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Augmented Reality: Swept Frequency Capacitive Sensing turns your skin into an input device 9 May 2012 | 05:01 pm
AR has a major usability problem – how to interact with the program – after all you can’t (easily) carry around a keyboard. MIT’s Sixth Sense uses a video camera to discern how you are interacting wit...
Augmented Reality: Suddenly it’s hot – are we reaching a tipping point? 18 Apr 2012 | 05:02 pm
I was really thrilled when I saw Google’s Glass, a video presentation about Augmented Reality using some tech mounted on a glasses frame. Then Oakley stated it was working on something like that, tyin...
Standalone DirectX no more – Starting with Win8 new DirectX versions will be OS upgrades 26 Mar 2012 | 08:51 am
Many folks have been wondering where the DirectX SDK (the developers package for writing DX applications) update has been. Microsoft had been churning them out like clockwork but – pfffft- nothing for...
Working with C++0X/C++11: Lambdas – part 3 – introducing closures 16 Feb 2012 | 09:21 pm
Closure In computer science, a closure (also lexical closure, function closure, function value or functional value) is a function together with a referencing environment for the non-local variables o...
Seamus Blackley launches iOS games company with a boatload of Atari veterans 7 Feb 2012 | 09:14 pm
I was wondering where Seamus would end up after leaving Creative Artists after eight years, but I was pretty sure it’d be game related. I was right. Apparently he’s been planning this a while because ...
Phantom Lapboard – still alive 9 Jan 2012 | 06:21 pm
It’s been as while since I reported on Phantom Entertainment (nee Infinium Labs) and I though I’d check up on them as I haven’t seen the Lapboard reported on it a while. It’s seems they are still aliv...
Working with C++0X/C++11: Lambdas – part 2 – Scope Capture 23 Dec 2011 | 12:32 pm
Since a lambda is a local function defined with a scope (i.e. inside another function) it can have access to the same variables that are in that scope. This is where the capture-mode comes in. (Perver...
Working with C++0x/C++11: Lambdas – part 1- Syntax 3 Nov 2011 | 03:25 pm
Lambdas are new to C++0x and if you are familiar with functors then you already have a good idea of how lambdas can be used. Where lambdas really become useful (in my opinion) are allowing you to enca...
