January 30, 2014
By: Chip Bobbert II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH-439XCkCg I just installed VMware Fusion 6 and found this great little feature that lets you easily install OS X as a virtual machine. For those wondering why I would want to run Apple's OS on a machine already running...
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January 27, 2014
By: Stephen Toback
Thanks to Paul Zylowski and Jack D'Ardenne for arranging a tour of the spectacular Hunt Library at NCSU's Centennial Campus. Below is a Flickr PhotoStream and short YouTube video. The photostream has more details in the descriptions of the pictures....
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By: Todd Stabley
Crestron just released an interesting new whitepaper tackling the challenges of working with 4k video from an integrator's perspective. I thought it looks at some interesting issues such as emerging "tweener" resolutions between 1080p and 4k. Other topics covered include:...
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By: pz18@duke.edu
Your mobile device can already see the world. Now, it can understand the world. Measure entire rooms all at once. The magic of 3D depth sensing begins with the ability to capture accurate dimensions of objects and environments. And...
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January 23, 2014
By: Stephen Toback
Since we shot our 4k footage last summer, we've been seeking a way to use the full resolution of the 4k images in an HD workflow. We believe that in the near term (and maybe even the long term) using...
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January 16, 2014
By: Jack D'Ardenne
This works for new or existing accounts. You just need to install their new iOS app and login. After logging in on the new iOS app, your storage limit will then be upgraded to 50GB. It looks like this deal...
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By: Jack D'Ardenne
OIT-ITS recently purchased a Google Chromecast to test with, which unfortunately, we can't use on Duke's network. It turns out that the Google Chromecast requires multicast to be enabled on the network it is connected to. This is NOT something...
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By: Chip Bobbert II
https://vimeo.com/84259861 Jack showed me a cool product called Leap Motion the other day. I took a few minutes to play with it and can definitely see a wide range of applications. What is it? Basically it's a sensor system that...
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January 15, 2014
By: Chip Bobbert II
Along with our 3D printers we received 3D scanner and have had a a few opportunities to play with it and learned quite a bit. At first take our scans weren't really successful and I was actually a little bit...
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January 13, 2014
By: Chip Bobbert II
3D research is still going string in the Media Lab. Today we reviewed a really cool application from from Autodesk called 123D Catch. The concept of the application is simple, basically you use your cameras photos to take panoramic shots...
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