3d Gadgetfest for Cool Stuff Collective Xmas show

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We are all here recording the final 3 shows of The Cool Stuff Collective for this season. Episode 13 features christmas and I will be, tech willing, covering some other ways to deal with 3D in the home.

I have some Vuzix 3d wrap glasses, where the screens are in the glasses and give the impression of [...]

Kinect in the wild

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Like many of my fellow Xbox 360 owners we now have a Kinect at home. The good news is it just works. The bad news is that it makes you do things like this.

I was interested to see how the predlets took to it. They really wanted to play the raft game as that is what [...]

Virus, Rock and Roll and Brain Control

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A strange combination of words in the title, but then that is what happens when you get (happily) dragged into the developing madness of The Cool Stuff Collective.
Episode 9 aired this evening though is the one that will be on the mainstream ITV1 channel on saturday 13th November.
I was watching it whilst at the BCS where [...]

Star Wars AR – StAR wARs I guess?

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This video is doing the rounds of using the world around you as a backdrop for playing a tie fighter shooting turret game on the iphone.

There have been some great advances in using the iphone tilt and touch to control Star Wars related games and I am sure the Kinect game will be equally evocative with [...]

Unity3d growing – lets get schools in on this

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A recent press release from Unity3d gave some impressive figures “Unity Technologies Surpasses 250K Developers Milestone and 35M Installs of Free Unity Web Player”
I am a big fan of Unity3d as you will have seen over the years and it is great to see the company doing so well. I do not think this success is [...]

Kinect – Yes its fantastic

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The current Cool Stuff Collective show airing or Tx8 (of 13) as they call it in the trade features yet more great and cool gadgets and games. For me though the true star of the show was the Xbox Kinect. Having it set up in the studio and having had a little bit of [...]