Sunday, February 7, 2010

watching the super bowl

Snowstorm

The storm is a perfect illustration of the need for knowledge workers to work together within knowledge "worlds". The power of virtual reality is the sense of collaboration we can attain with other people; a sense which we know is important. We've all compared video conferences to traveling to be with a team face to face - and we realize the importance of really engaging with people.

One need only look at the oil graphs and container shipping I have been pushing to see that we have been dependent upon oil for transporting lots of things around the country, including ourselves. And the main reason most of transport ourselves - commute - around this great land is our need to be with people we work with. Being with people is what virtual reality - in its new form as "virtual world" - is all about.

Ben

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Thursday, January 14, 2010

2010

Well I've moved to Fairfax, VA. The DC area is hot.

I'm really excited about our new plugin API for Glasshouse; it's going to let lots of people build interactive, 3D applications which run in multiple virtual world platforms. I've already used it to produce a plugin called GridStack, which lets you choose columns from mysql databases and build graphs, stacking them in a correlated fashion... without leaving the virtual world or using ANY 2D user interface. This is the future of Glasshouse: visualizing the structure of datasources and using that within the virtual world to create visualizations of the data they contain. We'll be adding XMLA support next. Check out the video:

Thursday, November 19, 2009

correlation between swine flu news and reported flu cases

I put together a video showing Google flu trends data in Glasshouse; really interesting data. Check out the anomalous bump that I found.



Perhaps the explanation for the jump in reported flu cases in the northern hemisphere during the week of April 26th, 2009 was due to the WHO issuing their first Disease Outbreak Notice regarding swine flu, on April 24th...

wikipedia timeline

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

NFL Stats and Fantasy Points in 3D

OUR FANTASY FOOTBALL TOOL IS LIVE!!!

Green Phosphor now has the entire history of the NFL available for 3D graphing - and updated every week. Our fantasy football tool, which anyone can run inside our public Wonderland sandbox by going to the tools menu, lets you create a 3D graph of any combination of stats or fantasy points, for any position, year, or week. You can also define the way points are allocated for your league.



Ed has been hard at work on this for some time now and we are really proud of it! If you are playing fantasy football, please try out 3D visualization to get an edge! You will see patterns and trends like never before.

http://greenphosphor.com/ff.html