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South Korean "avatar theme park" looks like a science museum on speed.
Dubbed “mixed reality architecture,” South Korea’s Live Park has more than 60 exhibits enable by RFID, Kinect, and other motion-sensing technologies. The above is obviously a promo video, but with more than $13m in investment, it’s certainly something that modern museums could learn from to make the
PAUSE: A French publishing house’s hot-air balloon takes flight in this amazing iPad game.
Kevin Slavin points us to Balloon paperApp by French publishing house Les éditions volumiques with a fascinating spin on augmented reality games. The shadow work is really what makes the project work.
Police officer plays out every gamer’s nightmare IRL.
You know what can be the worst? When you’ve lost your perspective in a game and can’t maneuver you/the camera out of your weird quagmire where you’re accidentally running into a wall because you can’t figure out how to swing the camera and then all of a sudden you just get straight SHOT. Maybe that’
PAUSE: Are three lines of a Commodore 64 code enough to inspire poetry?
At Pace Digital Gallery this month, the new show Codings aims to show the computer as “an aesthetic, programmed device that computes on characters” on par with poetry. The curators explain: A three-line version of this program appeared in original 1982 _Commodore 64 User’s Guide:_ 10 PRINT “{CLR/HOM
How the Weinstein’s rating fight might mean a lot for games.
Bully is a documentary from The Weinstein Company on bullying coming out later this year. Recently, the MPAA gave the film an R rating which was appealed by the Weinsteins and after losing, they threatened to leave the MPAA. The crux of the Weinstein’s argument, as highlighted in the article on Slas
PAUSE: A quote from Albert Einstein says everything we couldn’t about writing about games.
Our friends over at Mr. Gif devised this simple illustration from a quote from the great Dr. Einstein. As a writer about games, I worry that we value encyclopedic knowledge about what games are what rather than what games are. -Jamin Warren [via Mr. Gif]
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