Don’t Fear the Internet Tutorials

Continuing the Internet self-education theme, “Don’t Fear the Internet” is another great resource bank of instructional videos that explain how the Internet works and teach some basic coding.

The project was cooked up by designers and it, in their words, will “help demystify html and css coding so you can prettify your blogs and quit asking your nerd friends for freebies!”

Check it out: http://www.dontfeartheinternet.com/

BELL / Chase no Face

Let’s face it… Kinect hacks continue to be cool. Here’s an elegant one for a music video for the singer BELL, which uses the motion senser and a projector to display elegant designs on her face.

All is OK GO

Another Chrome experiment from Google, All Is Not Lost features the band OK Go and members of the dance troupe Pilobolus. Filmed from below a glass floor, bodies move and press against the glass (in seafoam green unitards, no less) to form kaleidoscopic shapes and your personalized inspirational message to Japan.

The online video was first shot in 3D and made possible by HTML5 — hence Google’s connection and endorsement of Chrome as the preferred browser. While it kind of feels like it could have been cooler, the video is reminiscent of the captivating, multi-window viewing experiences of the Wilderness Downtown and Soul-Mirror.

Try it out with your own message: http://www.allisnotlo.st/

Contributed by Francois Grouiller

Flixmaster

Introducing Flixmaster, an HTML-5 video editor/player that could enable new ways to experience digital video online.

Since it allows users to produce online video content with a simple drag and drop system, this could be fun technology to explore for digital storytelling projects.

Contributed by Ralph Paone

8-Bit Invader – Video Game Projection Mapping

8-Bit Invaders is just a simulation, but seems like a stellar idea to project a video game on building. Making it playable would be even cooler.

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contributed by Sosia Bert

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.

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Socialnomics Stats Video

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

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