At the UK Iron Man 2 website, users can use their webcams to get suited up with either an Iron Man or War Machine helmet, as well as take a look at what the HUD (heads up display) would look like through Iron Man or War Machine's perspectives.
These sorts of features are pretty standard AR-fare these days, but what makes the Iron Man 2 approach interesting is that you can record your interactions and then link to the videos on Facebook or Twitter or embed them on your own website.
Rendering the customized video takes a really long time so I'll save you all from seeing me aimlessly moving my head around, but you can still get insight into how this tech works in this demo:
Before you can start having AR fun, you'll need to install a plugin on your Windows or Mac computers but after that, set-up is a snap. We love seeing this sort of technology, especially when it can be customized and shareable.
What do you think of how movie studios use AR to promote films and characters? Let us know!
Tags: Augmented Reality, Film, Iron Man 2, Marvel, Movies
Rosenthal writes in the press release, "We will phase out our free service. Existing free networks will have the opportunity to either convert to paying for premium services, or transition off of Ning."
Sponsor
According to the release, paying subscribers account for 75% of the service's traffic. These fees have ranged from $4.95 per month to use your own domain name, to $24.95 per month to remove Ning's promotional links, although it's unclear if those fees will change.
But the service has long been used by many small groups and organization, many of which are in a tail-spin over today's announcement. Educators in particular have found Ning to be useful, as both a tool for classroom collaboration and for professional development. Tom Whitby, founder of the Educator PLN Ning, expressed his frustrations this morning: "Ning is throwing us under the bus."
Lisa Sjogren, a technology coordinator for the Osseo Area Schools in Minnesota echoed the frustrations of many teachers, noting that Ning's decision was a "big headache" that threw a wrench in a six-month-long, district-wide technology integration and standards project. Like many educators and non profits who work with limited budgets, Sjogren is now tasked with finding a new site where she can host her project for free. For teachers that already struggle to convince their districts to not block social networking sites, requesting funding to join or host sites might not be feasible.
Ning is, of course, not the only platform for creating personalized and private social networks. This afternoon, many educators shared suggestions for alternatives via Twitter. Here are a few other free and open-source options.
While many are looking at Ning's announcement today as a reflection on the success or failure of a freemium model, for many users of Ning's free services, that lesson is a bitter one.
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Thom Cochrane
Academic Advisor (elearning & Learning Technologies)
Unitec
New Zealand
Just a quick narrative of how the project came about.
Tackle what you know will be a benefit
This project came about by accident. It was never our attention to develop a Moodle/iPhone/iPod solution from the start. Actually, we were just happy working on a continued medical education for HCWs that previously did not have access to updated learning material. But as we got feedback from the HCWs in the field, we saw the need to adapt Moodle to enable complete access for the iPhone. The iPhone did work with the MLE, but it did not allow access to all the interactive features of Moodle. So we only took action as it had a clear purpose that could benefit our learner target group.
Standing on the shoulders of giants
The coding got developed by looking at what was already there, and thinking about what would be relevant to have.
Trust the world and its communities
Whenever we were confronted with a problem, it was posted on one of the mobile Moodle forums, so everyone could think collaboratively. An open community that can give support while developing any type of application is a strong benefit for any endeavor.
Move forward starting with little steps
http://m.blogtalkradio.com/bethebee/2010/03/19/tweeps-talk-tech
Link to podcast of the show below
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bethebee/2010/03/19/tweeps-talk-tech.mp3?localembed=HTML32mobile&uid=4e9d3895-6c92-4e46-b58c-0d5ea7b0a776&protocol=http
Sent from my iPhone
http://lisae294.vox.com/library/post/the-first-for-2010-yes-i-still-hate-technology.html
Sent from my iPhone
View Lisa's KiwiFM radio interview on her Twitter FAME on:
Moodle and iPhone update: the movie: "For those wanting to see a glimpse of the interaction behind the application that allows the iPhone (or iPod) to access Moodle. Look at this uploaded movie:
In the meantime the iPhone/Moodle platform is getting into shape:
http://iphone.moodle.com.au
Things moving on several fronts: getting proposals out, checking codes, making coding manuals (thank you very much Beto!).
(Via Ignatia Webs.)
We are using Twitter to communicate between New Zealand, Ireland and Chile for a collaborative Product design student project.
Students have setup Twitter accounts and begun 'tweeting', with their Lecturers also using Twitter to respond, guide and inform their students during the project.
Serendipitously, an online PODCast show host has chosen one of our students at random to get them to the top of the twitter followed list and make them famous!
Lisa's "I hate technology" tweet caought the PODCast show hosts eye and recommended all his listeners follow her on Twitter. 24 hours later she has over 8600 followers. The goal is to get more than 15000 followers in a week, and one of Lisa's follows (at random) will win an Apple iPod from Leo Laporte, as will Lisa herself!
Lisa's Twitter page: http://twitter.com/LisaTickledPink
Leo has also taken Lisa to the top of DIGG: http://digg.com/comedy/Leo_Laporte_takes_a_stranger_to_the_top_of_Twitter
Leo Laportes PODCast show: http://twit.tv
Episode on "I Hate Technology" - watch the video from 24 minutes to 30 minutes, and 1 hour 26 minutes to view the sections on Lisa's story! http://twit.tv/238
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Permalink | | Email this | CommentsQik today announced, via its blog, that it is making Qik Premium available for select Nokia devices through the Ovi Store. Qik is an application / service allows you to stream video live from your smartphone to the web. Advantages of the premium version include improved processing on uploaded videos (higher quality play back and improved speed on low bandwidth connections), unlimited storage space and the ability to download videos (that you have uploaded to Qik) to your PC.
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