December ← 2009 ← Greenbush Labs

The Kids are Teaching Us

Dec

2009

Children can teach us quite a bit regarding user interface and design, especially with regard to 3D virtual worlds. I have been researching and prototyping direct manipulation (coined “immersive touch”) 3D virtual environments for many years now & direct manipulation certainly proves to be more intuitive for kids. The key points to a “menu-less” environment ...

The Mobile Immersive Learning Lab (Again)

Dec

2009

These match pretty closely my original MILL design prototypes. The difference remains that mine in light weight & mobile, call for a lower cost hardware & open source software

3D on the interactive surface (& Education) – Immersive Touch

Dec

2009

With the long awaited “10 inch Ipod Touch” soon to be rolled out – Is this laying the seeds for “Immersive Touch”?…. A run down of past posts: The Future Classroom (Oct – 2009) What is Immersive Touch? (Oct – 2009) Real Impact of the IPhone & Android (Nov 2007) A Bigger Touch (July 2009) 3D on the Interactive ...

The OpenWorld Repositories

Dec

2009

Having established the OpenWorld Repositories a few years ago it was our hope to start virtual world repositories focused on open source frameworks. This year we plan to expand on the concepts now that they are out of the prototype phase and make them easier for the regular user user to submit their work into ...

The Phone Friendly Business Card

Dec

2009

Sure most cards will have these QR codes in the near future

From RSS to Twitter – Google turns Feedburner into a Twitter Service

Dec

2009

In reference to my past posts regarding RSS & how the reader is evolving “into” Twitter. Below is a piece from ReadWrite Web regarding what Google is now doing with Feedburner and Twitter Google just announced that its FeedBurner RSS publishing service now supports automatic publishing to a Twitter account. If you’re among the many people who use the service Twitterfeed (like CNN, the WhiteHouse, ...

A Mouse-less & Menu-less Future

Dec

2009

A new post on develop-online.net caught my attention today - Bill Gates envisions Natal-esque PC future “Whether it’s making a gesture in a business meeting to zoom in on a chart, or try and look at what a house would be like before it’s built, this idea of the computer seeing 3D displays and voice interaction [shows ...