Interactive Media Award: American Horror Story – Murder House
The agency recently received an Interactive Media Award for work on American Horror Story - Murder House. Congratulations to every member of our team that worked on it!
You can see the award at their official website, or check it out below:
Hands on with Xbox SmartGlass
At E3, I was wowed by a demonstration of Microsoft’s SmartGlass. The application brought a second screen to the Xbox 360 experience, offering an alternative way to control the device through the use of a smartphone. About 5 months later, Smartglass has arrived. Earlier this week I had a chance to play around with it. How does it stack up to the demonstration I saw? Read on to find out.
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The Future - Vision and Reality, Part 1: Envisioning the Absurd Future in the Past
“The only thing that we can be sure of the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic.” — Sir Arthur C. Clarke, 1964
This is part of a series of blogs on visions of the future. Although rather complex when accurately taking into consideration socio-political, ethical, and cultural aspects, we shall focus primarily on technology and the user experiences that we expect to find in the near or distant future. But before we examine our current ideas of the future, let us go back in time and see how people envisioned our presence. As tempting as it is to laugh off historic visions of the future today, it might prove helpful to examine them. Common mistakes seem to be made whenever we try to envision the future.
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Meeting Fijit: Mattel’s New Interactive Toy
We recently received a Fijit at the office and decided to record ourselves opening and playing with it. The second video is in the full post below. Enjoy!
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