April 6-10

Monday :: April 6, 2009
Today the virtual environments group led a discussion around our experiences in Second Life. We went over the results to the scavenger hunt... I didn't do too well. We also discussed the potential applications of a virtual environment.

Wednesday :: April 8, 2009
Today was the first day of the emerging visualization group. They began by presenting a summative PowerPoint presentation on the subject. I found it was particularly interesting that the origins of the emerging visualization was in military aplications; simualting attacks to gun turrets.

Friday :: April 10, 2009
Today we watched a Ted.com video on the "sixth sense." This proposed product seems to have a lot of potential and derived substantial conversation. I was concerned about the feasibility of projecting an image on any surface since a projected image's visibility is dependent on relative illuminance (i.e. it would have to be brighter that the sun to be visable in daylight). Beyond that I feel that this ability to obtain with such emmediacy would be very beneficial.