Innovation

When I attended Picnic 09 a month ago in Amsterdam I saw some amazing demos during Picnic Labs and listened to people with amazing ideas (as often in Picnic as well as in the Next Web which is much more dedicated to Internet !). But both are based on people’s creativity !

Many of them were having links with the virtual and augmented reality, 3D, immersion, games, design, RFID, interaction, convergence…
- augmented and virtual reality (the virtual continuum of Paul Milgram)
- Machinima (movies made with 3D on real time using video games engines)
- Immersive journalism : a novel way to utilize gaming platforms and virtual environments to convey news, documentary and non-fiction stories. Those platforms might offer audiences an immersive experience that can complement and extend reporting in traditional news media
- Natal project of Microsoft Office Labs: it’s a new motion-control, you don’t need anymore a remote control to play video games (you interact with your own body). Not new but still fascinating !  and its Milo Project : a virtual-person game.
- the Emotiv EPOC™ that is a high resolution, neuro-signal acquisition and processing wireless neuroheadset
- the web of things : such as the WaNomirror of No Design which is a mirror but it is also an object that provides information and services. It is both a screen and network window that displays thoughts sent on Internet by your friends or the subjects you are interested in, from the Internet service Twitter.
- Augmented reality of a city : YDreams

and many more…

If you want to have details, have a look on the Picnic web site and links about it.  
There was also the Green Challende Postcode Lottery : some infos soon…

Another point is the creativity of the  Picnic shows and the nice and pleasant places where you can meet very easily people. You feel at ease there.

Maybe we will see some of those demos in Laval during the 12th International Conference on Virtual Reality (Laval Virtual) next April 7-11, 2010.