Touch the virtual

By Clark BoydThe World, WGBH BostonLaptops and smartphones allow easy access computing power, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology want to go one step further by turning the entire world into a computer.At this year’s Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) conference in Boston, the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT’s Media Lab unveiled the latest prototype of SixthSense, a wearable, gesture-driven computing platform that can continually augment the physical world with digital infor

By Clark BoydThe World, WGBH BostonLaptops and smartphones

By Clark BoydThe World, WGBH BostonLaptops and smartphones allow easy access computing power, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology want to go one step further by turning the entire world into a computer.At this year’s Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) conference in Boston, the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT’s Media Lab unveiled the latest prototype of SixthSense, a wearable, gesture-driven computing platform that can continually augment the physical world with digital infor

Christopher Campbell’s The Moviegoer – Are 3-D Movies Threatened by Football, the Economy or Themselves?

As an excited supporter of digital 3-D second only to Jeffrey Katzenberg, I was disappointed to learn only after the fact that the NFL and 3ality Digital transmitted last Thursday's Raiders vs Chargers football game live in 3-D to cinemas in Los Angeles, New York and Boston. I don't care for football in the slightest, but I would have loved to be there, just to experience the technology. Of course, even had I known about the event beforehand, I probably wouldn't have gotten into the screenings