We had another great visit to GestureTek in Toronto where Vincent Jon Vincent showed us around the gesture control systems – like Minority Report and the multitouch tables.
A couple groups of students are making applications to run on the GestureTek systems for the upcoming Ontario Premier Awards as part of their combined Multimedia Pioneering / [...]
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Sheridan Interactive Multimedia Visits GestureTek to view Multitouch Tables and Motion Interface Systems
Posted in Events, Mulitimedia Pioneering, Speakers, tagged acesbloggers, gesture, gesturetek, IMM, interactive, interface, itbloggers, multimedia pioneering, multitouch, oakville, Sheridan, Toronto on February 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Working on Tilt for Mobile Devices
Posted in Flash, Mulitimedia Pioneering, tagged air, cell, emulator, Flash, iphone, Mobile, multimedia, pitch, roll, Sheridan, sheridan interactive multimedia, tilt, translation, yaw on November 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We are working on Tilt and Translation games and applications for mobile devices this year. The project ideas are really cool and we look forward to showing them a the Spring Open House.
More information can be found here: http://danzen.wordpress.com and a video of the emulator in action can be seen here: Video: Tilt Emulator for [...]
Video Motion Input Prototypes to be Shown at Canadian New Media Awards
Posted in Awards, Curriculum, Flash, Mulitimedia Pioneering, Press Releases, code on May 9, 2007 | 7 Comments »
The video motion cursor work of our Sheridan Interactive Multimedia grads will be shown at the Canadian New Media Awards in Toronto at the Carlu on May 28, 2007. http://www.cnma.ca/nerds/.
The video motion cursor class which turns video motion in a Web cam into cursor movement was written by professor Dan Zen in Flash AS2.0 [...]
Wayne MacPhail on Web 2.0 and Second Life
Posted in Blogs, Mulitimedia Pioneering, Speakers on February 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Wayne MacPhail from W8NC came in to our Sheridan Interactive Multimedia lab and gave an fantastic overview of Web 2.0 Applications discussing primarily the social aspects surrounding tagging, RSS, bookmarks, etc. He also showed his work in Second Life, the virtual world. Below you will find Blog entries from the students about [...]
Interactive Interactive 2007 Photos
Posted in Events, Mulitimedia Pioneering on February 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Interactive Interactive was a success – please view the pictures here: http://www.danzen.com/ii along with captions and summaries of the features. McMaster and Sheridan students showed multimedia on futuristic SMART boards at the Hamilton Artists Inc.
A big thanks to all who helped out: Bob and Mark, our tech guys; students – Anthony, Alisa [...]



