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Saturday, 24 January 2015

Hololens welcomes you to the future, or at least the future Microsoft is pushing


[outside]: *Knock knock*.
[Me]: Uhh... who's there?
[outside]: The future.
[Me]: Oh... ummm the future... who?
[outside]: You know those sci-fi hologram things that you thought were so far into the future that you'd never ever see it and it would always be a thing in a movie?
[Me]: Yeah................ wait..... thats... THATS-
[outside]: Yeah. That's me.
[Me]: WOOHOOO! COME IN MY SON. COME IN.

Microsoft's Hololens looks amazing... however I couldn't help but notice a few things about these new holograms that MS may have been cleverly "disguising". Firstly, I'm not sure if the new processor can discern or account for distance and occlusion. In other words, if you have a hologram of a picture on a wall and you raise your hand to click, one would think that your hand would be IN FRONT OF the hologram. I don't think it does that as the camera angles from everything in the demos to the live demo of Holo Studio were cleverly avoiding the occlusion issue. Maybe it's not such a big deal. Obviously it's nice to not wave this potential downer in front of people's faces (you see what I did there) to kill the hype.

I'm still super excited and down the line the whole prospect of giving the hardware and software enough spatial information in real time for it to calculate occlusion is something that isn't out of the range of possibility.

Friday, 16 January 2015

French Connection Car Chase: Guerilla film making at its best.


You want to see a shot list? Here's how they did it back in the 70s. One of the greatest car chase scenes in cinema history broken down page by page. Check out the original documentation.

DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME KIDS: No permits. LIVE traffic. They just stuck a siren on the top of a car, threw some cameras on board and WEAVED THROUGH LIVE TRAFFIC!

Yep... talk about guerilla film making.

Read the full article from the source: Oscars.org

The Expanse trailer teases your inner Space-Geek


Want to make a Science Fiction series about the Solar System? Nobody's done it before, right?

WRONG.

That's right. As of today you are TOO LATE JUNIOR! TOO LATE.
Here it is. The Expanse. Trailer #1.

Time to move on to the next crazy idea that you think nobody is going to write something about...

Read the full article from the source: Cinemablend

Thursday, 15 January 2015

RaiJintek METIS MINI ITX Case with full sized PSU


If you are looking for a home for your new mITX build, there are some pretty big issues to overcome with most mITX cases. They usually require a squished compact (more expensive) power supply. There's not enough room for a full sized GPU. There's usually no room to mount a half decent sized CPU cooler and hard drive space? Well, anywhere where there is space left. Usually.

But not this case.

This case is amazing. It addresses ALL of the problems hounded by previous "small" mITX cases. With this case, not only is it really small - but get this:

1. You can fit a FULL SIZE ATX PSU. Full size!
2. You can fit a GPU as long as 170mm which is full size!
3. Got a big chunky CPU cooler? There is 160mm of headspace for that!
4. Hard drives? Yes, you can fit not only a decently fast 3.5" HDD - but you can also fit an additional 2x2.5" HDDs also.

So, really, this is the mITX case with no compromises. You have a small box with huge cooling, big graphics, big power and drive space. Amazing but true... and you can get them in multiple colours.
It's also available via popular sites such as PC Case Gear for the amazingly expensive price of..... wait for it...... $79.

Yep. Cheap as chips too. Go buy it.