Category: Art

Wearing headphones at a concert isn’t as weird as I thought it would be

[ad_1] All of this is, objectively, pretty neat. But what matters is the experience of using it at a concert, and I have to say that despite my skepticism, I was pretty impressed. For one, there is absolutely zero latency. The audio was synced up perfectly the entire time, no matter where I was positioned […]

Magic Leap goes to the theater

[ad_1] “The Seven Ages of Man” first appeared at Sundance Film Festival last year. The three-minute experience shows a volumetrically captured actor reciting the famous speech from “As You Like It.” As he describes the human passage through stages of life, a digital tree in the background blooms then slowly wastes away. In another demo, […]

Jessica Brillhart seeks truth in immersive media

[ad_1] Brillhart started out at Google’s creative filmmaking arm, crafting documentaries on topics like Instant Search, quantum computing and AI. But eventually, she was tapped to help the company’s early 360-degree video experiments, which led to other projects like her DeepDream VR experiment. And even though we’re several years into the rise of consumer VR, […]

Robots are playing ASMR-infused techno at SXSW

[ad_1] “When I’m searching for new sounds and new robots, I’m thinking of like, I need this sound in music,” Geist said. “If I would make my track in the computer, I would need like a hi-hat or whatever. So I’m thinking, how could this be done in the real world? OK, a noise like […]

‘Every Thing Every Time’ builds poetry from the smart city

[ad_1] It was an echo of some of the things happening in Austin at that moment, a kind of live poetic commentary on the commonplace. Every minute, the board refreshed; it continues to generate 1,440 poems each day. The installation, called “EVERY THING EVERY TIME,” is the work of Naho Matsuda, a German-Japanese artist and […]

Facebook is using AR to bring a massive mural to life

[ad_1] Down the road, the company plans to expand its “AR/T” program to other places in the US and abroad, as it looks to work with more local artists and developers on ways to put a technology twist on their art. “We feel really strongly about the value of the analog, like the materials,” Jessica […]

I bled for 'Game of Thrones' for the right and wrong reasons

[ad_1] How could HBO outdo its massive Westworld role-playing experience from last year's SXSW? By asking Game of Thrones fans to prove their devotion by drawing blood. Bleed for the Throne, the network's massive blood drive in partnership with the Red Cros… [ad_2] Source link

Steinway releases high-tech piano that records your performance

[ad_1] Resident pianist John Batiste from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert gave the Spirio | r a whirl on Tuesday night at the Steinway Hall in New York City, reports CNET. Batiste played and recorded a Sam Cooke piece. The piano then played back the song exactly as Batiste had played it, while he […]

Elektron Model:Samples review: A powerful groovebox for beginners

[ad_1] Note: The video above mistakenly states that the Novation Circuit does not have velocity sensitive pads. The review below correctly reflects that it does. Synthesizers and samplers are starting to look more and more like consumer electronics…. [ad_2] Source link