Earlier this year at GDC I had the opportunity to experience an early work-in-progress preview of Santa Cruz. I had good things to say about it: I had a chance to demo the Oculus Santa Cruz today at #gdc18! Quick take: this is the standalone headset the world needs. Clear…
(four thumbnails of some of the content linked in this post) Every once in a while, I'll see a retweet of this image explaining the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) by Stuart Riffle: While understanding this image requires a bit of a mathematical background to decompose what's going on, it's easy…
A primary contributor to a sense of active presence in virtual reality is low-latency, high-accuracy six-degree-of-freedom head tracking (6DoF). Similarly for augmented reality, tracking is a major piece in creating augmentations that are believably anchored in an environment. Driven by the observation that the experience is the product of mixed…
The third generation of virtual reality is imminent with early-2016 consumer product launches of both Rift and Vive. This generation's stack of tech (rendering, optics, display, tracking) is about to hit a sweet spot between affordability and immersion, helping our brain blur the boundary between simulation and reality. Some of…
Important Disclaimer: I am an Intel employee in a business unit not directly involved with Edison, whereby I had personally applied and and was granted early access to Edison resources and hardware and from which my opinions expressed below are not indicative nor representative of Intel Corporation. The Edison, first…
Google recently released a new camera app with a compelling feature called Lens Blur, simulating a shallow depth of field usually seen on photos taken from a dSLR. Traditionally, capturing a shot with a shallow depth of field translates to needing a nice lens with a wide aperture. High-end smartphones…
Museums are a curious environment for installations with gestural input. Recently, Trimpin and I collaborated on a piece called REDHOT. He prepared a baby grand piano with his usual assortment of solenoids, pluckers, magnetic resonators, and spinners — painted it a bright red, and then flipped the entire thing upside…
Introduction Late in 2013, Intel released a new Arduino-compatible board called the Galileo. The board is special in that it's one of the first maker-friendly platforms to run x86 alongside a full Linux distribution. In this respect, it's a lot like the Raspberry Pi with some additional Arduino friendliness mixed…