F1, in real time

This is quite a neat approach to real time tracking. It could make for some very cool infographics as well.

Contributed by Jeremy Adirim.

Mobile Trends 2020

Rudy De Waele, co-founder of dotopen.com, reached out to a bunch of technologists to get five predictions from each on the future of mobile computing. The result is a ton of great insight into what we can expect the next ten years of computing to deliver.

Check out the slideshow here or view embedded version below (best viewed fullscreen).

A sample of predictions:

Non-humans (object, animals, places) will generate more data than humans. – Nicolas Nova (slide 16)

Thanks to Bluetooth and wireless display technology the mobile phone will literally be the only computer people own. – Stefan Constantinescu (slide 18)

Cellular voice dies – it truly becomes another form of data on next generation data networks. – Kevin C. Tofel (slide 30)

Mobile Trends 2020

via biskero

Augmented reality projection tracking

An augmented reality projection tracking system created by Zach Lieberman and Marco Tempest for the ‘Virtual magician’.

L.E.D. Wall tracks motion, entices shoppers

A shop in Montreal installed 35,000 LEDs outside their shop, and a couple of smart motion trackers. I think this is really rad, and I would no doubt go into this shop just because of this. Impossible to ignore. Tracks motion, and distance from the lights.

Sticky Light

Sticky Light is a project by Alvaro Cassinelli, Kuribara Yusaku and Stephane Perrin of the Department of Information Physics and Computing at the Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory of the university of Tokyo.  Sticky Light is a 3d tracking technology using a laser diode (low power), a pair of steering mirrors and a single non-imaging photodetector. The big difference to other tracking technologies is the fact that the Sticky Light doesn’t use a camera or projector. It can track the contour of objects and even augment real-time drawings. Or you could build games like air hockey or a pinball.

The piece is based upon a 3d tracking technology, using a laser diode, a pair of steering mirrors, and a single non-imaging photodetector called the “smart laser scanner”.

www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/perception/StickyLight

laser + sound:

The IQ font

Programmer Zach Lieberman created a custom tracking software for this interesting piece of Toyota viral. With a camera mounted high above the car, they filmed the driver racing around in circles, swoops, and lines. The car had colored markers that the software was able to track in real time, and the result was a full font set “drawn” by the car.