In Traction

I read an article about Everyscape. Everyscape tries to give its users an immersive experience by stitching together a set of panoramic photographs, in contrast with the satellite imagery that is being used by other tools such as Google Earth. I played a bit with the NY demo and was pretty impressed.

Apparently their web-based software is based on the initial software by the founder’s previous company, Mok3. There is a great video that shows a tour through a long hallway at MIT which was constructed of only 20 panoramic photographs. I found another (less impressive) Youtube video of Mok3’s software:

It reminded me a bit of Microsoft’s Photosynth, which was presented at TED this year:

I’m attending two interesting talks this month (together with some colleagues).

Adam Greenfield is coming to Leuven on November 27th. He wrote the book Everyware: the dawning age of ubiquitous computing and gave a keynote at Pervasive this year.

Next Monday, I’m going to Living Tomorrow in Vilvoorde for a session on the Internet of Things. I still have to figure out some issues with the registration though.

Last week, we got all the fish out of our pond again:

We mostly grow tench. This year, we had a nice mutation among one of these fishes:

A normal tench is completely green, while this fellow’s head was dark yellow instead. The color was a bit darker than that of the golden tench. These fish tend to vary a lot in color gradation according the conditions they live in (e.g. green to brown with the normal tench). We had another tench that had a long, flowing tail almost like an oranda, but unfortunately I didn’t manage to get it on picture.