Category Archives: tech

Big Photo Post! Tower Opening, Marty Sklar, the Case, and More!

Posted on May 14, 2011 by rgrabman

This is going to be a photo-heavy post, so let’s get started! Designed by our very own Katherine and fabricated by Freeland Studios Inc, here’s a look at the current iPad cases. There will be some adjustments made to the … Continue reading →

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World Within a World, Expanded

Posted on April 2, 2011 by rgrabman

Matt (aka Stew) provide a bit more detail about our jpeg streaming that was discussed in our half-semester presentations: Unity can not handle a stream of infinite length, and Anthony found the runtime class in Unity called WWW to facilitate our … Continue reading →

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iPad + Server = Love

Posted on April 2, 2011 by rgrabman

Cassandra wrote up a summary of some progress the tech team made over the past few weeks: We’ve made significant progress in connecting our network through the server and over the web. It was relatively simple to make the server … Continue reading →

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And Now… Tech Talk with Tom!

Posted on March 27, 2011 by rgrabman

As part of our ongoing effort to highlight our technical achievements, Tom has some info on our system overview: Guests using the Starscape application will be holding an iPad in their hands, but this is only one small part of … Continue reading →

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Technology Milestones

Posted on March 18, 2011 by rgrabman

Our very own Matt Stewart and Anthony Palma have been performing inception: putting the physical world (the star) made digital (a camera feed) inside a virtual world (on the iPad) all held by a guest in the physical world! Whew! … Continue reading →

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