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In this video you’ll see Steve Mason demonstrating Obscura Digital’s VisionAire technology. He’s not using any controller in his hands. He’s not moving in sync with a pre-recorded video. They are using some proprietary motion capture technology to capture his movements and translate them to on-screen actions. The image is being projected from the ceiling reversed to a mirror on the floor. The image is then reflected to a screen net that is at a 45 degree angle to the presenter. Steve is able to move his arms around freely without having to touch anything. The audience that is front and center get’s the best view, but if your off to one side you can see the screen net. These guys are a group of talented engineers here in the bay.

Check them out: Obscura Digital

This is cool. This company has created a Flash component that will give you some quick and elegant visual effects for displaying images. The component is a wrapper for Papervision3D, leaving you to do little to no code. This is AS3 only.

Check it out: Flash 3D Wall Component | Flashloaded

This is a really cool use of Flash 9, Papervision 3D, and web cameras. Beautiful data visualization and UI design.

Spectra Visual Newsreader | msnbc.com

Here is In2Media, a Danish advertising agency. They do some really nice work. Very similar style to North Kingdom and Big Spaceship.

Check it out: In2Media

Great Flash image gallery.

Check it out: annhagen

Moses Gunesch the creator of FuseKit created a very nice open-source tool called TweenBencher. The utility can be used to chart animation performance through the Flash Player’s framerate over the time of the animation. This is a really nice tool and goes a long way to helping developers figure out which animation package to use and for what reasons.

My results showed that the top performers were (in order):

1. Simple AS3 Tween (could not find a link for this one)
2. TweenLite
3. Tweener

Here is the output of my tests for every animation framework that is listed in the demo application.
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Busy busy busy! How can a person be so busy that he can’t even write in his blog???

Aaron Smith (Ruby AMF) and I hit up Chicago to attend the Adobe MAX 2007 conference. I have to say that it was a big treat for this nerd! A ton of cool sneak peaks. The ones that I found most interesting were Papervision3D and Flash Player Internals.

I want to take the opportunity to thank a few people that I met in Chicago at MAX 2007. The talks that I had with you all were inspiring!

• Simeon Bateman
• Tony Hillerson
• Aral Balkan
• Steve Weiss
• Bryan Zug

This is a freaking nice implementation of integrating Wii remotes to control a Flash Interactive application developed by BLITZ. Here is what I created

Here is a video of it in action:

Kudo’s to BLITZ for creating this experience!

My friend Aaron Smith has created a really great open source project for Flash and Flex remoting called RubyAMF. This project supports AMF0 and the very fast AMF3. Go check it out if you get a chance!

I’d like to announce the first public release of PNGPong, a cross-browser solution for displaying transparent PNGs on the web for IE, Firefox, and Safari.

Download Links

• Download PNGPong 1.0.0 (Zip file) - contains pngpong.js, pngpong.swf, swfobject.js (v1.4.4), and an example page showing how to use it. Just unzip the contents to the root of your website, and surf to http://yourdomain.com/pngpong/example/
• Download PNGPong 1.0.0 Source Files (Zip file) - contains pngpong.fla, pngpong.js, pngpong.swf, and swfobject.js (v1.4.4)

For more details check out the PNGPong project page.

It’s been tested by several developers and QA people and is in use for a high traffic site. Please note that the Javascript API and functionality was created out of the needs of a specific project. I’d be happy to hear your thoughts on improvements.

Thanks for checking this out.