I'll be riding in the tenth anniversary ride of AIDS/Lifecycle, a 580-something mile bicycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles raising money for both the victims of HIV and social programs to prevent its further spread. Proceeds benefit the SFAF and the LA LGBT Center/ Please donate what you can, by visiting this link.
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I'll be participating in this year's Seismic Challenge, a 200-mile, 2 day ride from San Francisco, through San Jose, around the Bay and up through wine country, traversing 5 major fault lines to raise money for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Thousands of individuals benefit from the programs and services of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, locally and globally, and I encourage you to learn more about why this is so important.
Please contribute to their cause here if you're able.
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The first, pre-release version of my portable, interactive simulator will be available soon. The system should work for a 2 - 3 meter dome, and uses open source software to capture user gestures to generate both visual and audio events. Simulations of space and celestial bodies, fractal imagery, and presentation enhancements are all possible in a small, but immersive environment that should support a modest group of viewers.
Check back here for source code, schematics, structural diagrams and video.
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I'll be riding with Lifecycle in June 2010 to raise money for The San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Please show your support for this important cause by donating here. Any amount will help.
I'll be posting an additional page here soon, that'll include realtime GPS maps, camera feeds, landmarking and GIS integration. Wait for it.
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The Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences has changed its daily presentation from the (hugely successful, ahem) Fragile Planet, to a show co-produced with the Rose Center at the American Museum of Natural History, entitled, Journey to the Stars. It is adapted to contain local, San Francisco imagery and include a live presentation by an astronomer, and I'm credited as Production Engineer.
Fragile Planet will still be shown at the Academy's Nightlife program on Thursday evenings.
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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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I'll be presenting "The Technology of Science VIsualization at the California Academy of Sciences " at the Astronomy Visualization Workshop, hosted by the California Academy of Sciences. I'll attempt to cover the Morrison fulldome planetarium, the Dolby 3D stereoscopic / 2K theater of the Hearst Forum, the renderfarm and workstation environment of science visualization, and our plans for future experimentation.
Notes and details of our infrastructure and capabilities are available upon request.
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I'm interviewed for my work on and in the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences in this month's print issue of Maximum PC Magazine. Norman Chan did an incredible job, even making it sound as though I wasn't completely out of it, despite my disheveled, overcaffeinated inarticulacy and complete lack of preparation (evidenced in the full page, "high times" photo.) No small feat -- great work!
I am currently the Senior Systems Engineer of the Morrison Planetarium and (digital) Exhibits, and credited as Production Engineer (pdf) for the Academy's inaugural presentation, Fragile Planet.
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