HIT Lab NZ using DWARF

Good news - the HIT Lab New Zealand is using DWARF - the Augmented Reality framework developed in our research group at TU Munich (I was responsible for the User Interface parts). See the screenshot below for a visualization of a set of connected components running in New Zealand :-)

Franz the Gentoo Guru

Franz is a big fan of Gentoo Linux. We are currently working together on a project that fosters the advantages of Gentoo over any other distribution. However the long compilation times can be quite tiresome sometimes. See the picture below where Franz fell asleep in the lab in front of his laptop. If you watch the screen carefully, you can see the gcc output :-)

Fall in New York

Fall in New York is great - I like the city better now than in the summer when it was often unberably hot ...

experimental computer animation

Oliver and me are getting nuts partying! Finally I can enjoy the the crazy but amazing night life in new york with an old friend :-)

also he showed me a nice animation which you can find here!

Friends are soon visiting me!

I am excited, some friends are (finally) visiting me in New York! Today until Sunday Oliver (an old friend from highschool) is going to stay at my place here. Next week Otmar is coming! I hope to blog some funny things that we experience in the crazy partying during the next weeks :-)

Screen captures from ISMAR demo

Our ISMAR Demo finally works in parts :-)
Some screencpatures:

ISMAR - coding like mad

I am locked in my hotel room now for 3 days with 3 other guys. We are coding like mad.... Less than 48 hours to show our demo at ISMAR , but still too much to do ... The conversations are really geeky
(major in computer science required to understand this ;-)
Nick(configuring linux kernel): Do you think 2 Gigabyte of User Memory Space are enough?
Chris: Dude, my scenegraph is 2.5 Gigs.
Nick: Is that all loaded at once?

Check out a picture of our room: