Augmented Reality hits the mainstream - A darling of technorati Marvel is bringing it home

Posted by Jon Peddie on August 6th 2009 | Permalink
Categories: Software Review
Tags: 3d marvell boeing avatar mattel startrek augmented reality

Jon Peddie

Immersive Technologies’ AR demo.If you’ve ever seen a yellow scrimmage line appear in the field of a football game, you’ve experienced AR (Augmented Reality), which is a term credited to Thomas Caudell in 1990 when he was with Boeing. Lots of companies and universities have experimented with it, and there are games being played on mobile phones in Japan right now (you point your camera phone at a place and on your screen is superimposed a graphics image of a treasure or a monster). At San Diego Comic-Con 2009 last week, Mattel showed a new line of action figures based on…

Seeing is believing - Putting photo editing products through their paces

Posted by Kathleen Maher on August 6th 2009 | Permalink
Categories: Software Review
Tags: apple microsoft google avi wmv mov quicktime roxio

Kathleen Maher

Roxio Photoshow is easy and fun. There’s something nice about having just a few options and getting something done quickly. Luckily, the templates, styles, and music, are pleasant and not too childish or silly as is so often the case in similar programs.Remember this: nothing is easy on a computer unless you stay within your boundaries. You like the Mac, stay there, you like Windows, stay there. Things might work out okay if you stay in your own backyard but then again they might not. What was a simple test of free online software can turn into a maddening exercise in…