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DT-Awards Nomination

DT-AwardWe are very proud to announce our nomination for the Deutsche Telekom Digital Entertainment Awards @ fmx/08. After our success in Laval our project Comino was selected to be among the best three in the category “Young Talents“. Awards ceremony is scheduled on Tuesday, May 6, from 6 to 7:30 pm at the FMX-conference in Stuttgart, Germany.

Laval Virtual Trophies - We are one of the Winners!

laval_08_comino_13.jpgWe are very proud to announce that our project “Comino” has won one of the prestigious “Laval Virtual Trophies”. Comino was selected to be the best project in the category “Video games and Entertainment” and was therefore rewarded one of the coveted glass trophies. More fotos after the break!

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Laval Virtual & RTT Contest

dsc_0240.JPGThis week will become a great success for the Media Interaction Lab:

Jakob is currently presenting our our interactive game Comino at Laval Virtual 2008. Comino is a tabletop game inspired by the Incredible Machine. It provides a multi-modal interaction based on a bi-directional projection tabletop, digital pens and custom-made physical objects, while attracting users for an active participation in creating content which diffuses the boundary between the real and virtual world. Kyungdahm Yun (GIST), Maki Sugimoto, and Masahiko Inami are supporting this project.

Moreover, our interactive table FLUX has been selected as one of the three winners of this year’s RTT Emerging Technology Contest. We are also happy that Daniel Leithinger, who is currently working at NUS, has been selected as a winner. The award ceremony will take place during the 9th RTT Conference in Vienna (April 10-11, 2008). The 9th RTT Conference is a platform for professional high-end 3D visualization. The historic ambience of Vienna’s Hofburg Imperial Palace host to this year’s summit.

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