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Virtual…er…augmented(?) reality

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

While the absurdity of the term “augmented reality” surely has thinkers like Baudrillard rolling in their graves (or beds), the technology - whatever you want to call it - is still pretty damn cool. Although this type of system has been employed for years by hollywood, Inglobe Technolgies is the first company (to my knowledge [...]

It’s just too complicated

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

I’m sorry can you please repeat the question?

Rendering with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Ever since I read Wired’s interview with Jeff Bezos back in January, I have been waiting to see Amazon’s Web Services in an architecture/modeling application. Perhaps the most obvious application is a render farm using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud which is currently offered by http://www.renderrocket.com/ and a couple other companies. the renderrocket.com rates seem reasonable (probably more so [...]

I have a new hero

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

No not Hiro (although I wish) and no I don’t mean Iron Man (but I should add Tony Stark to the list too…)
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