Any sufficiently advanced virtual reality is indistinguishable from actual reality.
Mars Curiosity Descent – Ultra HD 30fps Smooth
On August 6th we landed Curiosity on the planet Mars. The footage that came from that descent was amazing, but left me wanting more. I wanted higher res, smooth and a decent framerate. I wanted to feel like I was making that landing.
So did Bard Canning. Apparently so much so, that he re-constructed the descent video…
The Great Dictator by Charlie Chaplin
“I’m sorry but I don’t want to be an Emperor, that’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that. We all want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone.”
NASA MSL Curiosity Rover Lego Robot
I had the pleasure of spending the day of the landing of the Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity Rover) at Kennedy Space Center. Beside the IMAX auditorium was an incredible Lego…
In Soviet Russia, Snow Clears You
In the spirit of winter, and all things snow, my wife sent me this video of a man cleaning the snow from his roof. This man clearly knew how to work smarter and not harder, by outsourcing the work to gravity.
Microsoft IllumiRoom Demo
We’ve caught videos of illumiroom surfacing before but now we’re getting a bit more details about the capabilities and it is definitely exciting because of what it may mean for living room entertainment.
Understanding Higgs boson– aka “God Particle”
Yesterday, on July 4th, physicists confirmed the existence of a previously unknown particle which is widely believed to be the Higgs boson particle. Though, a nerd I am, a physicist…