Future of AR & motion tracking, Hawaii Five-0’s crowdsourced format and of course awesomeness from the Superbowl.
Number 5) View from The Shard
The
Guardian’s London Panaroma microsite offers a fascinating interactive view over
London from the top of Europe’s tallest building. The site lets you switch
between day and night panoramas as well as listen to the sounds of the city
including the expected birdsongs, airplanes, Big Ben and police sirens. More
unexpected audio experiences from the London Sound survey include traders’ cries
at Smithfield’s meat market and squirrel monkeys calling out to visitors at
London Zoo.
Via Guardian
Number 4) Hawaii Five-0 choose the ending
Producers
of Hawaii Five-0 have come up with a novel way of encouraging people to watch
the show live, rather than recording it. They’ve shot a series of different
endings for the show and invited viewers to choose who they want ‘Danno’ to
book for having committed the murder of a university professor. The interactive
episode aired few weeks ago in the US and is due to be shown on Network Ten on
Monday, February 4, at 9.30pm.
Via SMH.com
Referred by
Tom Dodd
Number 3) Baltimore Blocker
As part of
their tactical advertising stunt to ‘cheer up’ San Franciscans with
(questionable looking) free Jell-o puddings, the brand has launched a cunning
Baltimore Blocker Chrome extension. The app filters out all mentions of
Baltimore’s triumph over San Francisco in the Superbowl final for their weary
fans and replaces them instead with ‘cute little critters’. According to the
write-up on Chrome, once installed ‘it replaces all words and images related to
Baltimore with stuff you’d much rather see. Like puppies. It’s just the thing
for blocking painful reminders of Sunday’s defeat’.
Number 2) AR gesture-control glasses
Technology
start-up Meta has created a wearable dual-screen 3D interface which enables
gestural input. The user wears a pair of stereoscopic glasses and when combined
with super low latency gesture tracking, can seemingly manipulate 3D objects
around them. It’s a super smart piece of tech – check it out in the concept
video below.
Via PSFK
Number 1) Beyoncé Spectacular A/V Superbowl
show
In Number 1
spot this week is Beyoncé’s breathtaking use of visual animations during her
Superbowl Half-time slot. At one point she performs choreographed dance
routines on top of kaleidoscopic animations of herself. At another a screen
lifts itself into a vertical position so she can dance alongside animated
versions of herself and her back-up dancers. The audio visual show must now set
the benchmark for integrating digital imagery into a live performance.
Via NFL.com
Referred by
Catherine Haddad
That’s it for this week. As ever, if anything screamingly awesome has been missed out, let us know in the comments below. Or feel free to ping any recommendations for next week to @jamescfilmer.
James
Filmer
Chief Innovation Officer
UM