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6th March, 2009

How Benjamin Button Got His Face

Did you know that for the first hour of the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Ben’s head was entirely digital? No makeup used at all.
Watch Ed Ulbrich talk about the technology behind it.

2nd December, 2008

NVIDIA PhysX in Mirrors Edge

In the award-winning videogame Mirror’s Edge, DICE, an Electronic Arts Inc. studio, introduces players to a new heroine named Faith. Faith belongs to a network of couriers called ‘runners’ who use acrobatic moves to transport confidential information across the cityscape of rooftops and aerial skyways to avoid being detected. To deliver this never-before-seen sense of [...]

5th March, 2009

Headset to mimic all 5 senses

A virtual reality helmet that recreates the sights, smells, sounds and even tastes of far-flung holiday destinations has been devised by British scientists.
Armchair travellers wearing the device will be able to hear the roar of lions on safari, smell the flowers of an Alpine meadow or feel the heat of the Caribbean sun on their [...]

14th November, 2008

3D Technologies Explained

Gizmodo have written a great article about different types of 3D viewing technologies.
“Most 3D operates on a single basic principle—tricking our dumb, binocular brain into interpreting a 2D image into one with depth. The most basic way to do this is stereoscopy, which is essentially showing a slightly different image to each eye which the [...]