Mario Kart in Real Life True 3d
Highly illegal, real life version of Mario Kart performed by Rémi Gaillard.
One of the most impressive demonstrations at E3 2010 wasn’t a game, and wasn’t the 3DS (though that was pretty neat.) It was actually a little tech demo tucked away in the back of one of the halls that could completely change the way we see characters in games.
Making of “The Crevasse”, a street art piece by the amazing Edgar Mueller.
Thanks, Mike
Source: youtube.com
Visit Virtual Rome
Oliver Reed recalls the glory days in Ridley Scott’s film Gladiator.
The Google Earth 3D map software just got even better, thanks to the addition of a virtual Ancient Rome. By the way, if you’ve managed to miss the Internet boat for the last three years, you owe it to yourself to try the free Google Earth application. As you spin a virtual globe of the Earth, zooming in and out of any location in the planet in whiz-bang 3D glory, you will believe you are the mighty Thunder God himself.
One caveat: if you can walk faster than your Internet connection and your PC is as old the Coliseum itself, Google Earth won’t be your friend.
From BBC news:
Google has added a new twist to its popular 3D map
tool, Google Earth, offering millions of users the chance to visit a
virtual ancient Rome.
Google has reconstructed the sprawling city - inhabited by more than one million people as long ago as AD320.
Users can zoom around the map to visit the Forum of Julius
Caesar, stand in the centre of the Colosseum or swoop over the
Basilica.
Researchers behind the project say it adds to five centuries of knowledge.
“This is another step in creating a virtual time
machine,” said Bernard Frischer of the University of Virginia, which
worked with Google on the Roman reconstruction.
“The project is a continuation of five centuries of research by
scholars, architects and artists since the Renaissance, who have
attempted to restore the ruins of the ancient city with words, maps and
images,” he said.
Cubisto 3D Display Frame
If you’re one of those people that just loves to collect all sorts of random objects, now you have a frame to float them in, literally. A contraption called the Cubisto allows you to sandwich just about anything between two layers of stretchy transparent film surrounded by a snap-on frame that comes in a variety of colors. Now you ‘ll finally have a place to put little Bobby’s umbilical cord on display.
From the seller’s web site:
Cubisto might sound like a gravy-drinking superhero but it’s actually a revolutionary framing system that allows you to display cherished items and collectables in a unique new way. And that’s got to be good news because shelves and sideboards are seriously last century.
The idea is to sandwich your nick-nacks (no sniggering at the back!)between the two sheets of ultra-stretchy transparent material within each Cubisto block. Simply pull the block apart, pop in your item of choice and snap back together. Hey presto, your favourite 3D object appears to be floating in mid-air. It’s a bit like that portal thingy that General Zod gets imprisoned in at the start of Superman. Well that’s what we think.
Via Popgadget
