Retail report

Josh — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:30:38 +0000

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Excellent insights, in my humble opinion.

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Text 2.0 – How Tablets Could Change the Written Word

Josh — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:26:10 +0000

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I suppose they already are changing the written word, but this is a different story. Check out a full writeup on Wired.com. If you find this interesting, you may also want to check out this post of the Wire magazine experience via a tablet – it’s impressive.

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Gaming Is Growing – The Pyschology Of Gaming

Josh — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:59:43 +0000

Gaming isn’t going anywhere. In fact, it’s growing and it’s growing fast. And it’s not just black-t-shirt-and-square-rimmed-glasses-wearing-with-dirty-facial-hair-stuck-in-their-mom’s-basement-playing-WOW nerds. Gaming is invading reality, and everyone is playing:

As of today, Farmville has 83,105,118 active monthly users and Mafia Wars has 25,080,678. Seriously?
Farmville has more players than Twitter has accounts
Two and a half years ago, Disney purchased Club Penguin for $350M – a game which at the time boasted 12 million accounts, 700,000 paid subscribers, and $40M in annual revenue. I’m sure the numbers are exponentially larger now
As of February 20th, PlayStation has 20M users worldwide and Xbox Live has generated $1 billion dollars since its 2002 launch
MyTown recently hit one million users after only two months in existence. And let’s not forget about Gowalla and Foursquare, and Causeworld
Gameloft brought in $170M in iPhone App Store revenue – and that’s just one company

Not only is gaming not going anywhere; you can expect to see elements of gaming incorporated into just about everything – or so says Jesse Schell, owner of Schell Games and Professor of Entertainment Technology at Carnegie Mellon University. In his talk, “Is Your Life Just One Big RPG – Design Outside The Box” at the 2010 DICE Summit, Jesse hypothesizes that beyond the fun element of gaming, it’s actually the psychology behind gaming that makes it so appealing.

Here’s Jesse’s talk broken into three parts, and it is absolutely incredible. It is worth the 25 minutes, I promise (thanks to Nicholas for this find):

Esquire’s Augmented Reality Issue Starring Robert Downey Jr. Is Live

Josh — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:15:29 +0000

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This is one of the more fun and interactive approaches to AR I’ve seen in awhile. Thanks to Neil for the article!

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John Mayer’s Augmented Reality Video Puts Fans in Picture | Underwire

Josh — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:45:39 +0000

“Here’s how it works: When you hold a printout of a specially designed augmented reality “marker” in front of your computer’s webcam, it triggers the start of Mayer’s 3-D music video. The webcam will then transmit images of your face into the onscreen tableau so you appear as an extra, perched behind Mayer as he sings about heartbreak and betrayal.”

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