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New simulator uses 360 degree video / audio in Flash Player 10

RJ Owen
October 15, 2008 | | Comments (1)
RJ Owen
Intelligence Gaming announced their Immersive Cultural Simulation Product today, which uses a highly specialized Flex Application designed for Flash Player 10 to deliver full panoramic 360 degree video and 8 channels of binaural audio to users. Users participate in the simulations through use of a specialized headset that projects the display through goggles and the audio through a headset and moves the scene to correspond with changes in the user's head orientation.

Intelligence Gaming built the simulator as part of a new training program for the Army, which leverages the immersive technology to train soldiers in situational awareness outside of real danger. Read the full entry to learn more about the technology used in this project as well as more details about the simulations themselves.

Webmonkey creates forum for angsty iPhone developers

RJ Owen
September 28, 2008 | | Comments (3)
RJ Owen
If you've ever developed an iPhone application, or thought about developing an iPhone application, or thought, gee, I'd love to develop an iPhone application if it wasn't for that silly, restrictive, nonsensically awful Apple NDA, then this web app is for you. Webmonkey started an online forum charting the history of Apple's descent into Evil. It's conveniently available as an embed-able timeline (below.)

Skin to Win challenge ends Oct. 10

RJ Owen
September 26, 2008 | | Comments (0)
RJ Owen
The Scalenine "Skin To Win" challenge ends October 10th. If you're a Flex or AIR developer and you haven't gotten in on this action, what are you waiting for? There's a Macbook AIR, MAX tickets and more on the line. Get on it!

Adobe CS4 "It's going to be Brilliant" video

RJ Owen
September 25, 2008 | | Comments (3)
RJ Owen
Adobe released this video about CS4 on Adobe TV on Wednesday. It's long - about an hour - and contains just about everything you'd ever want to know about CS4.

An interview with KitchenSync creator, Mims Wright

RJ Owen
September 25, 2008 | | Comments (0)
RJ Owen
KitchenSync is an up-and-coming ActionScript 3.0 library for sequencing animations and other time-based actions. The project is focused on giving developers a smarter way to handle animation or other time-based, rather than frame-based, functionality with code. The whole project is geared towards using standard OO practices to make time-based synchronization easier on developers. Creator Mims Wright recently announced a Kitchen Sync demo contest which has generated some buzz around my office and got me interested in the project. The winners will have their entries demoed at the upcoming <head> conference. I recently caught up with Mims and had the opportunity to ask him some questions about the project. If you haven't heard of Mims before, he's a great developer who co-authored the Actionscript 3.0 Bible and has done a lot of great Flash work in his career. Mim's is a really friendly guy and agreed to an interview about KitchenSync.

Adobe CS4 Gets Release Date, Cool Website

RJ Owen
September 23, 2008 | | Comments (7)
RJ Owen
Early this morning Adobe announced that the latest edition of Creative Suite, number 4, will be released in October. I've been told that Adobe is currently targeting a release on the 15th, but that the date is subject to change. Read on to learn more about CS4, or checkout the the CS4 homepage.

Using Trac? Try Traction.

RJ Owen
September 18, 2008 | | Comments (9)
RJ Owen
If you've ever used Trac to track tickets for feature requests, bug fixes, or tasks, then you've probably been frustrated. Trac integrates well with SVN, allowing you to close or reference tickets in your SVN checkins and easily see the source each checkin adjusted, but it has an absolutely terrible UI. Terrible. Horrible, bad, very awful - one of the worst things I've had to deal with since becoming a UI developer. Enter Traction. Traction is an AIR application written by Greg Owen (yup, we're related) that replaces Trac's front-end with something easier to use. It allows you to edit multiple tickets at once and aggregates the changes periodically. If you're a project lead or a project manager responsible for managing tickets, Traction is for you.

Alan Cooper on Agile Software

RJ Owen
September 8, 2008 | | Comments (2)
RJ Owen
Alan Cooper is an experienced software developer and interaction designer who's been around for a while. He runs a consulting firm, writes a lot of books, and is called the "father of Visual Basic." Alan Cooper has been on the forefront of experience design and software development for a while now. He's been in the trenches, seen what works and what doesn't, and now he's decided to share some of his experience on software process and why Agile software is best. Cooper was asked to deliver a keynote at the recent Agile 2008 conference, held in Toronto earlier this August. His slides with accompanying notes are available on his website, and make a really great presentation both for those already converted to agile methods and those who've heard the term but don't really know what it's about.

Google Chrome: The Comic

RJ Owen
September 6, 2008 | | Comments (6)
RJ Owen
Google chose to launch its Chrome browser with a comic book about the browser, among other things. In this entry I talk about the book itself, its value as a piece of information design, and a little about the book's author, renown comic book artist Scott McCloud.

AIR, Java, and Robots

RJ Owen
September 4, 2008 | | Comments (0)
RJ Owen
Jordan Snyder turned more than a few heads at 360Flex when she demoed a lego Mindstorm robot controlled through an AIR interface. Adam Flater took some videos of the 'bot (since named "Nathan") cruising around the eBay campus. Cool stuff, to say the least. Videos of the bot and some more info on this project in the full entry.

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