king talk

As we featured the puzzling ZDF microsite in 3D, we thought about showing some other portfolios with a 3D User Interface. Some of them are not actually new and maybe already known, but we think they´re still worth to be shown:

http://bestiario.org

http://recom-cgi.de

http://www.varywell.com

http://www.screenvader.com/root.html

http://lab.mathieu-badimon.com

http://www.whitevoid.com/portfolio.html

I was really excited by the game »shout n dodge« today. A simple flashgame that reminded my a bit at the helicopter flash game, but this time you don´t have to click. (Fight the mouse!) After you allowed flash to use your microfone, you have to scream. The louder the higher your character will rise… Beware! Red quads trying to block your way… SHOUT LOUDER!… Puuuh…

This game and some more can be found at Sophie Houlden´s website. Her goal is to program easy to use games in 48 hours. Other games like Towlr Podge and Pineapple22 are also fun to play.

via momasurfer

… was the topic of the free informative event held by Microsoft Germany at the department of Informatics at TU Munich. They wrote in their invitation that Microsofts wants to talk about the influence of a better user experience and how they want to improve it in the near future. It sounded good, so I signed in with low expectations, because i couldn´t imagine that they had something completely new popping out of their sleeves. The best talk of this event was held by Peter Kirchner (Program Manager ISV). He was talking about »modern user interfaces« and tried to push the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) which includes Visual Studio and Expression (Microsofts answer to Adobes Creative Suite).

Peter said something like… »In the 80´s there was the revolution of the desktop metaphor and the graphical user interface. Later the internet was getting more popular and is now still known as the web 2.0. The next challenge will be the development of more natural user interfaces and new ways of interacting with a device or application … In the future we will see more intuitive and easier to use applications. If you want to know what Microsofts new user experience will be, just look at the Surface table. The way like virtuality and reality is merging and how simple and direct the user can navigate are just some examples … If we compare Windows graphics with the work of game developers and how they forced the graphical performance to the maximum for visualizing rich graphics, we recognized that our graphics didn´t utilize the power of modern computers until now.«

Hmmm, what do you think about it?