Twitter got me on the ITV Central Lunchtime News

Last Wednesday night a fire broke out on Goldsmith Street about 2am.

I live opposite where the fire started, and being on the 6th floor with probably the best view of the fire, I decided to film some of it as it developed.

The next morning I wanted to see if I could get my video on the news.

I contact Sky News, BBC and ITV through various upload methods, email and Twitter and within 6 minutes of me sending my tweet to @ITVCentral I had a reply!

I then emailed them my video and had a reply saying it might be on the 1.55pm lunchtime News.

They weren't lying, so here it is. My 5 seconds of fame!

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An Introduction to QR Codes

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Adobe Flash coming to iPhone, thanks to Skyfire

Adobe Flash is finally coming to the iPhone … thanks to Skyfire.

Skyfire is a web browser for the iPhone platform, but with a difference. It offers the ability for iPhone users to view Flash video content by transcoding it into HTML5 on the fly. Skyfire for iPhone was built in accordance with Apple guidelines, including the use of a WebKit browser core shared with Safari, and h.264 adaptive streaming and has been approved by Apple for inclusion in the App Store.

As well as transcoding Flash video, Skyfire offers several features not offered by the built-in Safari browser:

• Related Content – The “Explore” icon recommends relevant content (news, video, tweets, etc.) based on the page they’re viewing at the time.
• Sharing – The “Share” icon lets users share any article or video easily with their friends on Facebook, Twitter or e-mail.
• User Agent Switching - load pages for either mobile or desktop.

• Privacy - Keep your browsing private, with no data trail.

Skyfire will be hitting the Apple App Store this Thursday, priced at $2.99.

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Personal Research Project - Love Plus and their Augmented Reality Girlfriends

Quick Response Codes and Augmented Reality can improve our ability to share information and communicate ideas and concepts with each other, however in using them in their most extravagant forms, for example Augmented Reality girlfriends which promotes communication with virtual characters, could this separate the user from social inclusion in the real world?

Here's what I mean by Augmented Reality girlfriends -

Love Plus for iPhone

2:48 - Love Plus Augmented Reality girlfriend

Now how would your Love Plus AR girlfriend look animated?

More inflammation on the subject - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20015133-1.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Thinking about the artifacts that are going to come from my research project, I'm looking into making an AR Application for myself. It was also suggested that I might make my own AR girlfriend but I think that was just for comedy value.

ARToolKit

http://www.hitl.washington.edu/artoolkit/news/index.php

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Digital Hero - Complete

Completed version of my simulated client project can be found here

Are you a Digital Hero?

I've also had a chance to have a look at some other students' projects. Here are a select few -

Stephen Greig's

http://stephengreig.co.uk/digital-piracy-facts-figures/

Daryl Brunsden

http://db-designs.eu/test/piracy/

George Wood

http://www.gsdesignuk.com/piracy/index.html

Anthony Birks

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Time To Get Down To Business

I've been meaning to update my online portfolio for a while but haven't had time to do so, but now I'm slowly in the process of drawing up some mock-ups.

My new site will be clean and crisp utilising my new found love for QR Codes, and hopefully some AR, depending on how I get on. I also want to design it using the new HTML5 and CSS3 techniques with a splash of stylish jQuery. I'm hoping to follow the same styling as my Twitter page too.

In the process of drawing some things up, I found this site -

http://qr-code-generator.iwwwit.com/generateur-qr-code.php

It allows you to generate QR Codes that can send tweets, emails and even log on to a WiFi Hotspot. I have therefore tried it out for myself on the image above. I may decided to incorporate these ideas into my new design too.

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QR Code Art That You Can Digitally Attach Comments To

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I spotted this a few days ago. A really nice piece of QR Code Art! Here's more information about the prints -

A new collection of 10 limited edition prints. QR code decodes to a twitter search about #qr, and their is a stickybits code that allows you to attach digital comments to the print itself. Enjoy. If you dont have the stickybits application, please leave comments by visiting this link- http://bit.ly/9umKuI

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Examples of Augmented Reality at it's Best

Augmented Reality by Hitlab
Some brilliant examples of AR in action, and this was all back in 2007.

David Wood's AR CV
Possibly the best CV I've ever seen! This would be an amazing project to do as one of my artifacts within my personal research project.

Jason Bradbury and creating the first AR CV
Here's how David's AR CV was created. A little behind the scenes video presented by Jason Bradbury.

AR4BC - Augmented Reality for Building and Construction (2010)
Practical uses of AR withing the construction industry.

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My Personal Research Project

My PRP Question
Could the use of QR Codes and Augmented Reality improve the way we share information and communicate with each other?

Some notes and points I'm hoping to look at...

Using QR Codes and Augmented Reality to develop the way we network with each other.

• Business cards imprinted with QR Codes that will play a short bio of yourself when looked at through an Augmented Reality applicaition,
• Using an Augmented Reality app in a conference to get information about the speakers. Face recognition software within an AR application that would display virtual information about the lecturer/speaker. The ablity for the speaker to control what he wanted to display about himself and to add Facebook, LastFM, Twitter, Personal Website or even an email address,
• Using a QR Code in speed dating, on an item of clothing to display a short bio of the person on your mobile,
• Love Plus, a Japanese dating simulation, displaying their virtual girlfriends through the reading of a QR Code producing an Augmented Reality model. This isn’t improving the way we communicate with others,
• A development to this technology would be the ability to wear Augmented Reality glasses that would be able to see all this information instantly. You wouldn’t have to rely on your mobile phone,
• Using these technologies, would it decrease the amount we communicated with each other? If you could get to know someone without talking to them,
• Although privacy would be a concern, you would be able to limit what you displayed to your audience exactly like your Facebook page,
• The way that brand could communicate with their audiences. it’s done at a more personal level by offering extra content to the individual,
• It only improves the way we communicate information with each other if the information/content is valuable and optimised for viewing on a mobile device,
• Does it promote lazyness? Would we rather use a QR Code to get to a website rather than to type in a URL because we want speed and ease.

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A Few Pictures from GameCity5

I've been stewarding at GameCity5 for the last few days and I really enjoyed it. If you didn't get change to sign up to volunteer this year, then sign up for next year! It's really good experience.

Here are some pictures from the festival.

Now it's back to work. My personal research project and my live client project.

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