I saw this demo video posted on Digg: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/637132/this_technology_will_blow_your_mind/
The second half of the video struck me as novel. Image based reconstruction of 3D environments is nothing new. Doing it using images mined from Flickr or other large databases is as far as I know.
I Googled for the project home page for Photosynth, intending to play with [...]
Category Archives: HCI
Seadragon and Photosynth
Monday, May 19, 2008
Spatial PulseAudio
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
In his interview about Pulse Audio in Fedora 8, Lennart Pottering mentions support for spatial sound as one of his future goals:
Spatial event sounds: click on a button on the left side of your screen, and the event sound comes out of your left speaker. Click on one on the right side of your screen, [...]
Android speech synth (where are you?)
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
I took a peek at the Google Android class hierarchy today. As far as UI goes, it looks like there’s great support for 2D/3D visuals. There’s some APIs for doing MIDI and sampled sound output. There’s even a class for doing speech reco.
What I don’t see is anything supporting synthesized speech output. That’s a [...]
