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Adrian Belina from the award winning Jam 3 Media at http://jam3media.com came in to give a talk on Motion Graphics to the students of the Sheridan Interactive Multimedia one year post grad program.  Adrian is a co-founder of Jam 3 along with Mark McQuillan and Pablo Vio.  All three graduated the same year from Sheridan [...]

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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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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 [...]

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Bill Buxton of Alias | Wavefront fame reminded us at the recent Digifest conference that “Technologies take 20 years to reach fruition”. Many technologies of the day are based on the work of pioneers.
Dan Zen, Professor at Sheridan in the Interactive Multimedia Program, was at Digifest preparing for this year’s newly launched Multimedia Pioneering course [...]

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Adam Gallant from Microsoft previewed Longhorn, the upcoming Microsoft Operating System. Of interest to the students was the new WinFS where meta information is stored in a database to make file-finding easier, Avalon to ensure that everything including the Operating System interface gets access to accelerated 3D and Sparkle which provides XAML access to animated [...]

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