Virtual Show Room

Weightloss video

2007-07-19T15:48:00.000-07:00

Psychologist Dan Gilbert

2007-07-16T11:12:00.000-07:00

Quote: "Psychologist Dan Gilbert challenges the idea that we'll be miserable if we don't get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel real, enduring happiness, he says, even when things don't go as planned. He calls this kind of happiness "synthetic happiness," and he says it's "every bit as real and enduring as the kind of happiness you stumble upon when you get exactly what you were aiming for."

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/97

Video worth watching!

VIRTUAL ME - EA and Endemol

2007-07-05T05:46:00.000-07:00

Press release on a partnership between a French TV company called Endemoi and the EA avatar technology called "Virtual Me".

<http://www.electronicarts.fr/news/12225/>

"Virtual Me combine la technologie de création d'avatar à la pointe de la technologie développée par EA aux formats télévisuels populaires d'Endemol afin d'offrir aux utilisateurs un système révolutionnaire leur permettant de se rencontrer, de s'affronter et de socialiser dans des mondes numériques en ligne. "

Video of Play Station 3 Virtual World

2007-03-12T16:15:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBiOUp22NLs

Fitness game on sears.com

2007-03-07T07:20:00.000-08:00

New Game on Sears. All about Fitness!

Go to the bottom navigation on the sears.com site to play the game. Have fun.

Fitness Magazine and Ladies Home Journal

2007-03-07T06:16:00.000-08:00

Lots of traffic on this site generated with Virtual Models. Fitness Magazine and Ladies Home Journal are using the Virtual Dressing Room with garments from Lands' End to see how they will look with 10 pounds less!

http://www.lhj.com

http://www.fitnessmagazine.com

3D avatars Meez and IMVU - March 30, 2006

2007-03-01T10:09:00.000-08:00

Interesting blog article from Clickable Culture March 30, 2006

Collaborate.com collaborator David Coleman reveals some interesting details about Meez.com, a newly-launched online service that allows users to download images of personalized avatars (I wrote an earlier report here). According to Coleman, "Meez has received over $4 million in venture funding. [Meez CEO Sean Ryan] got his idea from watching people in Korea (the number one connected country on the planet) interact with each other...Ryan plans to make money by offering users the chance to have their avatars wear licensed brands...and premium clothing designs for a fee." Four million bucks for a business plan based on branded, customized avatars. It's like 1999 all over again.

The closest competitor to Meez is IMVU, an already-established service that features truly 3D avatars, themed chatrooms, and user-created content. IMVU is, in my opinion, vastly superior to Meez in its presentation, usability, and creative opportunities. The differentiating factor between the two services at present is that IMVU does not (as far as I know) offer users the chance to download images of their avatars for use on online communities. It would be a trivial effort for IMVU to offer this functionality if it hasn't already done so. At this point, Meez would be playing some serious catch-up to the tune of four million dollars.

Comment from Meez, CEO.

I'd say that we just launched into beta this week so we still have a long way to go, but that we're quite different from IMVU. First is that we're entirely web-based, so there is no need to download a client and we can work across PC, Mac and Linux platforms. Second is that we offer licensed content such as MLB and NHL merchandise, in addition to the large set of items wse produce ourselves. Finally, our goal is not to have users come to yet another destination site - we focus on exporting the Meez so that they can work with services the user already is a member of, such as MySpace, blogs or IM services. IMVU does great stuff - it's just a different type of company.

Thx, Sean Ryan
CEO, Meez

Comment posted by Sean Ryan
on April 1, 2006 @ 6:24 pm
about the entry 'Meez' Handed $4M

Another comment:

It's impressive that Meez snagged licenses for official (virtual) MLB and NHL apparel--obviously you've done what IMVU and Second Life haven't (apparently) been able to achieve in terms of offering licensed content. However, there are other branded avatars available through other services (e.g. imstar). It will be interesting to see how Meez competes with a force the size of Yahoo (which has offered Chrysler-, Adidas-, and FCUK-branded avatars) in that department, for example.

As for Meez-created content, I think it's important to offer an initial batch of decent customization options from the outset (as Meez has done), but ultimately do you really want to be in the content-creation business? There, Second Life, IMVU, The Sims all seem to leverage user-created content effectively... while 90% of user-created content is crap, you still don't have to pay for that other 10%.

Comment posted by Tony Walsh
on April 2, 2006 @ 10:06 am
about the entry 'Meez' Handed $4M

OpenID Video

2007-02-27T07:58:00.000-08:00

Great overview of openID and how it works.

Trysummer or Tryvertising?

2007-02-20T11:36:00.000-08:00

Virtual Models are becoming trendy, and in particular My Virtual Model (disclosure: MVM is the company where I work). To support this view, let me draw your attention to the new buzz words poping up all over the place.

Take TRYSUMMER and TRYVERTISING for example.

Here is an excerpt about TRYSUMMERS:

As all things digital and virtual are so much easier to sample, TRYSUMERS and the online space are a match made in heaven. Expect a renewed interest in lifelike avatars, which can try out and try on anything on behalf of their real world alter-egos.

The operative word here for MVM is "lifelike" avatars.

Follow the link to read a recent publication by trendwatching.com explaining the new buzz word "TRYSUMERS".

If you scroll down past the middle, you will see the reference to My Virtual Model as well as some screen grabs.

trendwatching.com is an independent and opinionated trend firm, scanning the globe for the most promising consumer trends, insights and related hands-on business ideas. For the latest and greatest, we rely on our network of 8,000+ spotters in more than 70 countries worldwide

And how about TRYVERTISING

Here is another link about TRYVERTISING on Trendwatching.com.

Which word is better? Looks like its time for the community of users to speak out! Update in a month.

HowManyIdentities

2006-12-14T15:30:00.000-08:00

HowManyIdentities, originally uploaded by saumier.

Where is My Virtual Model in this maddess?

ecard - Sears / Kmart

2006-12-14T15:27:00.000-08:00

ecard
Originally uploaded by saumier.

Holiday shopping and planning made easier on ReadySetHoliday.com

Send a free Holiday Ecard. Brought to you by http://www.mvm.com (the company I work for, in case you hadn't guessed :-).

Sears - Home Entertainment

2006-12-14T15:20:00.000-08:00

Entertainment
Originally uploaded by saumier.

View televisions, DVD players, electronics, home audio, computers and furniture for your Home Entertainment room. Brought to you by http://www.mvm.com.

http://searsmve.mvm.com/sears_mve_ctx/jsp/handlers/main/mvmvdrhandler.jsp?roc=sears_mve&pop=GEN

Lowes - Creative Laundry Spaces

2006-12-14T15:18:00.000-08:00

TechRoom_12x10
Originally uploaded by saumier.

Creative Laundry Spaces - An interactive planner and workbook for the restless renovator in 3D! Brought to you by http://www.mvm.com.

http://www.restlessrenovator.com/

Try-on garments with semacodes!

2006-11-13T09:31:00.000-08:00

A very interesting development in the barcode space.

Imagine a user walks into a clothing store, walks up at a garment, and with a simple click on their phone visualises the garment on their Virtual Model. The user then clicks clicks their phone again to purchase the garment - and walks out of the store using their existing "recycled" shopping bag to carry their legally purchased products home.

Introducing the "semacode"! Place a semacode printed label on each garment and all the user has to do is take a picture with their camera phone. Phones equiped with a small software to interpret the semacode will open up the phone's web browser and display the garment on the screen of the phone. "Semacode works by embedding a URL (web address) into a sort of two-dimensional barcode which looks like a dense crossword puzzle (pictured) — called the tag. The SDK software contains the capability to detect and decode the tag very rapidly with the camera on your phone. It extracts the URL and sends you to that address using the phone's built-in browser. "

Here is an example:

I actually tried this with my phone (Nokia 60 series) and it worked like a charm. Now the question remains, what URL link will retailers place on their garments? Of course the right answer is a link to try-on the garment using My Virtual Model technology.

My Virtual Model's new Badge!

2006-10-29T19:08:00.000-08:00

Men are not yet available, so I created the Virtual Model of my wife Sylvie. Here she is sporting her autumn look!

www.mvm.com

Weight Loss Community

2006-08-17T08:31:00.000-07:00

My Virtual Model has a grass roots community of people seeking to loose weight. I am putting together a photo gallery of people's blogs to help us understand what this community is all about.

From my observations so far, it is clear that people in this community want to go shopping, and do go shopping using My Virtual Model's virtual dressing rooms. Not only do they want to shop for plus size garments, but they also want to start shopping for smaller sizes based on progress towards their goal figure. This quote is from a blog that illustrates how people distinguish between plus size VDRs that offer clothing for Plus sizes, and regular VDRs that only offer smaller size garments. This shows how a "long term" relationship is valuable with these shoppers, and how MVM can develop a relationship and even help people return to shop as they approach their goal weight!

From blog http://blog.designedlykristi.com/?p=166

"The pics I pasted together from a site call My Virtual Model. These images came from the Prevention Magazine one, though I have played with all three of the "All Sizes" variety. I'm not quite [clear if all] of them would work for me, though once I hit my goal weight I'm home free and can use any of them. Thanks for all the kudos too! I really helps keep yourself motivated!"

In the quote above, the "All Sizes" reffers to how we categorize our VDR sites on our home site. Today, most of the VDRs are not under "All Sizes" but under "Regular sizes". The quote above illustrates the excitement about returning some time in the future to shop of all of the "Regular sizes" stores. If MVM could help people track their goal weight and remind them to return to MVM for shopping by developing a personal relationship with them, a significant and loyal community could be built. On the other hand, it looks like this community is so motivated that they will come back to go shopping even without any reminders from MVM!

Visual Search - using a camera and Google?

2006-08-01T06:11:00.000-07:00

Here is a quote from the "Cool Hunter":

"Designed by a young UK designer, Pei Kang Ng, Google3D is meant as a viable business proposal for Google, five to ten years from now. With Google3D, the idea is literally, to bring the conveniences of the search engine to your fingertips. Now, you can find out things on the move - wherever and whenever you want to - just by taking a picture. You don't even have to type!"

This is Pei Kang Ng site.

http://www.ngpeikang.com/

In my opinion, this device will first appear in the notoriously popular iPod equiped with a camera and wireless link.

Note that this concept of visual search is not the same approach as our MVM Visual Search. Our notion is that you build a model (in 3D or 2D) of what you are looking for to drive your search. Your model is then translated based on the model's attributes and specific domain knowledge enabling products that don't even have a photo to be found. The trouble with a photo is that the software has no idea what is important to the user. Unless you are looking for an exact match. The other difference is that our approach in feasible today, and not only in 5 to 10 years from now!

2006-07-31T20:14:00.000-07:00

Day of the Longtail

Excellent and comical look that puts the hype around the Long Tail into perspective! This is really worth 5 minutes of your time.

Articles on the MVM-Higgins-BestBuy Demo

2006-07-27T11:16:00.000-07:00

Artices on the MVM-Higgins-BestBuy demo at the Identity Mash-up Conference in June. This conference was organised by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at the Harvard Law School in Boston. Also a good explanation of Parity Inc.

The prompt of doom (or is that despair?) by ZDNet's David Berlind -- Having recently switched computers because of a hard drive failure, I can completely relate to Tim Bray's angst over what I'll call the prompt of despair (he calls it the prompt of doom): the one where your browser asks you if you want it to remember the password your putting into some site for you. [...]

Passion, common vision drove Higgins to success. Not big vendor agendas. by ZDNet's David Berlind -- There's something special about witnessing innovation as it happens right in front of you. To a large extent, that's what this week's Identity Mashup Conference at Harvard University was about. Sure, there were a lot of interesting panel discussions that dove deep into all sorts of thought-provoking issues that were relevant to identity. But, [...]

MVM's new game - create your dorm room at Sears

2006-07-21T13:41:00.000-07:00

Sure I may be a bit old to go back to school, but I am proud to show you my dorm room decorated with real products from Sears. Have fun here!

Will Wright's new game - Spore

2006-07-21T13:12:00.000-07:00

Will Wright, creator of SIMs, the most popular game of all time, has launched his new game called "Spore". Read about it here.

Second Tense: Googlezilla vs. Linden Labjira

2006-07-12T12:02:00.000-07:00

Here is a good overview of the exciting and tenous place Second Life has in the metaverse race. The author of this blog have also opened a full time consulting job to provide services in Second Life.Second Tense: Googlezilla vs. Linden Labjira

Virtual Model on MySpace

2006-06-13T07:07:00.000-07:00

Another example (thanks to Frank) of how people in web communities use My Virtual Model to present themselves.

Scroll down till you see the model on the right side. Note that the person does not want to show photos or use a web cam, but is excited and pround about sharing her current Virtual Model and a slimer one with several pounds less!

http://www.myspace.com/country4life

THE GENERATIVE INTERNET

2006-06-12T10:34:00.000-07:00

THE GENERATIVE INTERNET
by Jonathan L. Zittrain

Here is the link to the Harvard Law Review article:

http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/119/may06/zittrain.shtml

Zittrain presents his case for describing the internet as a "generative" phenomenon and goes on to describe how mounting internet security problems threaten to engender a consumer backlash against the openness of the net and hence its generativity.

Web 2.0 - The dark side?

2006-06-12T10:28:00.000-07:00

Intersting blog by Nicholas Carr linking to some articles on how the dream of Web 2.0 may be in danger.

http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/06/hear_no_evil.php

Worth reading in preparation for the Identity Mash-up conference next week at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society!

Identity Mash-up Conference June 19 - Car Pool!

2006-05-29T07:50:00.000-07:00

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is holding a fascinating conference on Identity. This conference will be in Boston from June 19-21.

Here is the link to the conference:

http://www.identitymash-up.org/

Louise Guay will be presenting MVM's Virtual Identity and MVM will be present in force. The first 2 days of the conference, Monday and Tuesday, will be the presentations followed by discussion and debate on Wednesday.

I am coordinating a car pool for those going down - so be sure to let me know if you want a lift by leaving a comment on this blog. We are planning to rent atleast 1 car for departure on Sunday afternoon, June 18, to Boston and return to Montreal Wednesday late in the evening of June 21.

Reuben Steiger launches "Millions of Us"

2006-05-08T13:07:00.000-07:00

When I first contacted "Second Life" I had the pleasure of speaking with Reuben Steiger. When he left Linden Labs, the makers of Second Life, to found his own company I was pretty sure he was up to something special.

Now it is official! Last Thursday his new company "Millions of Us" was launched and is already in the news. "Millions of Us" is a company to help real world companies get the upper hand in virtual communities! Read the news article - Online spaces: The new frontier. It is well worth your "real" time :-)

Some other companies offering avatars

2006-05-04T07:58:00.000-07:00

Comverse <http://www.comverse.com/>, based in Wakefield, Mass., is one of the first U.S. companies to jump headlong into the avatar market.

Other sites where avatars can be obtained are:
Avatarity <http://www.avatarity.com/>,
HotAvatars.com <http://www.hotavatars.com/>,
Avatara.com <http://www.avatara.com/avatars/>.

Les mondes virtuels génèrent des emplois bien réels

2006-05-02T13:48:00.000-07:00

Article du cyberpresse.ca sur "Second Life" en français.

Entropia: another MMORPG hyping the real world currecy exchange

2006-05-02T10:01:00.000-07:00

Space Station in Entropia

Article Link: A real world cash card that allows gamers to spend money earned in a virtual universe has been launched.

Seems like more and more MMORPGs are attracting the attention of gamers by anouncing real world currency exchanges.

What I find particularly interesting is that "Currency Exchanges" remove the barrier between virtual worlds enabling users to harness their treasures and pool resources, without being totally dependant on a single silo.

Actually there are 6 companies that are well know Secondary Market companies that offer INTRA-METAVERSE platforms to help gamers manage their virtual fortunes (reference for MVM employees).

IGE - Currency speculator
Gaming Open Market - Currency exchange platform
PlayVault - Free game to game currency transfer service
eBay - Auction site
PlayerAuctions.com - Account, currency and goods trading site
Virdaq - Account, currency and goods trading site

Perhaps the most interesting is PlayVault:

"One value added service provider that has formal agreements with publishers is PlayVault. Through PlayVault, players can transfer virtual currency from one game to another. With the ability to migrate their currency that they have spent hours amassing online, players are more inclined to try new games. The service is free to players. PlayVault receives a referral free from their partners."

Conference on virtual worlds!

2006-05-01T14:55:00.000-07:00

This Thursday, May 4th, there is an SDForum conference on virtual worlds geared towards VCs, entrepreneurs and
marketers.

Of course, such a conference would be incomplete without it's virtual half: the event will also be streamed live on Sheep Island in Second Life!

Speakers:

Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale will give a keynote
Electric Sheep Company's CEO Sibley Verbeck
New World Notes blogger James Au
Millions of Us CEO Reuben Steiger
Philip Torrone is making a "News from the Future"-style VW video
Others...

See I'll see you on Sheep Island in Second Life for what looks like a promising conference!

BTW, my SL in world avatar name is Primo Levitt.

Second Life on the cover of Business Week

2006-04-24T13:16:00.000-07:00

Second Life is gaining momentum. Time for MVM to start building up their island!

Here is the story. And here is the link to the front cover.

Quote:
"A journey into a place in cyberspace where thousands of people have imaginary lives. Some even make a good living. Big advertisers are taking notice."

THERE.com in association with Yahoo!

2006-04-14T11:27:00.000-07:00

A competitor to Second Life? There.com and Yahoo join forces to create another metaverse.

What is There.com?

"There is an online getaway where you can hang out with your friends and meet new ones -- all in a lush 3D environment that's yours to explore!".

Check it out.

MTV Overdrive Feature on Second Life

2006-04-14T09:14:00.000-07:00

Message from Reuben Steiger:

MTV feature on a fashion show held in Second Life. It's really worth watching (please note, it only works on PC's).

Seems like Second Life is teetering on the edge of mainstream media adoption - good news for all of us interested in developing a new class of experiences and applications using SL as a Platform.

Second Life, again.

2006-04-10T12:01:00.000-07:00

The Metaverse called "Second Life" is full of surprises, and it just keeps getting more and more interesting. Partly because of the chaotic creativity of everyone who gets the SL bug, and partly because of the huge range of possibilities.

In the past few days I have heard about the live webcast of a real total solar eclipse of the moon, filmed from Turkey and broadcast live to an ancient amphitheater in SL. I have heard about prototyping a flashlight with a GPS system that can lead you to your destination in the dark. The prototype hardware and software are being developed and tested in SL. If successful with focus groups, the product may actually be commercialized!

So this gets me thinking, what about building the Turrell Roden Crater, or Skyspace in SL. Turrell builds art work with light. http://www.henryart.org/skyspace.htm. I could learn more about this marvelous art work while playing in SL and sharing it with friends either in SL or at our group dinner gatherings.

This is the addictive part of SL, it gets you wanting to do things... when you think of all the possibilities...

In short, Henry Musil describes 2 types of people: those who see possibilities in everything, and those that are realist. The Man Without Qualities is the first type and I am sure he would have loved SL.

Also check these Podcasts: Interview with Philip Rosedale, CEO/Founder of Linden Labs. This includes a discussion with 2 women for a Women's point of view.

Tags: Second Life, Turrell, Musil, Linden Labs

Expanded 3D view of the Honda Fit car

2006-04-10T10:37:00.000-07:00

This is a great example of high quality 3D modelling with great execution to bring the interactivity to the user in a simple and compelling manner. Viewpoint technology.

From my colleague Miguel: "I discovered this fun 3D application from Honda. Try this link and click the "3D View" button. You will have to install an ActiveX plug-in from Viewpoint.You can rotate the car in 3D and even open the doors, hatch and trunk. Pretty cool and it does not seem to be using a sequence of 2D photos but using a 3D model of the car."

Tags: 3D, Viewpoint, Honda

3D avatars IMVU, CrazyTalk or MVM?

2006-04-10T09:46:00.000-07:00

This has been a long standing debate at My Virtual Model. Do we enter the 3D avatar space with human believable models or leave it to the more cartoon or sci-fi world? This article, called "online dating - IMVU Lands $9M" talks about some of the challenges facing companies like IMVU in terms of making a sustainable business. The comment that I find particularly interesting is that users are not willing to "download yet another instant messaging client". If MVM could find a way to enable users to export their VM into existing IM clients, that would be cool.

Also check out CrazyTalk, by Reallision a 3D chat company.

Tags: CrazyTalk, MVM, IMVU, Virtual Model

Eve is a MMORPG

2006-04-10T08:24:00.000-07:00

Thanks to my colleague Andrew, I have witnessed the impressive world of EVE. It looks fabulously sci-fi. Not being a gamer, I find it very interesting to see the impressive range of technologies at work in an MMORPG. Can the face morphing technologies and face design engines of EVE and games like it be used by My Virtual Model? The Eve world looks promising. Over 100,000 members as of February 7th, 2006 and capacity for 25,000 simultaneous users in a continuous world without shards and instances. But do I want my Virtual Model to look like a space traveler?

Tags: MMORPG

YouOS is here for you

2006-04-10T08:22:00.000-07:00

My Colleague Mathieu showed me this trend setting site where you can experience YouOS, a new operating system that runs everywhere you can load a web browser. Its obvious benefits are a transportable desktop environment and application suite. Pop open a browser and your desktop is excatly the way you left it along with the playlist of your YouOS MP3 player. The catch is that the OS is programmed exclusively in JavaScipt. This trend shows an increasing interest in "fat" clients that seems to have exploded when AJAX became a household name, and not because the powder cleans well!

Tags: YouOS

StyleHive - a social bookmarking site for the shopping obsessed!

2006-03-22T12:17:00.000-08:00

StyleHive is a social bookmarking site for the product and shopping obsessed!

A bit similar to My Virtual Model's Closet idea, in which users create a simulation of their personal closet and then share their closet with friends or personal shoppers to help them shop.

From Reuben's blog:

"StyleHive has the potential to stand head and shoulders above the crowd in terms of value. If I have the choice to advertise on say, Digg or the StyleHive, the Hive is much more interesting. Why? Because people will be tagging and sharing the web and forming communities around the stuff they aspire to own. And, if the folks at the StyleHive exectute correctly, those people really will be the precious tastemakers that brand marketers am desperate to reach. And because it has viral characteristics and a mainstream aesthetic, they may actually be able to achieve scale."

See here for Reuben's full posting on StyleHive.

Designer Fashions Flourish Online

2006-03-22T12:15:00.000-08:00

This article by ANNE D'INNOCENZIO, AP Business Writer, supports the idea that people will buy expensive designer clothing on the web without having to try it on first. What do you think?

quote:

"According to Forrester Research, luxury online sales, including jewelry and designer fashions, rose 28 percent to $3.2 billion last year from the previous year."

Hilary Radley - a star outerwear designer from Montreal

2006-02-23T15:41:00.000-08:00

Hilary Radley is a name all Montrealer's interested in fashion should know.

Quote:

"Montreal - based Hilary Radley is today North America's premier outerwear designer. Her laser sharp attention to detail, innovative use of textiles and technology has made her the trend-setting innovator in this category.

...Considered by her peers as the "Designer of the Decade", a distinction bestowed on her recently by Elle magazine..."

Frank Piller's blog on Mass Customization

2006-02-23T08:57:00.000-08:00

Excellent blog on Mass Customization by Frank Piller. Check out the Wine configurator post that describes how a Canadian company has built a toolkit on the web to create your own blend of grapes, yeast, alcohol content, and oak tastes. All at a very attractive price!

Here is how Frank describes his blog:

"Notes and ideas on mass customization, personalization, customer integration, and open innovation -- strategies of value co-creation between suppliers and customers. This blog continues a long running newsletter, published and edited by Frank Piller, TUM / MIT, since 1997."

SHARE - a community jam session

2006-02-22T11:14:00.000-08:00

The Montreal SHARE group gets together twice a month for a high tech audiovisual community Jam session.

The next one is February 25th and coincides with the Montreal's "Festivale en Lumière" "nuit blanche". Collaboration with Elektra.

Quote from the site:

"SHARE Montréal est une communauté d'artistes performeurs et chercheurs en arts interactifs et médiatiques fondée en mai 2005 par les artistes Jean-Ambroise Vesac, Marie-Hélène Parant et Katherine Liberovskaya auxquels se sont joints Sabina Sariyska, Céline Seman, Danny Perreault, Sylvain Cormier, Eric Filion et i8u pour faire de ce projet une réalité vibrante.

SHARE Montréal réuni deux fois par mois des artistes vidéo, audio, nouveaux médias et même performeurs pour qu'ils expérimentent de nouvelles avenues artistiques ensemble. Chacun apporte son équipement, portables, instruments, senseurs, caméras, et se rencontre pour "jammer" et explorer ensemble. Tout artiste qui désire se joindre à nos soirées pour improviser est le bienvenu."

The Laws of the Virtual Worlds

2006-02-21T06:32:00.000-08:00

Is it possible to say that virtual world users have real world property interests in virtual objects?

This paper entitled "The Laws of the Virtual Worlds" by F. GREGORY LASTOWKA and DAN HUNTER examines this question and whether avatars have enforceable legal and moral rights.

Tailrank is a Memetracker?

2006-02-20T11:29:00.000-08:00

I came across a new buzz word in the web/blog space today:Memetracker.

I was curious to find out what this is all about. So here are my findings.

First, what is a meme? A "meme" is any "idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture". The term "meme" was coined by Richard Dawkin's around 1976 to represent a cultural equivalent of a gene.

Therefore a meme tracker is an aggregator of ideas compiled by searching lots of blogs and prioritizing the most popular ones..

Tailrank is an example of a memetracker. Tailrank, like memeorandum.com creates a so called "living" newspaper totally generated on the fly (every 5 minutes) with content from people's blogs. Sounds a bit like what EPIC 2014 (a future history of the media by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson) was talking about.

Create your avatar at MVM?

2006-02-17T14:36:00.000-08:00

This is an interesting undocumented feature at My Virtual Model. Click a link below to go directly to a questionnaire to create your model. You can use any MVM enabled site. Below I am using H&Ms.

Try creating your Male Virtual Model or Female Virtual Model

Many people would like to create their avatars using MVM. Any comment?

Plastic Surgery and your Virtual Model

2006-02-14T11:43:00.000-08:00

Visit this site for a free consultation on your personal plastic surgery plan. Now imagine combining this with your personal Virtual Model? Ouch! Do you think people will be more or less willing? Thanks Alex for finding this.

Colliding worlds or technology convergence?

2006-02-13T09:06:00.000-08:00

What typically appeared as opposed and radically different markets not even 5 years ago, now appear to be coming closer and closer together.

Take a look at the following companies. You have companies building 3D communities like SecondLife with their fashion shows, industrial 3D data processing companies like AG3D, shopping experience companies like MVM (leader), apparel CAD companies like Optitex offering 3D runways, and gaming companies educating users on real apparel and footwear products like this basketball video game. All companies operating in different markets. All featuring Virtual Try-on of apparel on a virtual model.

Is this the start of a technology convergence towards 3D apparel?

Building Identity

2006-02-02T16:47:00.000-08:00

Interesting article on building identity and trust into the next-generation Internet by Ken Jordan, Jan Hauser, and Steven Foster.

Compare this to My Virtual Model's Manifest of Virtual Idenity (access to members only).

Lands End My Virtual Model Tour - 5 years ago!

2006-02-02T15:17:00.001-08:00

The 2001 Lands End My Virtual Model Tour was 5 years ago, but even today it still sounds like science fiction!

My Virtual Model did a tour with Lands End using a truck which contained a human body scanner. The truck visited majour cities across North America. People entered the truck at one end and left the truck at the other end with a full body scan and a virtual model created and ready to be used on-line.

TC2, a non-profit organisation, worked with a start up company called "Image Twin" to create an on-line bank of people's body scans for use with visualisation and fit prediction engines such as My Virtual Model.

Full article at:

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3638/is_5_42/ai_70658450

See the pictures at:

http://intranet.mvm.com/home/2000_10_23_MVMTour/photos.htm

Innovative Communities

2006-02-02T15:17:00.000-08:00

Threadless
A really amazing t-shirt creation site - design your own t-shirt.

If your creation gets a lot of votes, it gets printed!

Created by http://www.skinnycorp.com

Mathworks
A collaborative math problem solving site with several contests per year

Innocentive
Innocentive connects companies with R&D problems and scientists willing
to solve problems. This project shows the power of tapping into the
periphery and enabling communities to innovate.

Second Life
Second Life is a virtual world - a 3D online persistent space totally
created and evolved by its users.

Habbo Hotel
Habbo Hotel is a virtual hotel where you can hang out and make new friends. It's designed for 13 to 20 year olds in Canada, but everyone (13 and older) is welcome. When you register you "become" a Habbo. Then you can walk,
dance, eat, drink and chat in the many clubs, cafes, restaurants, swimming pools and games rooms. You can even create, furnish, and decorate your own room!

Library Thing
Create your bookshelf by selecting books, then create a snippet to display
them on your blog. Use other users bookshelves to speed up the creation of your own.

Facebook
Students only!
Facebook is a social networking website specifically for college,
university, and now high school communities.They have an incredibly high percentage of penetration reaching almost 100% with this years first year university students.

For more see the Wikipedia's list of Social Networking Sites.

Basketball Video Game with Nike shoes

2006-01-26T14:51:00.000-08:00

This is a brilliant move by Nike. Not only are they exposing potential buyers to their new range of products, players are able to "learn" the characteristics of a wide range of Nike shoes because the game truly simulates characteristics of the shoes. You can also cusomtize your Nike iD shoes in the NBA 2K6 video game with the same options you have in real life!

"In standard gameplay mode, over 200 Nike athletes will be wearing their actual Nike shoes."

Finally, Nike can launch new product into the game to educate their buyers. There will be "unlock" codes that users can enter to "try out" the latest Nike products.

Next Nike will be doing market surveys in the video game before the products are manufacured.

Here is the link to the full article.

Collada - a new interactive 3D standard?

2006-01-12T05:01:00.000-08:00

COLLADA - An open Digital Asset Exchange Schema for the interactive 3D industry.

Blogs on Garages

2006-01-12T04:39:00.000-08:00

Click here to use the Blog Finder on the topic of garages. The Blog Finder is Technorati's directory of blogs, organized by subject. This page shows blogs about garages in order of authority (most site links).

MicroD EasyPlan 2D Planner

2006-01-10T09:16:00.000-08:00

MicroD EasyPlan 2D Room Planner

Here is an example: lagaleriedumeuble.com. Click on the tab "Planificateur" on the left.

Planner for building your Closet!

2006-01-10T08:25:00.000-08:00

Planning a new closet? Download the tool and use the wizard to automatically design a closet that fits your needs. Thanks Miguel for finding this.

closetmade.com

Ditial TV on the Web is back!

2006-01-03T07:11:00.000-08:00

I remeber watching news from around the world on by Television hooked up to an internet video stream in 2000. It was amazing and of a quality well worth watching. Then the dot.com crash led to the dissapearance of all the high quality free streaming sites that I could find. In 2004 it seemed that all the majour news stations in the US had a low quality stream broadcast for which you must pay!

Well it looks like Web TV is back. This free software works with Windows Media Player and has listed in a series of drop down menus a large selection of international TV streams of differeing qualities. With Media Player 10 and DirectX 9 the quality of some seem to be returning to the pre dot.com crash era. Happy viewing!

http://www.endicosoft.com/digitaltv.php

View22 3D planner

2005-12-21T16:34:00.000-08:00

http://www.view22.com/

Here are the clients

Check this 3D kitchen planner on Bob Villa.

Gladiator Garage Planner

2005-12-21T16:26:00.000-08:00

Gladiator created a flash based planner called BluePrint

Garage Architect - planner software

2005-12-21T16:20:00.000-08:00

A small company called Image21/Studio A created a software package to make it easy to build custom garages.

http://www.garagearchitect.com/

Clean up of Wikipedia?

2005-12-21T06:11:00.000-08:00

Article from La Presse Affairs.com on a future model for Wikipedia with 2 on-line versions; stable and "live". Also mentions the danger of false articles and compares the accuracy with Britannica with surprising results.

Great case study on why good ideas can fail!

2005-12-20T14:19:00.000-08:00

"We had more money, more users, a five year head start, and some really, really smart people working on bookmarking in 1999. The bottom line is that we simply didn't get it right. Some simple innovations like using tags instead of folders, making public the default, building better discovery features, etc made the difference between being an also-ran and a hot acquisition target."

http://www.aripaparo.com/archive/001456.html

IMVU is the world's greatest 3D instant messenger?

2005-12-18T22:13:00.000-08:00

IMVU is where you can create your fastasy avatar. How does this compete with MVM?

MVM makes avatars with a different appeal. They are anatomically correct, realistic simulations of humans. This does not mean that your Virtual Model must look like you. It can be whatever you want to be like. The key difference between IMVU and MVM is that with MVM whatever you choose to simulate, the end result is a human, with a body that can fit real garments and even help you with weight loss and fitness.

I like to compare this to ancient history when the greeks developed a vision of their gods in human form. In contrast, older cultures before the Greeks (excluding Persian culture) had a vision of their gods as scary in-human creatures with multiple arms, heads, horns, etc. IMVU appears to fit the early form of avatars with a high level of customisation that pleases early adopters today, albeit with a high degree of fanstasy. There is surely a place for these unrealistic avatars in the future. However, this does not compete at the same level as My Virtual Model in quality nor in usage. The applications of MVM are far more numerous and potentially useful than just a 3D avatar chat. Nonetheless, Virtual Identity is defined as the combination of mutiple forms of your visualisation. So go ahead and create your IMVU, as long as you link it to you Virtual Identity.

http://www.imvu.com/catalog/web_index.php?from=Blog

Ego Food: Edward Tufte is very neat.

2005-12-08T14:12:00.000-08:00

Ego Food: Edward Tufte is very neat.

Online Market Surveys

2005-12-08T11:25:00.000-08:00

DryRunner

Online surveys and market research. Build surveys online and get feedback from a pool of Internet users.

Cantoche avatars gain adoption by Mobile Phones

2005-12-07T09:02:00.000-08:00

November Newsletter announces adoption by Mobile Phones!

Cantoche is the publisher of the Living Actor(tm) software suite that allows the creation, scripting and integration of 3D virtual animated characters within any multimedia application.

Cantoche is the world leader for the design of Microsoft Agent and Living Actor(tm) characters and offers solutions that revolutionize today's and tomorrow's interfaces.

Identity 2.0

2005-12-01T15:31:00.000-08:00

http://identity20.com/
There is also a great intro by the CEO of sxip
http://www.identity20.com/media/WEB2_2005/

20-20's Kevin Bidner

2005-11-29T12:18:00.000-08:00

"FACE TO FACE WITH KEVIN BIDNER" Vice President of Sales for 20-20. Article written by Simon De Groot, August 2004.

Icovia 2D Room Planner used in the residential interior design market

2005-11-29T11:25:00.000-08:00

Icovia Space Planner

An example of the Icovia planner is Jordan's. Another example is the Brick.

Icovia has an excellent product with 2 version: "enterprise" version for web sites, and "designer" version for a more sophisticated user who wants more design tools. Their signin/identity system for saving room plans and emailing rooms to friends is setup per client, so their is no mobility like MVM. They also bundle tools to help analyse end users and convert them into potential clients.

Display Lighting Catalog using 3D Java applet

2005-11-24T11:54:00.000-08:00

http://www.dslgroup.com/catalog/index.html

If you drill down you'll get to product pages that who 3d models
of the products. It uses a java applet from
http://www.kaon.com/3DCatalog.html

2D Family Room Planner - Sofastyler.com

2005-11-18T15:32:00.000-08:00

Example of a bare bones 2D planner. Requires Java installed on your PC.

True Spectra acquired by Scen7 - Aug. 2003

2005-11-18T15:26:00.000-08:00

http://www.serverwatch.com/news/print.php/3065241

Scen7 Infinite Imaging Platform v3.2

2005-11-18T15:23:00.000-08:00

http://i-newswire.com/pr22468.html

Bill Gates sees the future in 3D!

2005-11-18T10:54:00.000-08:00

Pour son 50ème anniversaire, Bill Gates nous offre sa vision du futur.
Et devinez quoi ... Il la part belle à la 3D !

Patrick Whitney - Illinois Institute of Technology

2005-11-18T09:10:00.000-08:00

Professor Patrick Whitney is the director of the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, and is the Steelcase/Robert C. Pew Professor of Design.

Whitney has published and lectured throughout the world about how to make technological innovations more humane, the link between design and business strategy, and methods of designing interactive communications and products.

http://www.id.iit.edu/people/faculty_bios/whitney.html

SkinnyCorp.com creates communities!

2005-11-18T08:32:00.000-08:00

Check these 8 ideas for innovative and fun community building:

http://www.skinnycorp.com/ourideas

Mode virtuelle - La Presse - Nicolas Ritoux

2005-11-17T15:48:00.000-08:00

Les personnages de jeux vidéo devraient-ils faire un petit effort dans leur habillement? Sont-ils à la fine pointe de la mode ou totalement ringards? Sont-ils réalistes, excentriques, créatifs? Actuel a demandé à quatre designers québécois ce qu'ils en pensaient: Ève Gravel, Denis Gagnon, Renata Morales et Vincent-Olivier Arsenault.

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20051115/CPACTUEL/511150554/1015/CPACTUEL

Social Shopping at Yahoo

2005-11-17T15:45:00.000-08:00

Yahoo calls its new offering the "Shoposphere"; like the blogosphere, it aims to be a world where users connect and link in multiple ways.

http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/3564441

i-cabine - La cabine ingeractive

2005-11-11T11:13:00.000-08:00

Mounia showed me this site in France. It has an animated Virtual Model.

http://www.i-cabine.fr/

http://www.i-cabine.fr/demo.1/pop.htm

http://corporate.i-cabine.fr/

20-20's Virtual Showroom

2005-11-09T11:10:00.000-08:00

http://www.2020technologies.com/us-eng/20-20VirtualShowroom/index.aspx

The Desktop Edition of Virtual Showroom is intended to help you enhance your physical showroom by adding a kiosk or computer to show your customers the products, options and finishes not seen on your showroom floor

3D Garment Creator - Fashion Revolution

2005-11-09T10:49:00.000-08:00

3D Garment Creator

Automatically promote your 2D silhouettes to full 3D garment models.

http://www.3dfashionrevolution.com/3d-fashion-revolution-3d-garment-creator.html

Fashion Revolution says:

By 2003 90% of our business was in the apparel and textile industry and so we rebranded as Fashion Revolution.

In 2005 we sold our consultancy and web design business and moved exclusively online, establishing 3Dfashionrevolution.com, specialising in developing our 3D fashion tools for fashion illustrators.

We now have almost 2000 users of our solutions worldwide, ranging from corporates right through to small business's, schools and individuals.

The core engine has been developed by Sky Blue Research from their own game engine:

The 3D Garment Creator series of products has been the primary focus of Sky Blue Research, it has been exclusively commissioned by and developed in partnership with Fashion Revolution (previously known as Burneth Ltd.).

http://skyblueresearch.com/3dgarmentcreator.htm

Fashion Revolution tried to get new code via bounty programming this last September. The bid was for Flash, C/C++, Python. No one responded and the bid was closed after a single week on Sept. 8, 2005.

We are looking at rewriting our software that converts 2D garment drawings to 3D
models.

1 - We need a program that will take a model out of Poser and automatically
create the appropriate data files and templates to enable garments to be drawn
and promoted to 3D to be fitted over the Poser model.

2 - We need the 2D - 3D garment promotion process.

3 - We need to be able to import the finished 3D garment back into Poser.

http://www.projectslist.biz/freelance/Python/a-3d-garment-creator/

Poser is an entry-level 3D package for human form modeling which could really provide a worldwide user base.

http://www.e-frontier.com/go/poser_hpl

GirlSpace.com - Cartoon version of Virtual Model

2005-11-01T13:45:00.000-08:00

This site generates some exitement by emailing a cartoom virtual model to friends with a story background.

http://www.girlspace.com/funandgames/virtualmodel.asp

enter an age older than 16
create an account
create your virtual model

User on a Virtual World Tour

2005-11-01T07:56:00.000-08:00

beeooll's blog: This user creates a VM and makes a world tour by inserting the image of their VM into photos and modifying their VM with accessories like cigarettes.

You need to scroll right down to the bottom of the page:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/beeooll/

Survey of user created Weight Loss pages!

2005-11-01T07:51:00.000-08:00

Recent forum shows how one person can trigger a community to create VMs WITHIN hours.

4 users of the forum have created their VMs in response to a single user mentioning MVM.

There is even a photo of a user that really looks like their VM!

The user also prints out the image and places it on the fridge.

http://www.healthyweightforum.org/eng/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8004&PN=1&get=last

Lori's page with comparion to photos:

http://www.jobsons.org/lori/index.htm

Carmen: This page links to our compositor server, beacuse the user does not know how to host images.

She even created a questionnnaire.

Parts do not work because we changed our MVM site.

http://www.freewebs.com/carmenweightloss/

TShannon: This page has prominent virtual models, and photos of the user on a secondary page.

http://www.dreamingthought.com/beforeafter/index.html

Photos: http://www.dreamingthought.com/beforeafter/realme.html

Hannah and Coleen. The journey of two girls looking for the perfect...

User with a good description of A. B. C. virtual models of herself.

http://www.hannahbeth.com/blog/archiveswc/2004_09_01_archive.htm

Jessica: This page is from another user.

http://jessica.l.scott.tripod.com/weightloss.html

Donna's Journey: Yet another page from another user.

http://www.donnasjourney.com/photos.html

http://www.donnasjourney.com/model.html

Virtual Home - Habitat Post & Beam

2005-10-31T19:18:00.000-08:00

http://www.postandbeam.com

Whether you have a timber frame plan in mind, an architect's drawings, or just a vision of someplace special, Habitat Post & Beam will help you create a home that is distinctly your own.

the hair styler.com - online virtual hairstyling

2005-10-31T19:16:00.000-08:00

http://www.thehairstyler.com/
Upload your photo and view yourself with over 3,000 hairstyles.

MVM reviewed on Signal vs. Noise blog

2005-10-31T08:43:00.000-08:00

virtual_model_feature_at_lands_end

This is Signal vs. Noise, a weblog by 37signals about design, customer experience, entertainment, politics, Basecamp, products we like, small business, ourselves, and more. Established 1999 in Chicago.

User recommends MVM for weight application

2005-10-31T08:36:00.000-08:00

http://www.frazierhome.net/node/view/247

"This site allows you to create a virtual model for yourself. Great for creating a model of what you look like now, and then tweaking the parameters to get a visual of what you will look like at your goal weight! "

fieldOfView

2005-10-31T08:32:00.000-08:00

http://www.fieldofview.nl/

About fieldOfView

The fieldOfView products range from virtual tours to to tailormade immersive technologies and experiences.

Active research and development of our in house developed panoramic engine SPi-V provides us with insights and expertise also applicable in simpler projects. With a background in web- and interaction design, our expertise extends beyond that of immersive imaging into the fields of usability and human-computer interaction.

Collection of Virtual Human Sites

2005-10-28T15:27:00.000-07:00

Virtual Woman
Your girlfriend just got some competition. In this Virtual Reality Game, build and compete against Virtual Women with full artificial intelligence, choose ethnic type, personality, location, clothing etc. Throw away solitaire forever!
http://virtualwoman.net/

IMpersona
Ever wanted to put a face to people you're instant messaging? Now you can - and hear them speak too! MSN Messenger users can see and hear their buddies as they chat. Animated characters read your incoming messages, and show emotions that are defined by easy-to-add emoticons. Set a persona for yourself that the whole world can see!
http://www.impersona.com

SeeStorm Messenger
SeeStorm Messenger is an expressive and anonymous voice & video instant messenger with talking 3D characters. SeeStorm's mission is to redefine the way people communicate over the Internet by enhancing their online communication abilities and experience. You can make new connections and still maintain your anonymity by using 3D characters instead of showing your real face.
http://ssm.seestorm.com/

> Ananova ^pop
Ananova is the world's first virtual newscaster, she is the "human" face of a phenomenal information system. Ananova is the fastest way to check the latest news, including entertainment, sport, UK and world news, weather forecasts and a daily round-up of the national press. She allows you to slice through the news by category, or view a thread on a long-running story.
http://www.ananova.com/

> 1KTV ^pop
1KTV (One kilobaud TV) presents animated talking characters in TV show and embedded web page formats at only 1/28th of a dial up Internet connection. The 1KTV Network will host a variety of 1KTV format shows including news, weather, sports, finance and entertainment that are updated daily. Some shows will be serious in the nightly news format and others will have gags and comedy skits.
http://www.1ktv.com

> My Virtual Model ^pop
My Virtual Model is an interactive on-line shopping solution with a variety of fashion and lifestyle applications (clothing, shoes, jewelry and beauty products). It enables shoppers to become the star of their own shopping experience, through the comfort and privacy of the Web. By answering specific questions, users can create virtual replica of themselves with exact measurements, skin and hair color, ensuring the perfect fit.
http://www.myvirtualmodel.com/mvmhome/jsp/index.jsp

> Cycosmos ^pop
With CycosmosCreate you will create your online identity, grab a personality to match your identity and to attract other users. In the Search you can look for people with the same interests as you, screen their attitude, interests, passions, and flaws. Found someone fascinating? Contact them by email, ecard, or instant messaging. Take your new identity out for a walk.
http://www.cycosmos.co.uk

> T-Babe ^pop
T-Babe is the daughter of S-Man and Mia. She was born in the cyberworld and has been brought up in a multicultural environment where friends and family are the upmost. She speaks English, Italian, German, she sings, she dances, she is quite simply unique.
http://www.glasgowrecords.com

> Click & Dress ^pop
Click & Dress brings a whole new dimension to online shopping. Click & Dress is your personal virtual dressing room. Now you can model a wide selection clothing items, in various combinations and colors - online.
http://www.hi-pic.co.il

3D Test - Realtime & Interactive 3D

2005-10-19T18:55:00.000-07:00

Showcase of existing technolgies:

http://www.3d-test.com/3dsites/

Urbankeios Canadian Design Group

2005-10-12T06:44:00.000-07:00

Advertised on

http://digitalhome.sympatico.msn.ca/Home

as a company that creates unique spaces

http://www.urbankeios.com/

Jocelyn Faubert

2005-10-07T13:46:00.000-07:00

[Jocelyn Faubert] Université de Montréal, École d'optométrie, Chaire CRSNG-Essilor sur la presbytie et la perception visuelle
Un environnement immersif pour l'étude du comportement humain

Titulaire de la Chaire CRSNG-Essilor sur la presbytie et la perception visuelle, Jocelyn Faubert est professeur titulaire à l'École d'optométrie de l'Université de Montréal. Il est un expert internationalement reconnu des questions de perception visuelle, de la vision chez les personnes âgées et de neuropsychologie. Dr. Faubert dirige une dizaine d'étudiants à la maîtrise et au doctorat, en plus d'une équipe de chercheurs et de stagiaires post-doctoraux à son laboratoire de psychophysique et perception visuelle. Il détient un doctorat en neuropsychologie expérimentale de l'Université Concordia. Il a également complété un post-doctorat à l'Université Harvard. Il est membre de l'Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, de la Vision Sciences Society et de la Society for Neuroscience.

Fakespace Systems Inc.

2005-10-07T13:31:00.000-07:00

http://www.fakespacesystems.com/

Our broad, award-winning product line includes the world's first spatially Immersive Room; the world's first re-configurable systems - the FLEX(tm) and reFLEX(tm); the world's favorite family of curved-screen solutions - the CURV(tm); the highly popular PowerWall(tm) series, the office-scale M1 Desk, and ultra-portable ROVR(tm) solutions. As the demand for a more cost effective, yet high performing solution increased, Fakespace developed the Beacon(tm) SX+ Projector - an alternative to 3-chip DLP(tm) and polarized projection - and Conduit(tm) software which enables graphics applications to operate in immersive visualization environments.

An immersive existence simulator

2005-10-07T13:10:00.000-07:00

http://www.panoscope360.com/

Where are you?

An immersive existence simulator
and telepresence apparatus for the
Panoscope 360° (single channel
immersive display for real-time 3D)

By Luc Courchesne, 2005

Play video demo (4:15 minutes)

this VM has a TAN LINE!

2005-09-30T11:24:00.000-07:00

User Web site:

"I just found the model through HSN I think it looks more like me... this VM has a TAN LINE! I am so using HSN's virtual model from now on!" http://dolphindreamdesigns.com/vmpage.htm

Virtuality Conference & Miss Digital World

2005-09-30T11:03:00.000-07:00

VIRTUALITY 2005 Virtual Everywhere!
     6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
     ON DIGITAL CINEMA, VIRTUAL REALITY,
     COMPUTER GRAPHICS, (3D) ANIMATION & VISUAL EFFECTS

http://www.virtualityconference.it/

Miss Digital World

http://www.missdigitalworld.com/MDWContest/showpage/16

Mueller Kneer Associates

2005-09-30T09:58:00.000-07:00

An interesting London based design group. They designed a cool night club
in London called the Cinnamon Club. http://www.muellerkneer.com/

Holosonic Research Labs

2005-09-30T09:57:00.000-07:00

The Audio Spotlight is a revolutionary new audio technology that creates
sound in a narrow beam, just like light. Aim the flat, thin speaker disc to
your desired listening area, and provide all of the sound with none of the
noise.

This could be great for multimedia installations in public places.http://www.holosonics.com/