Augmented Reality Cookies, Anyone? We're Stuffed, Thanks.
We understand that SIGGRAPH frequently exhibits the most outre and ridiculous tech experiments -- the ones that could be useful on a larger scale and within a different context. But Takuji Narumi of Tokyo University may be the winner of the Most Insane Research award for his Meta Cookie System, which seems to serve no purpose but to advance the idea that our future lies in a simulated reality ...
The 36th annual Siggraph conference, which celebrates "computer graphics and interactive techniques," hit New Orleans last week with exhibits ranging from animation workshops to displays of 'emerging technologies' like the Pull-Navi ear-navigator. One of the more intriguing exhibits, presented by Texas A&M University's (A&M) visualization department, featured a "deep immersion," ...









