Last collection of links for awhile – I’m pretty much caught up. Here’s a rundown of things that are more physical:

• Where’s Waldo in the real world; specifically, Seattle. Info. Some of the Easter Eggs are truly great.
• Pixelated hair. I collect anything where “X is used as pixels”; link collection here (and send me more).
• I’m impressed by Google Cardboard. A local architecture firm has been using it to give clients a much better sense of their designs. The fact that you can pre-render at very high quality I consider a large advantage over GPU-based VR. Also, it seems like many firms overbuilt, so these viewers are now dirt cheap, e.g. less than $3 with free shipping.
• Surroundings:
  • The Ricoh Theta gives surprisingly nice instant IBLs in a relatively cheap ($300) compact camera – gallery, review.
  • Matterport looks like a pretty nice room capture device.
  • Photosynth 3 is strangely compelling at times. On one level it’s a low-frame-count video you can scrub through, but scenes often have a surreal feel as interpolations are shown.
• Intel Thunderbolt 3 demos, showing a laptop driving an external GPU. Annoying ad will play, but then the chewy bit of the video plays. Too much info about USB & Thunderbolt here.
• If you have lots of old business cards, two words: Menger Sponge.
• This Is Colossal covers lots of interesting artistic and well-crafted works. Mostly real-world stuff (I liked this mirror work), and also great things such as Bees & Bombs (example below).