Holographic Text Messages

HOLOTEXT Messages are hip and cool!




Great video editing. =^)

When Money Attacks... video editing and holograms.

Enjoy!

Introducing TouchWall

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates demonstrates Touch Wall, a new hardware technology from Microsoft that creates a touch-based "white board" interface that lets users interact more naturally with data and applications on their computer.



When money attacks... walls.

Microsoft's future vision on manufacturing

Seamless transfer of data, touch interfaces and mobile computers - that's a future of manufacturing according to Microsoft.



When money attacks... manufacturing.

Microsoft Surface at the Rio in Las Vegas

When money attacks... touch technology in bars.

Harrah's Entertainment and Microsoft are unveiling a new interactive entertainment experience with the deployment of six Microsoft Surface units at the i-bar in Las Vegas' Rio on June 11. Surface.com.

Microsoft Surface Parody 2: The RIO

When money attacks... parodies... of touch computing.

This is a REAL piece from Microsoft! It's got a new audio track and a couple of shots were swapped and tweaked - It was BEGGING for parody!!! If you haven't seen the 1st one by Sarcastic Gamer, check it out - it is brilliant.

The Original Human TETRIS Performance by Guillaume Reymond

When money attacks... Tetris.

And people with too much time on their hands.

Kinetic Typography

"The rich expressiveness of animiated type has been explored for decades in film and design, however little has been done to undersand it effects and ability to enchance day to day communication. The Kinetic Typography engine is a Java software library created for rendering written content as animated text. Project by Johnny Chung Lee."



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"Example of Kinetic Typography created by Johnny Lee"



When Money Attacks... text.

Poor Man's Steadycam Example Usage - Two Cams

Oh my gosh! This is amazing!!!

"Example footage of using the poorman's steadycam - walk through at a radio station. Top cam is Poor Man's Steadycam. Bottom is an observer using a tripod which isn't nearly as good and clacks when the legs hit each other."

http://steadycam.org/



When Money Attacks... cinematographers.

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"Example footage of using the poorman's steadycam. Following a young girl through a variety of environments."



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"Example footage of using the poorman's steadycam. Following a squash player during practice."



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"Example footage of using the poorman's steadycam. Following a soccer player during practice."



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"Example footage of using the poorman's steadycam. Running down a hallway with the camera just a few inches above the ground."

Foldable Displays (tracked with the Wiimote)

Wow! This is super freaky!!!

This one combines motion, video, and touch technologies.


"Using infrared tracking and projection, we can simulate displays on flexible and foldable surfaces. This allows us to fit a large interactive display into our pockets.
The tracking is accomplished using the Wii Remote and IR LEDs
Johnny Lee - Carnegie Mellon University"



When Money Attacks... Surface video!!!

Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote

When Money Attacks... Nintendo's Wiimote


This is freaky fantastic! This is the future of all videogames!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We already thought Johnny was amazing, but he just did something so incredible, that he just redefined the videogame industry!!!

"Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen. This effectively transforms your display into a portal to a virtual environment. The display properly reacts to head and body movement as if it were a real window creating a realistic illusion of depth and space. By Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University."



The videogame industry just changed dramatically on 12.21.07 (with over 890,000 views on this video already)…

VR videogames with Wiimote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

In addition to that video, check out Johnny Chung’s other projects (in order to how they impact the videogame industry)…

Finger tracking with Wiimote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0awjPUkBXOU

Multi-touch white board with Wiimote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s5EvhHy7eQ

Foldable displays with Wiimote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhSR_6-Y5Kg

Poor man steady cam (more for the independent film industry):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztvjeJn-SQk

He also did research in kinetic typography, lots more steady-cam work, a giant slingshot, a haptic pen, moveable displays, and automatic projector calibration (the last two projects listed here paved the way for his more recent projects). Check all his videos out here:
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=jcl5m


Enjoy!

Moveable Projected Displays using Projector Based Tracking

"By using high-speed structured light patterns emitted by a project and embedded light sensors, we can discover the location and track objects in real-time. Project by Johnny Chung Lee - 2004"



When Money Attacks... Projector tracking!


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"A demonstration video of a technique used to automatically discover the locations of surfaces in the projection area using embedded light sensors. Project by Johnny Chung Lee - Carnegie Mellon University, 2003."

Create a professional Animation Studio for super cheap

When money attacks... your animation studio.

"Weekend Extra peers into the brilliant mind of Javan Ivey, an inspired animator, and someone who uses his keen intellect to save thousands of dollars that folks blow on an animation studio."



The animation at the end is worth waiting for.

- TAE

Puppy Plays Virtual Soccer

When Money Attacks... Puppies.

Check out this video of a puppy playing Virtual Soccer on a Reatrix shadow-based touch system.



"Dog going crazy for the interactive soccer ball on the Reactrix interactive floor display."

Enjoy!

Shirts with Video on them

When Money Attacks T-Shirts!

Check out this new technology from Philips.

It's called Lumalive. Basically, it allows all fabric to emit light, which means it can show videos.

Imagine a kid walking down the street wearing an episode of the Simpsons on his shirt. The future is now!



Enjoy!

Airhockey video game conferencing

When Money Attacks... Air Hockey

Airhockey video conferencing. Imagine playing an air hockey game at a distance. What other games could they do this with? A long-distance foozball game would be fun. Table tennis would also be a fun game, but the ping-pong balls would get lost. =^)




http://www.ict.csiro.au/page.php?did=222

Enjoy!

Reactrix - Floor Projection

Reactrix is a floor projection system. Projectors send a video down to the floor. Cameras tape what is happening over the floor. The result is that you can interact with the video that is displayed on the floor!

In these videos, people kick around batteries, step on fish, play pinball, make popcorn, push racecars, make water ripple, change shapes, play soccer, and flip tiles.

The point of these is to put advertisers logos on these and place them in stores, malls, and populated areas. People play the games for free and think about the advertiser's products as they interact with the floor. Click the names under the "Sample Portfolio" header:

http://www.reactrix.com/advertisers_details.php?id=9

Enjoy the videos!

SmackBook Pro - Laptop that you smack to switch desktops

The concept of dual desktops isn't new, but the concept of smacking your laptop in order to switch between desktops is quite different from most user interface controls.

Smackbook is a hack in the useless manager and motion sensor that is found in the Apple MacBook Pro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uvQTTPr9Rw

This is only 10 seconds long. Enjoy the video!

Professional Videogame Tournaments - Microsoft & Nintendo

The MLG (Major League Gaming) holds professional Video game Tournaments!!!

All their game tournaments seem to be with HALO 2 for the Microsoft Xbox and with Nintendo Super Smash Brothers Melee (SSBM, features Mario and Pokemon like Pikachu) for the Nintendo Gamecube.

http://www.mlgpro.com/

"Major League Gaming (MLG) is the largest organized league and international sanctioning body for the world's fastest growing competitive sport: professional video gaming. Recognized as the global governing authority for millions of competitive gamers worldwide, MLG’s ongoing professional video gaming tournaments have attracted competitors from over 28 countries."

Well, yeah. If you made candy-eating, sleeping, puzzle games, or TV watching into a sport then I'm sure those would become the fastest growing competitive sports.

Star Wars Holographic Technology exists today!!!

This video shows a projector that projects an image into thin air. That's right! Today is the day where the technology exists to project your image in the air, much like the Star Wars technology used by Emperor Palpatine, Darth Maul, and Darth Vader a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

http://www.io2technology.com/media/Helio_2006_v1.mov

Not only can you see the images, but you can touch them, you can move them, and you can interact with them. That's right, this technology will unleash vertical interfaces that are projected into the air, and you can touch them! You don't even need Tom Cruise's Minority Report gloves, and you certainly don't need his pool balls!

http://www.io2technology.com/technology/images

Enjoy the videos and images! Of special interest is that image of the fish. It looks so solid and real!!!

The Most Confusing Desktop Ever!!!

Here is a great example why "When Money Attacks" exists. A bunch of people got together and decided to figure out a new way to organize your desktop. They took the desktop into the third dimmension, and they studied how we organize our desks and tables in the non-virtual world (the real one). After analyzing how we organize our desktops, they came up with a click or stylus-based solution where you can toss around your software files, pile them up, and organize them in a way that is just as messy as your coffee table! The details of how this system works starts to get really complicated really fast. That is why this is...

The Most Confusing Desktop Ever!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ODskdEPnQ&feature=Views&page=1&t=t&f=b

Enjoy!