The digital unwrapping of the Egyptian priest Neswaiu

Note: There’s a flash video embedded in this post. Your feed reader or iDevice might/will not show it. Stockholm’s Medelhavsmuseet, the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities, has been working with the research group Interactive Institute Swedish ICT to digitally scan their eight human mummies as part of preparations for a new permanent exhibition. …

Graffiti General

Graffiti General is an immersive WebGL plunge into an abandoned building near Paris and the countless graffiti works that it enshrines. On the eve of it’s restoration, the memory of the building in its current state is preserved and accessible to everybody. Graffiti General was made possible thanks to a combination of the very latest …

3D Sound from ordinary laptop speakers

Edgar Choueiri, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University, has developed a way to play true three-dimensional sound recordings over regular loudspeakers, such as those found in televisions and computer laptops. The filter is designed to work with loudspeakers – not headphones – and can be experienced through standard computer speakers. (Make …