Just came across this very interesting video from Clayton Miller about 10/GUI, his vision for an innovative 10 finger multitouch desktop interface. It’s definitely well worth the watch and proposes solutions to some interesting problems such as window manipulation and dealing with the fact that a large portion of the viewable area may be covered [...]
Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the Wii Remote
February 8, 2008 By 1 Comment
Check out this awesome video of how to use a Wii remote to for head tracking for desktop VR displays. I would love to see this implemented for gaming. The site contains instructions and software that you can download to test this for yourself. Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head [...]
My Cluttered Desktop
October 13, 2007 By Leave a Comment
This one is just to keep Alec happy. While I was away he tagged me for some meme or other that involved taking a screenshot of your desktop as it was with when you see that you’ve been tagged. I’m going to post the screenshot but I’m not going to tag anybody else. Feel free [...]
StarCraft 2 is coming. There goes my life!
May 21, 2007 By 4 Comments
I’m blatantly stealing Blizzards byline for the StarCraft II CGI announcement video but “Hell it’s about time”. I seriously doubt that there is anybody reading this who doesn’t have at least a passing knowledge of StarCraft so I’m going to save you the back story and just give you a quick run down: StarCraft II continues the [...]
Where's the consistancy Google?
August 26, 2005 By 6 Comments
Google have released two new pieces of software recently. One is a the upgrade to the popular Google Desktop Search and the other is the new IM client Google Talk. I’m not going to go into a review of the merits of both programs as that has been done to death over the last few [...]
One thing Linux has that Windows does not!
August 11, 2005 By Leave a Comment
There’s one thing that the Linux desktop has that Windows doesn’t! It’s the ability to scale the background image to a maximum size for the screen while keeping the aspect ratio of the image. Windows just stretches the image to fill the screen and warps it in all directions. What I want in windows is [...]
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