We Finally Figured Out How To Make Realistic CG Mud
Jurassic Park had just six minutes of computer-generated dinosaurs in it, compared to modern blockbusters which can…
Virtual 3D Oil Painting Perfectly Simulates How the Brush, Paint, and Canvas Interact
Nvidia and Adobe teamed up to develop a 3D-painting app that is sure to become an essential tool for modern day art…
Finally, A Convincing 3D Display That Doesn't Require Glasses
Viewing 3D content without glasses or goggles has proved to be one of the toughest things for interface designers to…
The One Big Problem With VR
At this week’s SIGGRAPH design conference, I spent two days wandering among basketball players wearing Tron-like motion…
The Haptic Tech That Could Let You Touch The Person You're Skyping With
I was skeptical. Two cubes sat side-by-side, looking like stripped-down 3D printers. I sat in front of one as…
You Can Feel These Plasma Holograms Made With Femtosecond Lasers
With each passing year, engineers are getting closer to recreating the 3D interface technology that pop culture has…
This Clever Carpet "Printer" Brushes Pictures Onto Your Rugs
You know that incredibly satisfying feeling of seeing a freshly vacuumed carpet with the fibers all perfectly upright…
Microsoft's Newest Trick Turns Ordinary Cameras Into Baby Kinects
Depth cameras aren't new technology, but shrinking them down to the size of a smartphone so that it can see in 3D the…
Disney Developed Software To Revolutionize Macy's Parade Balloons
The reason your favorite cartoon or movie character hasn't appeared in Macy's annual Thanksgiving Day Parade isn't…
Unbelievable Display Technology Uses Levitating Particles as Pixels
The Pixie Dust display uses sound waves to create images and animations from real particles that appear to float in…
Microsoft Has Invented a Way To Embed Data in 3D Printed Objects
Say you have a 3D-printed item you're selling. Maybe you slap a barcode on it that identifies what it is, where it…
How Disney Is Using 3D Printing To Give Robots Soul-Piercing Eyes
Some toys look like they're about ready to come to life and stab you. And if Disney has anything to do with it, we're…
A Revolutionary All-Seeing Camera Lens That Puts the Lytro To Shame
It hasn't exactly been a runaway hit with consumers, but on a technical level the Lytro camera introduced some…
A Sneak Peek At the Mind-Boggling Future of Computer Graphics
Computer graphics have come a long way since a T-Rex ate that lawyer in Jurassic Park. But if these glimpses of what…
Flash Memory Capable of Playing More Than a Few Movies at a Time
Last week's annual SIGGRAPH conference was, as usual, a place where dazzling visual displays were commonplace. But…
Magic Volumes Have Three Different Magic Shadows
The uncanny Photosketch tool was not the only magic software tool debuting at Siggraph Asia 2009. These amorphous…
Pull-Navi System Gives Directions and Dumbo-Like Ears
I used to be excited about iPhone turn-by-turn navigation, but the Pull-Navi system (straight from Tokyo University of…
Scientists Work Out Way to Capture 3D Texture Info in a Flash
Click to viewSome scientists at University of Manchester in the UK and Dolby Canada in Vancouver have worked out a way…
Microsoft's "Unwrap Mosaics" Add Mustaches (and More) to Video
Imagine being able to put a handlebar mustache on Grandma in a home video as easily as you could with Photoshop and a…
Bouncing Star Glowing Smart Ball Ushers In the Tron Age of Sports
Forget Beijing—the future of sports is appearing at SIGGRAPH 2008 in LA. This softball-sized Bouncing Star rubber ball…