White Shadow is Live in Linz
July 11, 2009
White Shadow, by Team 4040. Commissioned by Ars Electronica Linz.
For three nights now, White Shadow has been serving as a live channel between Mexico City and Linz.
It will be there until July 14. If you live in Linz, please drop by the Hauptplatz after 21:00. If you don’t, you can always check out the live streaming at the Team 4040 website 
Controlling Real Machines With The Wii Remote
July 11, 2009
If more than a few game controllers were strongly influenced in design by real, industrial human-machine interfaces (Densha de Go! comes to mind) will the reverse ever happen?
You have surely seen various examples of using the Wii Remote to perform human-computer interaction. These guys, however, used it to control two very real and quite huge grappling arms. Pretty cool at the very least.
Inclusion of real objects in gaming, by Sony
July 4, 2009
Sony has seemingly filed a patent for a system that allows everyday objects to be used as videogame controllers.
I’m not going to go on and rant about it now. But well… I really have to start promoting my own work. Let’s hope that the reviewers at SIGGRAPH Asia like Noon.
[via Kotaku, Siliconera]
