The “Break it Down” Blog

Controlling the Future of Gaming and Entertainment Starts with Game Consoles

A study by JPR found the PC gaming market to be 2.6x larger than console gaming market… that includes every Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii together (totally somewhere around 74.7 million units worldwide) with an estimated 196 million “gaming machine” class of PC shipped world wide. Yet, big companies and analysts have been claiming that [...]

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oblong industries Delivers Minority Report Interactive Displays with g-speak

In collaboration with the scientific advisers from the Steven Spielberg film, Oblong Industries has created g-speak; a glove-controlled interactive display room of sorts very similar to the one seen in Minority Report. Simple hand gestures like sweep, tilt, pan and so on are there as well as things like “thumb-down” to indicate a grab and thumb-up [...]

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Visualization of Eclipse Project Source Code Commits

Grant Gochnauer sent in a cool visualization to the source code history, starting in 2001 with the initial code drop, of the Eclipse source code repository (including the extra projects). If you are a coder or just like to see visually how huge collaborative projects grow, check it out: code_swarm - Eclipse (short ver.) from Michael Ogawa [...]

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