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From Engadget: Kinect and Windows Phone combine to create holographic game engine

If your life is anything like ours, it’s in sore need of more pseudo-holographic helicopters. Fortunately, YouTube user programming4fun has come up with a solution, using Microsoft’s Kinect beta SDK and a Windows Phone handset. The system, pictured above, basically consists of a Kinect and a 3D engine; the former tracks the position of a viewer and automatically adjusts the image projected by the latter, creating the illusion of a 3D landscape. In this case, that landscape happened to feature a holographic helicopter, which could be controlled using a phone’s accelerometer and a Windows Phone 7 app (apparently called HoloController). Watch it in action, after the break.

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From Wired Top Stories: Intel Sees Exabucks in Supercomputing’s Future

Infiniband, for those who know it and use it, is crazy cool stuff… parallel computing wouldn’t be possible without it!  It beats Gigabit Ethernet hands down!  So Intel buying one of the 2 major companies in that market is huge!

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On Monday, Intel shelled out $125 million to buy Infiniband from Qlogic, a little-known maker of data center networking switches and cards. It seems like an odd move. Infiniband is a networking fabric technology, similar to Ethernet, but not nearly as widely used. So why is Intel paying millions for technology that lost out in the business world? Because supercomputing systems are now turning into big business.

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From Engadget: Raspberry Pi demos Model B computer’s AirPlay capabilities

Just a few days after announcing that production of its Model B Linux computer is underway, Raspberry Pi has now unveiled a preview of what its single board device can do when combined with AirPlay. In a video published this week, a Raspberry Pi developer demonstrated how to stream content from an iPad to the ARM-based Model B, using only an HDMI-equipped TV and an AirPlay app. It’s as seamless as dancing cows are beautiful. Still no word yet on when this $35 will begin shipping, but in the meantime, be sure to check out the demo video, after the break.

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The Best Video Player for Windows [Video]

We’re once again changing our Windows App Directory to include PotPlayer as the best video player for Windows. KMPlayer, our former favorite, went through a major update, including a number of features that make it into more of a media center than a video player—not to mention PotPlayer (which is by the same developer as the old KMPlayer, which we loved) is much lighter weight on your CPU, includes a 64-bit version, and doesn’t try to install a bunch of crapware along with the player. PotPlayer’s been around for awhile, and it’s still young, but the new version of KMPlayer pushed us over the edge to replace it with PotPlayer as our default video player. It should give you great video playback right out of the box, though you’ll have tons of options to tweak your video playback to your liking. You can find the full review over at the App Directory. [The Best Video Player for Windows] More »


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