Sunday, August 1, 2010

new reference grid

In the lower right corner you can see the new reference grid designed to keep people from being too disoriented in the blackness of cyberspace.

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