I’ve recently discovered ParaView, a tool for visualising data I hadn’t come across before.When it comes to data I guess I’m used to web based stuff. You know the kind of thing, throw something a few triples and watch it generate a Network Graph or the overused D3.js type stuff. Read more…
Or is it an agent based model enviroment masquerading as a MORPG engine? Untiled is a cleverly titled experimental html 5 RPG engine without tiles being developed by Scott Wilson. It’s got some neat capabilities in which everything in the engine is an object that can be handled in Read more…
Depending on your hardware/Android version screen recording on Android could be absolute pain. Google have tried to fix the problem by putting native screen recording in to the latest release of android, and actually it’s pretty good. If you own a Nexus 4/7 you should be getting your rollout soon Read more…
According to Wikipedia there are eight generations of video game consoles, each generation defined by the consoles that are released and the innovations they make. We are at the start of the eighth generation with the PS4 and Xbox one about to hit the shelves this month. Releasing a console Read more…
If you haven’t seen Bitstrips then good, I won’t force them upon you. It’s right up there with Buzzfeed in terms of high quality entertainment. But if you have a group of friends bombarding you with them then you will be glad that Facebook makes it quite easy to block Read more…
I am really surprised at how easy it is to create content on the web that is Oculus Rift compatible. I’ve been using a small software program called Oculus Bridge to get tracking information to the browser (via websockets) and a WebGL library called three.js to make 3D worlds. While playing Read more…
So far with my Rift I’ve had a go at creating a virtual world that imports data (just text at this point) from my personal corpus/personal api and displaying them in a room. I wanted people to be able to go trot around a virtual world, view bits of text Read more…
I haven’t had time to try Torque 3D with the Oculus Rift, but it seems a very quick, easy and free way to start developing for my Oculus Rift.You’ll need: Torque 3D : http://mit.garagegames.com/Torque3D-3-0.zip Torque 3d Rift Template: http://mit.garagegames.com/Rift-Template-3-0.zip Oculus VR SDK which you should get from logging in to your developer Read more…
Around this time every year all my feeds are full of fantasy football teams. I wanted to join in; but I can’t be bothered with football. Instead I’ve created a fantasy team of data exploration tools. Looking back at my team these probably aren’t the best tools, they are just Read more…
EDIT: Using Oculus Rift on MAC OS X video post can be found here. This post is a failed experiment on Getting started in Xcode with the SDK. Yloly has left some useful tips to help me in the comments section of this post. If anyone else has any pointers Read more…
