Perceptive Media

"A bus stop poster which evolved over time depending on how people responded to it has recently been tested in London. It is part of a wider area of research into how our emotional responses and biometric data could teach advertisers how to target people according to their mood."

Video games have been making use of surround sound for years now but surround lighting? That's new. Indie game Chariot is the world's first to flick the switch on, partnering with Philips for its "connected lighting" system Hue.

Medium blog about Intel Realsense and Nevermind

This television uses facial recognition technology to locate its viewer, then rotates its screen to face them.

Hackday project (Infinite Gangnam Style), and made it work with any song. The result is The Infinite Jukebox.

"this project is bringing the power of computer vision and image processing to the Web. By extending the spec of Media Capture and Streams, the web developers can write video processing related applications in better way. The primary idea is to incorporate Worker-based JavaScript video processing with MediaStreamTrack."

"Amazon's new system will cut the royalties for self-published authors who fail to hold a reader's attention until the final page "

"Pepper, the humanoid robot that its makers say can recognise and respond to human emotions, goes on sale in Japan this weekend. "

The Watson Personality Insights service uses linguistic analytics to extract a spectrum of cognitive and social characteristics from the text data that a person generates through blogs, tweets, forum posts, and more. "

Around the campfire: closing the gap between storyteller and audience

"Big data opens up a hyper-personalised marketing opportunity - but creative treads a thin line between relevance and invasiveness"

"Did you ever wonder what it would be like to own a car like KITT from the "Knight Rider" TV series? It would come standard with the most advanced navigation system to date and wouldn't require safety features like anti-theft devices."

Geolocation on steriods for Javascript

People feel they understand complex phenomena with far greater precision, coherence, and depth than they really do; they are subject to an illusion-an illusion of explanatory depth. The illusion is far stronger for explanatory knowledge than many other kinds of knowledge, such as that for facts, procedures or narratives. The illusion for explanatory knowledge is most robust where the environment supports real-time explanations with visible mechanisms

The rise of sentient articles

: Undoing the limitations of traditional media - Tools of Change for Publishing

Computer vision has made significant progress in recent decades, with steady improvements in the performance and robustness of computational methods for real-time detection, recognition, tracking, and modeling