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Augmented Reality on the iPhone

March 1, 2016 // 1 Comment

Augmented Reality, or AR, is when the interns ask “Hey, is that a unicorn in the RainyDayGarden?” or exclaim “Cool! A whale is breaching in the [...]

iPhone VR Gear for 360º Panorama

January 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

When Apple announced its QTVR way back when, we got all excited about the emergence of holodeck-like immersive virtual environments. Until we realized that we were WAY too [...]

Has It Been Ten Years Already… Really???

January 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Happy 2016!!! It has been ten years since we started RainyDayMagazine. Even we can’t believe it. Our focus for the past decade has been The Intersection of Technology [...]

Leap Motion FirstThoughts

June 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

A little more than a year ago we wrote a piece on the upcoming release of a device which we thought would make a huge impact on the state of natural user interfaces for [...]

NUI FirstThoughts

March 4, 2013 // 0 Comments

Jeff Han set the user-interface world on fire with his FTIR-based multi-touch technology presentation at the 2006 TED conference. The interface’s ease of use was [...]

NeuroSky MindWave Mobile FirstLook

October 4, 2012 // 0 Comments

We looked at a product called the MindWave a year ago. The device was a low-cost way to get a glimpse of the electrical activities of the brain. NeuroSky managed to take [...]

Installing ofxKinect for OSX

October 25, 2011 // 0 Comments

Playing  with the Kinect hacks are a lot of fun. Getting the hacks to work on the Mac, not so much. OK, not AS much. However, we REALLY REALLY wanted to see the Kinect [...]

Hand-Gesture Apps

April 19, 2011 // 0 Comments

A  few years ago, Jeff Han gave a demo of a low-cost way to create large multi-touch surfaces using the FTIR technique. The talk generated a lot of excitement and a [...]

MFA: Museum Tech

November 15, 2010 // 0 Comments

The MFA will open their new Art of the Americas wing to the public on November 20. RainyDayMagazine got a preview of the new wing last Friday. The building, the galleries, [...]