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A transcript of the full speech can be found here: http://web.archive.org/web/20080213082423/http://www.marginalia.org/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html.

The basic idea of the IllumiRoom setup is that you tap into visual content from a console and have that content affect how a projector displays additional/augmented/related content onto the walls surrounding your TV – you’ve really got to see it to get it:

Interesting, huh? I like the idea, but… it seems a little impractical to have a projector on your coffee table. Also, to really take full advantage games would have to be created which deliberately interact with this system, which is increased developer effort, and how many people will have and use one of these devices? I really do like the idea, but I just don’t see it reaching critical mass right now. If there was a drive for people to move from buying large TVs to projectors in the first place – then maybe it would stand more of a chance of gaining high adoption, but in that case you generally clear the projection surface so it wouldn’t have to compensate for room geometry in the first place. Still, it’s a great idea and some very cool tech!

Physics simulations are always interesting, and this one is probably the best liquid sim I’ve ever seen, all running live on a top-end NVidia GPU:

You can read the paper about how it all works here, if you’d like. I don’t think NVidia are gonna hand out the source code, but they’re likely to incorporate it somewhere in the next PhysX release.

I caught this mesmerising teaser for a music video (directed by Nacho Guzman) over on BoingBoing the other day, and I guess I came for the video, but stayed for the music…

If you’re down with its dark, electronic vibe also, you can find the full track plus a longer remix version over on their SoundCloud page here: https://soundcloud.com/opaleopale.

Beautiful stuff.

That guy’s a terror since the public-school era:

This one’s also excellent (it’s still Party in the USA – but mixed to “I Got a Story to Tell You” instead of “Party and Bullshit”) – in fact, it might even be the superior mix as it contains absolutely zero Miley Cyrus (just the Party in the USA riff).