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Remember the riots in 2002? Some protester threw a bottle and the police reacted? Here’s the police footage of that riot. Scenes from Nazi film footage has been added for ideological effect, but it’s otherwise pretty damning. If there was a bottle (no evidence of it), that wasn’t the reason. It was just the line […]

Among my many personality, um, traits, I have these cycles of inspiration that those who need to deal with me need to learn to love — or at least tolerate.
When inspired I do kick-butt work. But when my interest wanes, or something more interesting comes up, I tend to take a quick peek at it […]

In the Greenbush AR game that Mingfong and I are doing, one of the ways we are getting the content into “game form” is by giving the students these sheets to fill out. They’ve done so much research on the neighborhood that they have too much info to put into the game. So we came […]

I think this is the largest map area we can effectively use in the game. If you click on it, it will come up at the 600×600 pixel resolution I pulled it off of Google Earth at, but this displayed 200×200 pixel size is what the players will have to follow on screen, so I […]

Sound + Place = Freesound’s Geotags. check out this article on Creative Digital Music
Rather than dig through samples by abstract categories, you can use Freesound’s geotags to pull the exact ambience of certain parts of the world. It gives you the power to soak up the vibe of the beach at Playa del Medio without […]

Another year, another 12 months of adventure and uncertainty! Life is still pretty freakin’ good.
You probably want to get a gift for me, right? Well why wouldn’t you? We all like to give gifts. We just tend to be too busy or poor or otherwise occupied to follow through with that urge. I know that […]

Two projects currently underway at the Handheld Augmented Reality Project.

Mr. Virtuoso Teaches Art History with Augmented Reality (2005)
Virtuoso is a collaborative educational game designed to showcase the possibilities of the Handheld Augmented Reality (AR) framework. The game’s objective is to sort a collection of artworks according to their date of creation along a timeline drawn […]

Mingfong and I did a presentation on the Greenbush AR game at the”The Greenbush: Past, Present, Future” conference at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, May 2, at the Italian Workmen’s Club, 914 Regent St.
I’ve got the slideshow posted on my website here.
Mark says it looks like we might be able to get Mayor Dave to do […]

Just a pointer to the stuff I’m working on for AR games.
Directly:

working on one for the GLS conference that I describe on the ARgaming blog here.
working on one for the Greenbush neighborhood that I describe on here.
working on one for Flying Moose Lodge (and my dissertation) that I describe on my Love site here.

Indirectly:
I’m not […]

Other than still messing up the pronunciation of the game, I like it soooo much. Not as much as my roommate, who has already rolled up the moon, but enough to really enjoy playing. And I get a perverse thrill of calling friends over to hang out and “roll one up.” And while I typically […]

As a service primarily to myself, let me just document here that the proper Institutional Review Board forms for my summer research project are all submitted and ready to be approved. Yay.

My life is filled.

still trying to keep up with learning new video games in my spare time. Lately I’ve been trying Katamari Damacy (love it); Max Payne (not great, but somewhat compelling); Parappa the Rapper 2 (sorta fun in a freakish kinda way); and Frequency (really dislike it, but the remix mode could be as […]

Here are our notes from Tuesday’s GLS AR game meeting.
We’ve recruited David Deal (from Constance’s Thursday night class), and Andy Dayton (not sure where Matt got him, but we’re glad to have him), and Matt and myself (John Martin). We went over a brief history of the game, what it can and can’t do […]

My opinions, as a not-very-experienced gamer. Your mileage may vary. GameSpot may not agree. What the hell do they know?
PaRappa the Rapper® 2
From the description:
The original rap star is back in the house! See if you have enough rhythm to keep the beat with everyone’s favorite rappin’ puppy. Join Parappa and a cast of new […]