Saturday, January 23, 2010

Haiti Earthquake: 360° Video on CNN.com

Never underestimate the ability of video to tell a story or to put you into an environment. The world is watching the news of the earthquake from Haiti right now. Here is a video player on CNN's web site that gives you the ability to pan and turn the angle of your view as the truck that the camera is sitting on rolls down the street.

I apologize that the video automatically plays, but there doesn't seem to be a setting I can control to change this. Normally, I would just link to the video in that case. The content of the video is important enough AND the technology is cool enough that I posted it anyhow. Having a video simply autoplay is just too obnoxious.

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Check out the full screen mode on CNN.com.

Sunday, January 03, 2010

CONCRETE HUSTLE Lightsaber Duel

Just when I think I've seen the best fan-made lightsaber duel that's ever been published...

Saturday, January 02, 2010

Let's Enhance it! Video

Okay, this is funny. Certainly it might be possible to do this kind of enhancement in the 24th century, but there are certain video enhancements that happen in movies that are just ridiculous. And this video makes that abundantly clear.