‘Whether it’s casting magic spells using your mind or relaying expressions in real time, EmoKey links the Emotiv technology to your applications by easily converting detected events into any combination of keystrokes. EmoKey is a nonintrusive, lightweight, background process that runs behind your existing games or applications. EmoKey lets you create profiles that define how [...]
Posted on: September 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Yesterday the winners of the Dusan Writer Second Life interface Contest were announced live on Metanomics. After a short overview of all the contestants, the finalists and final winner are as follows:
First place: Rheta Shan
A well deserved winner, she got the viewer and presentation done down to the last details. As major improvements I’d list [...]
Posted on: August 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
As you might know I’m one of the panelists in the ‘Interface Debate’ to be held on Juli the 22nd. The discussion organised by Dusan Writer and will be on the topics of usability, design and the role of the client in the adoption of Second Life. Afterwards the expert jury will also declare the [...]
Posted on: July 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Last week I posted on Dusan Writers contest to re-design the interface for the Second Life Client. Today Dusan announced the finalists and I’m happy to say I’m one of them with my ‘less = more’ design! I was excited and honoured to compete with 5 other excellent suggestions for improvement. Dusan created a complete [...]
Posted on: July 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »
A quick post on a ‘new’ application of the Papervision 3D technology. After we’ve seen Johnny Lee take the Wiimote to his interfaces for head tracking and touch screens, Seedylifestyle has found a way to put the Nintendo Wiimote to use in Flash (& browsers) through Papervision. The provided demo speaks for itself:
What excites me [...]
Posted on: June 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Recently Dusan Writer challenged the community to design a new user interface for Second Life. The emphasis in the contest seems to be a ‘light’ client, for new users to find their way in Second Life during the first hours/days. Dusan reserved 500,000L (roughly 1,830$) for the best design, 200,000L and 100,000L for the 2nd [...]
Posted on: June 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
With ‘Dazzle’ (click header image for a close up of the interface created by Torley Linden) now being the official interface skin in the Release Candidate (the test version of new Second Life clients) some Second Life users raise their concerns on this new look and feel. Amongst them is Trinity Dechou of Second [...]
Posted on: April 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
At the top of my ’shared item list’ in Google reader today was a short but interesting post on nano-technology in development which immediately caught my eye: The ‘Bionic Contact Lens’:
Makes “heads-up display” seem positively last century.
Though its far to early to say anything about the implications of this technology, I always get excited about [...]
Posted on: March 28, 2008 | 6 Comments »
