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GRiD

Project from Moment Factory recreates classic arcade game Pong, controlled by opposing pairs who themselves are the bat, using Lidar to track the players:

Inspired by the incredibly simple game mechanics of table tennis, the arcade classic Pong seemed like an obvious model for a first experiment. Imagined by Nolan Bushnell, developed by Allan Alcorn and brought to market in 1972 by Atari, Pong is one of the first and most iconic arcade games. But despite being revived and adapted countless times, (including Loren Carpenter’s famous 1991 crowd experiment) it had yet to be transformed into a human-scale game integrated with public space. The challenge was therefore to translate the mechanics of the classic 1970’s game into an innovative form by updating the gameplay technology.

GRiD is the culmination of a year or so experimentation using a LIDAR sensor. We saw this technology being used to track moving objects on self driving cars, and we figured we could use it to follow people in public spaces as well—so we ordered one. After writing some custom software to detect point cloud clusters (moving humans), we tested it in our black box and were impressed by its accuracy. With one LIDAR in the corner of the room, we could reliably track the position of a dozen or so people. So we set about turning our 40 x 60 ft. m black box into a giant game interface using Unity as a visual and gameplay frontend. GRiD evolved by iteration. Each time a group of Moment Factory employees came to play in the Blackbox, we collected their reactions and used them to inform the next iteration of the game. This allowed us to fine-tune the speed of the gameplay, and inspired us to spice it up by adding some unexpected effects!

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(Source: momentfactory.com)

takeovertime:

D-Type |  Jaguar Land Rover

Jaguar is re-starting production of the iconic ‘D-type’ race car, 62 years after the last example was built in 1956.the first jaguar D-type to be assembled by jaguar classic, an engineering prototype, makes its world debut at the salon retromobile show in paris.

just 25 new examples of the ‘D-type’ will be meticulously hand-built at jaguar land rover classic works in warwickshire, england. in 1955 jaguar planned to build 100 ‘D-types’. with only 75 completed, the british-automaker is now fulfilling its original ambition by creating 25  brand new, period-correct sports cars. the ‘D-type’, which won the le mans 24 hours race three times between 1955 and 1957, was powered by a six-cylinder ‘XK’ engine. every aspect of the sports cars built for clients from 2018 will be created to authentic, original specification.

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enochliew:

Kumiko

A Japanese technique of assembling wooden pieces without nails, more traditional found in dividers and sliding doors. 

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Holographic Whisper

Ultrasonic speaker from Pixie Dust Technologies is designed to emit sound at particular points in 3D space:

We propose a novel method of three-dimensional spatial audio rendering by expanding the ultrasonic phased array technique. We employ an ultrasonic phased array as a holographic acoustic generator to focus ultrasound at arbitrary three-dimensional positions. The sound pressure at the ultrasonic focal points is sufficiently high to radiate audible sound based on the self-demodulation effect in air. Consequently, the ultrasonic focal points act as audible sound sources. This sound-point method enables us to control aerial audio distributions more flexibly and more precisely in comparison with conventional superdirectional (sound-beam) loudspeakers. This method can generate and vanish the sound sources freely in air. These point sound sources can deliver private messages or music to individuals. This paper reports the principles of ultrasound-based loudspeakers, the system and control to achieve holographic audio focusing, evaluation of our proposed system.

More about the technology can be found here

More about Pixie Dust Technologies can be found here

(Source: digitalnature.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp)

tastefullyoffensive:

Happy as a dog in a donut. (via briellewestwood)

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