Using Your Hands to Light Paint with Kinect Graffiti

Jean-Christophe Naour’s Kinect Graffiti uses Microsoft’s Kinect to respond to gestures creating real-time light paintings.

via laughingsquid

Socialnomics Stats Video

Kinetic type video of social media stats from Erik Qualman’s Socialnomics v3 book.

Google+

Here it is finally, Google’s version of Facebook: Google+

Read the official Google blog post here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/introducing-google-project-real-life.html

Or take a video tour with sentimental music here: 

Toronto Tourism Cheating Wall

Toronto Tourism has created a “cheating wall” where visitors can see via video screens into Montreal, and vice versa.

Equipped with video and audio, it’s a live portal enabling people to even chat with their counterparts in the other city.

http://www.marketingmag.ca/news/marketer-news/torontomontreal-go-to-the-wall-in-new-tourism-campaign-28905

3D Teleconferencing

Using four Kinect sensors and some heavy duty realtime processing, 3D videoconferencing has been set up at University of North Carolina.

3D is the latest gimmick when it comes to watching TV, but this is something beyond novelty. Apart from making the “tele” part seem more realistic, the system can use “mixed reality” to track eyes in 3D space. This opens up the door to more serious applications not just about how we’re perceived, but about how we blend our natural communication methods with digital ones.

http://www.vizworld.com/2011/06/amazing-kinect-driven-3d-telepresence-system/

Contributed by Kevin Jeong

Dance it like you mean it

Dance Writer translates text into mesmerizing movement. Originally an iPhone/iPad app, it’s now an online tool for sending elegant animated messages.

Where’s the value in this? Sure, it moves slowly and is probably best reserved for short messages. But there’s something captivating about it and the possibilities of visual storytelling.

The Museum of Me

Everyone likes to look at pictures of themselves, right?

The Museum of Me for Intel is a great example of facebook integration that creates a personalized virtual museum exhibit out of our lives as we construct them in social media. http://www.intel.com/museumofme/

Contributed by James Craig

3D Interactive Music Video for Chrome

“3 Dreams of Black” is an interactive film by Chris Milk for Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi’s ROME album.

Chris Milk was also the director behind Arcade Fire’s amazing Chrome-experiment-music-video “Wilderness”.

For “3 Dreams of Black” Milk used WebGL technology which brings hardware-accelerated graphics to the browser, without the need for additional software.  Chrome is one browser that supports WebGL.

You can read more about it on Google’s blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/3d-dreams-in-modern-browser.html

And can view and experience the video here:  http://www.ro.me

More great examples of the in-browser 3D capabilities of WebGL are located here: http://www.ro.me/tech/

Contributed by Francois Grouiller

Inspiration for the Creative Process

Justin Gignac, artist and advertising art director, talks at PSFK about the inspiration behind some of his wonderful web-based ideas.

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/05/10/justin-gignac-psfk/

Pop up theater for watching YouTube

All you need is a wireless network to hook up your smartphone and watch YouTube videos in this cool, pop up outdoor theatre. Plus the structure itself kind of resembles a jungle gym.

Via Fast Co. Design