procrastineering.blogspot.com - 29 days ago
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This year, I'm helping the User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) conference put their proceedings videos online so that more people can access them. So far, I've gotten most of the videos from this year uploaded to the conference YouTube account . If you've closely followed the tech ...
gamepro.com - 29 days ago
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gamepro.com —
Activision's goal is to expand the franchise to
attract new players with differing tastes, but Guitar Hero...
CEO Dan Rosensweig is quick to note that the franchise already has a large female following.
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30 percent of Guitar Hero players are girls
kotaku.com - 29 days ago
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kotaku.com —
Welcome to Bobby Kotick's nightmare, a world in
which Guitar Hero controllers could be rendered useless ,...
a world in which video games can be played by monitoring muscle actions. A brave new air guitar future! In reality, this technical ...
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Wonder At The Guitar Hero Muscle Controller [Clips]
patentarcade.com - 10/21/2009
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patentarcade.com —
Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., along with a host
of game retailers, is asking a court in Tennessee...
to resume proceedings in a patent suit brought by Gibson Guitar Corporation over the "Guitar Hero" line of video games. The suit was filed by Gibson in ...
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Back on Stage in the Guitar Hero/Gibson Suit?
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Wonder At The Guitar Hero Muscle Controller [Clips]
Kotaku —
... playing with traditional plastic. But the work done here by Scott Saponas, a PhD student at the University of Washington, and his peers could provide some of the tactile feedback missing from other motion control options, like Microsoft's Project Natal. The non-gaming applications are just as fascinating, especially the theoretical car door opening baby carriage. Much better than the personal jet packs and silver jumpsuits I had planned for my own futuristic lifestyle. Guitar Hero without a guitar [Procrastineering]
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Muscle sensors: next big thing in game control?
TechRadar: Gaming news —
... Procrastineering notes that one of their favorite projects this year "was a muscle sensing system that (among other things) allows you to play Guitar Hero without a guitar". ...
Science makes Air Guitar Hero a reality
Joystiq —
University of Washington Ph.D. student Scott Saponas demonstrated his muscle-movement interface for computer systems, by using it to control a familiar application: Guitar Hero. The system appears to guess finger movements by reading the signals from muscles in the forearm. The result: a true air guitar experience. In the custom Guitar Hero setup, the player can hold frets simply by touching a finger with his thumb, and strum by, well, strumming the air. See it in action after the break! ...
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