Holographic Google Earth from Nicolas Loeillot on Vimeo.
How cool is this? Google Earth projected into the air as a 2D hologram? From the Google Earth Blog:
The technology comes from UbiqWindow and lets a computer screen be projected in mid-air. They have devised a touchless way to interact with the "hologram", and Google Earth is a great way to show off its capabilities. it's not a 3D projection, just 2D. But, it sure looks cool.
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However, it does not look like the hologram is actually projected into the air yet! The video makes it difficult to see just what is happening, but I keep seeing vertical lines with differing light levels on either side, indicating a glass prism of some kind being used as a projection surface. If you watch the video of the pretty young "assistant" on their website, notice that she materializes in the same location and "disintegrates" within a rectangular boundary; and in the shots from the reverse angle one can see the reflection of the camera operator --- the "assistant" is projected into a glass prism, like most holograms.
I had imagined using a modified light-pen as an interface; but it appears that the computer's ability to track finger-movements is quite adequate.
Projecting the globe into the air would have allowed the controller to zoom in and out almost indefinitely while an audience watches from any number of angles. But I suppose a projection into an appropriately large prism would be almost as rewarding, and would not diminish the tool's effectiveness.
I didn't hear any candidate being endorsed. All the kid said was "VOTE!" That is not indoctrination, its civic duty.
Definition:
Duty – noun, plural -ties.
1. something that one is expected or required to do by moral or legal obligation.
2. the binding or obligatory force of something that is morally or legally right; moral or legal obligation.
(Personally I think this is cute. The kid is a little annoying, but what four-year-old isn't a little annoying?)
I didn’t hear any candidate being endorsed. All the kid said was “VOTE” That is not indoctrination, its civic duty.
Definition:
Duty – noun, plural -ties.
1. something that one is expected or required to do by moral or legal obligation.
2. the binding or obligatory force of something that is morally or legally right; moral or legal obligation.
It's not any less creepy because it's an American flag rather than another country's.
the video is cute, but i'm tired of being bashed over the head with the voting thing. my vote doesn't actually count, thanks to the electoral college, and after 2000, i have no plans on voting again until we move to direct elections, like most of the rest of the civilized world.
Back to the topic... My front door is about 20 feet from my polling place. I think I'll lose my citizenship if I don't vote in this election.
I like to see a kid that supports america. I think it means that his parents are probably telling him that right sort of things. :-)
I just kinda glossed over the rest.
http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/upload/2006/06/1892_pledge_of_allegiance2.jpg