Robbie is doing great work blending novel volumetric and 'holographic' display techniques and new 3D gesture controllers like the Leap. Check out his Iron Man interface video linked off his Vimeo profile - can't wait for him to blend this in with more Pepper's ghost work. Keep an eye on this guy --- I'm sure we'll see lots more surprising stuff from him to come - he is guy who made a keyboard out of moss after all! ( http://robbietilton.com/blog/?p=1318 )
If anyone is interested in seeing another 3D display that looks like a hologram check this video out that our team put together: http://bit.ly/voxie-preview
Here's a try for some discussion. It seems like there actually is a great potential to try totally novel ways of approaching physically distributed networking and then developing services on such a network that use protocols for adding social applications that are not centralized.
If an app on people's phones could act as an always-on part of the distributed network that could be one component - another would be for small boxes to be attached to your home Internet router that are always on also acting as a part of the network. Individuals could have a personal filestore of message posts and photos that they perceive as just being available 'in the cloud' like facebook - but are actually stored in redundant chunks throughout an array of these mobile and stationary nodes that not only they own, but as well shared on their close friends and family's nodes.
For the static nodes connected to a router it could be a $35 raspberry pi + plan 9 operating system + tent.io protocol server - for mobile it's your iPhone/android running an app (perhaps plan 9/ inferno as a virtual machine( that uses local storage and acts as a client and server. Together with many of these nodes -- imagine at least one for everyone if the billion Facebook users --- and you'd have a new "meshwork" grid for decentralized (social) networking applications.
been thinking about the exact same thing. i actually ran a private wiki that worked this way with great success on the content side --- less people had the ability to hack on the code of how the site functioned, but it was available and open to this group.
i'm now looking to do this on a larger and more public scale --- i'd love to chat with you more about what you are trying to do and we could talk about possible best practices - perhaps this is the next evolution of the internet?
Hi there - yes I was out in Seattle for two accelerators actually - Microsoft Accelerator for Kinect powered by TechStars ( http://kinectaccelerator.com ) and Fledge - a conscious company incubator ( http://fledge.co ).
The Seattle hacker news meetup - which I've gone to at least once - maybe twice - seemed massive --- like 200+ people show up... I'd say its kind of an anchor of the tech community out there - kind of like the NY Tech meetup here.
Healthcare tech --- I know there's been a fair amount of people show up to my Kinect meetup group with that interest --- we should actually do an event on the topic - perhaps you'd like to help organize something? It's at http://meetup.com/volumetric . Meetups are a great way to find people to work with. Hackathons are even better.
My email is on my hacker news profile - feel free to get in touch to chat more about Seattle or healthcare tech. :)
If you are looking to start a meetup in your own city please make it under the Meetup Everywhere for Hacker News, that way we get a nice directory - and it's free!
It's rather empty but I'd like to get it going - please help: join and let's set a date and place!! I just got back from Seattle where the hacker news meetup is a big event - let's do the same in NYC!
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