360cities: Build your virtual Cities now?

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很喜歡360cities，發現原來做 VR Photo 真是很不容易。我也做了一張香港海港的 VR Photo，按下面的圖象。你要有Quicktime，只要把滑鼠放在圖移左及移左，你便可以感受立體城市了。

Oh, I really love the 360cities. It’s the world’s virtual reality portal. The team took very high quality VR photos, so you can visit a place by moving your mouse, which let you interactively pan around and look at it in different directions. These 360 degree photos can change perspective so that you actually get the feeling of looking around, from the top to the bottom, from the front to the back, 360 degree. You must have Quicktime as plug-in to experience the VR Photo.

Click this VR photo created by Uta @ 2007July

As I am fascinated by 360cities , I created a VR photo of the Hong Kong Victoria Harbor. Of course, it is not as good as the professional 360cities team  : P . I just used mobile phone to take the photos and created this 220degree Quicktime virtual reality image(QTVR). Experience my VR photo by clicking the image above! Quicktime player is required. (P.S. put your mouse on the popup image, move left and right then! You may need some time to load.)

An Impossible Dream - Ratatouille

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切勿錯過 “Ratatouille“，必看的動畫電影! 很喜歡故事的主題，就是一隻老鼠的 “Impossible dream”。老鼠本是廚師/廚房最可怕的敵人，但他卻夢想成為一個出色的法國廚師，他能夠成功?看看就知! 是 Disney 和 Pixar 合作的作品，還有 The Incredibles 的 Director，必定很富娛樂性。不知香港幾時上映呢? 暫時欣賞一下它的 Concept Arts 和 Fun Facts!  記住看最下的 video，還有官方網頁!

Oh! What is “Ratatouille“(rat-a-too-ee)? It’s a French vegetable stew. The movie is about an impossible dream of a rat - to become a French chef. You should never miss this movie, a production from Disney+Pixar with the director of The Incredibles. The website is fun! I love all the concept art  too. Remember to watch the trailor and production videos at the bottom!

Read more: Ratatouille Fun Facts

9-Minute Preview of Pixar’s RATATOUILLE!

Disney Channel Ratatouille Sneak Peek

Ratatouille Rough Animation Test: Emile’s Magic Trick 

Microsoft Surface

微軟剛發表了一種新科技，名為”Surface“，看看官方的短片你使可知道更多。 真的可以推出或普及嗎? 那要恜目以待。

Is it because Bill Gates steps down from the full time role? Or the change of technology? Competitiveness between sliverlight and Flex/Apollo?  Or the advance developme of Flash? Or the return and the success of Apple/Mac/iPod? It seems that Microsoft became more visual and multimedia-fous than before.

Microsoft just introduced a new technology category and a user-interface revolution called “Surface“. Take a look at the official flash video and you will know more. Video speaks louder than words. But is it deliverable? We will know later.

My favourite scene inside the video is that you put a glass on “Surface” and there is words and bubbles around…..LOL!

Read more: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/29/microsoft-announces-surface-computer/

Teapotters - Publish & Share 3D

你可以在網上分享你的 3D 作品。加入 Teapotters! 你可以下載別人的 3D 模型，上載你的作品，建立你的網上 3D 資料庫，還可以把你的作品放在你的 Blog 內。下面有 Teapotters 的 tour video!
P.S. 第一次瀏覽時，你需要下載 plugin。發展:
(1) 公司: 與你的客戶在線 review 你的 3D 模型產品，及找到你想聘請的自由工作人。
(2) 學校: creative media/design 學生交流及發表作品。
(3) 自由工作人: 這是發表你的作品及建立你的 portfolio 的一個不錯的地方。You can share and publish your 3D models and experience them in real time with your friends/clients.  Join Teapotters! View favourite models created around the world. You can also download the 3D model, contribute to this real time database and paste your work on your blog. Full Screen display is available too! Watch the video tour below.
P.S. For the first time, you need to download plugin for model viewing

Possible development:
(1) Business: Good for product design development, team collaboration, online review your 3D design with your clients, approach potential freelancers for your business.
(2) School: Creative Media students can share their works with teachers, learn from each other, show your model for project presentation.
(3) Freelancers: Showcase your work and build your portfoilio online.

Infographical Movie of nuclear technology

 
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I love all the sexy and colorful visuals.  Here is a very good infographical movie illustrating  the principles of nuclear technology for a French energy company.

Hmm….For me, nuclear technology is quite dangerous somehow. I still remembered the horrible scenes of the Chernobyl Disaster  TV news report in 1986 when I was  still a little kid.  Anyone still remember this accident? Nowadays, most of our electricity is generated in this way already. Could be have other greener and safer alternatives?

Don’t miss the “Get the Glass!” interactive game!

你玩了 Get the Glass 沒有? 就是你不喜歡玩 games ，也萬勿錯過這一個製作出色的網上遊戲，你將會迷上遊戲內精美細緻的動畫及有趣的遊戲情節!

In fact, several design site has introduced this “Get the Glass“  interactive game. But I can’t help but featuring this game in my blog, which is in excellent design, cool animation and interactive motion graphics . It is an outstanding project created by a Swedish-based web studio - North Kingdom.

The story of the game: Got Milk? asks you to help the Adachi family steal milk from “Milkatraz Island”.

My favorite: I love the dice throwing, police car chasing, prison breaking and fortune card drawing inside the game! The animiation is absolutely awesome and gorgeous.

Control your Flash Game/Application with Wiimote now!

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我不是 Wii 的 Fan屎。但當我知道我們可以用 Wiimote (Wii 的 remote control) 來控制 Flash Game/application 的動作，真的很興奮。這是 MIT License 開放源碼 Project。如你有 Wiimote ，又想開發 Flash Game ，按 get the code ，下載源碼。下面是 Jens Franke 以 WiiFlash 實驗影片。

I am not big fan of Wii. But I am very excited when I know that “WiiFlash allows us to control our Flash games and applications with the revolutionary Wiimote“. How? You just need a Bluetooth enabled PC and a Wiimote.

It is an open-source project under MIT License. You can actually get the code at Google Code. Below is an experiment WiiFlash conducted by Jens Franke . It’s amazing.

Try it now!

 

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