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Microsoft Research Nightlife - Kinect WWT

I'll be presenting my Microsoft Kinect powered interface to World Wide Telescope at Nightlife on September 29th at the California Academy of Sciences. The theme of the night is Microsoft Research and uses of its products at the Academy. There will be live tours of the Earth, satellite and rover data, DJ's, booze, and you can fly through the known Universe using Minority Report style gestures, throw a planet, and possibly control an animatronic mimic-bot.

Warning: commanding the Universe after a few cocktails can induce being awesome. And vomitting. Win a date with me if you can find the easter-egg in our solar system.

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New HCI Mailing List and Discussion Group

I've started a new HCI mailing list, at http://groups.google.com/group/hcie . Please join to discuss topics spanning data manipulation. Immersive media, stereoscopy, crowd immersion and multiple-user input, cybernetics, speech-command, VR, passive input, emotional computing, data visualization, rapid prototyping and AI.

The list will be moderated, but don't be discouraged -- posts about anything non-spammy, either real prototypes you've developed, or research subjects you're developing, or things you've read about, will get through. Technical skill should be pretty wide on the list, despite its engineering slant.

We look forward to collaborating with you.

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HCI / CHI site added

I'll be adding information, links, and development with human-computer interaction on a new page and blog, but with a slight twist from the usual blather: a more futurist standpoint, slanted toward the engineering side of data manipulation. Immersive media, stereoscopy, speech-command, crowd immersion and multiple-user input, cybernetics, rapid prototyping, VR, data visualization, etc, are all fair game. I'll likely include code and frameworks of projects I'm involved with offline.