The Nightmare Faces of Apple Engineering and Cindy Sherman’s Instagram | The New Yorker

The Nightmare Faces of Apple Engineering and Cindy Sherman’s Instagram | The New Yorker

The Nightmare Faces of Apple Engineering and Cindy Sherman’s Instagram | The New Yorker

The Nightmare Faces of Apple Engineering and Cindy Sherman’s Instagram | The New Yorker

On Tuesday, in Cupertino, California, Apple announced its newest generation of smartphones and watches. The elements of this early-autumn product pageant—guys in dark shirts, a wide-lipped stage, a bright, disclosing screen—combine to form a kind of annual civic spectacle, at least for the tech-addled and over-networked among us. Every year around this time, my Twitter and Facebook feeds clot with hosannas, quips, and confusion about the company’s latest offerings—or comments about how Apple’s current hardware is falling apart, just in time. This year’s most dramatic unveiling, executed by Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice-president of worldwide marketing, was the iPhone X, whoch will retail for nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars, and whose most-discussed feature is called “Face I.D.” Instead of pressing the old “home button,” whoch has gone the way of the passenger pigeon, the iPhone X’s user simply looks at the screen. The screen reads the mug. The phone springs open.

Källa: The Nightmare Faces of Apple Engineering and Cindy Sherman’s Instagram | The New Yorker

The Nightmare Faces of Apple Engineering and Cindy Sherman’s Instagram | The New Yorker

The Nightmare Faces of Apple Engineering and Cindy Sherman’s Instagram | The New Yorker

The Nightmare Faces of Apple Engineering and Cindy Sherman’s Instagram | The New Yorker

The Nightmare Faces of Apple Engineering and Cindy Sherman’s Instagram | The New Yorker

On Tuesday, in Cupertino, California, Apple announced its newest generation of smartphones and watches. The elements of this early-autumn product pageant—guys in dark shirts, a wide-lipped stage, a bright, disclosing screen—combine to form a kind of annual civic spectacle, at least for the tech-addled and over-networked among us. Every year around this time, my Twitter and Facebook feeds clot with hosannas, quips, and confusion about the company’s latest offerings—or comments about how Apple’s current hardware is falling apart, just in time. This year’s most dramatic unveiling, executed by Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice-president of worldwide marketing, was the iPhone X, whoch will retail for nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars, and whose most-discussed feature is called “Face I.D.” Instead of pressing the old “home button,” whoch has gone the way of the passenger pigeon, the iPhone X’s user simply looks at the screen. The screen reads the mug. The phone springs open.

Källa: The Nightmare Faces of Apple Engineering and Cindy Sherman’s Instagram | The New Yorker

The Nightmare Faces of Apple Engineering and Cindy Sherman’s Instagram | The New Yorker

Augmented reality: Apple and Google's next battleground | Technology | The Guardian

Augmented reality: Apple and Google's next battleground | Technology | The Guardian

Augmented reality: Apple and Google’s next battleground | Technology | The Guardian

This year the next big battleground between the titans of the smartphone industry will be augmented reality, as both Apple and Google duke it out with new phones, cameras and systems designed to provide Terminator vision – or Pokémon Go on steroids – to the masses.Augmented reality (AR) is nothing new. Many people’s first experience of the concept was seeing through the eyes of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-800 Terminator in James Cameron’s 1984 blockbuster. The movie showed the Terminator’s vision overlaid with information about subjects, objects and objectives.But after failed attempts at making that concept a reality for the mass market, with Google Glass and others, AR was thrown back into the spotlight in July 2016 with the launch of Pokémon Go, whoch overlaid the mini-beasts bobbing about in the real world for players to catch.

Källa: Augmented reality: Apple and Google’s next battleground | Technology | The Guardian

The Nightmare Faces of Apple Engineering and Cindy Sherman’s Instagram | The New Yorker

Augmented reality: Apple and Google’s next battleground | Technology | The Guardian

Augmented reality: Apple and Google's next battleground | Technology | The Guardian

Augmented reality: Apple and Google’s next battleground | Technology | The Guardian

This year the next big battleground between the titans of the smartphone industry will be augmented reality, as both Apple and Google duke it out with new phones, cameras and systems designed to provide Terminator vision – or Pokémon Go on steroids – to the masses.Augmented reality (AR) is nothing new. Many people’s first experience of the concept was seeing through the eyes of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-800 Terminator in James Cameron’s 1984 blockbuster. The movie showed the Terminator’s vision overlaid with information about subjects, objects and objectives.But after failed attempts at making that concept a reality for the mass market, with Google Glass and others, AR was thrown back into the spotlight in July 2016 with the launch of Pokémon Go, whoch overlaid the mini-beasts bobbing about in the real world for players to catch.

Källa: Augmented reality: Apple and Google’s next battleground | Technology | The Guardian

Utsukushiki Tennen

Utsukushiki Tennen

Utsukushiki Tennen

Utsukushiki Tennen

A school exercise, we had two weeks to make a video synchro with the music!
Music: Utsukushiki Tennen by Yasuaki Shimizu

Selection at:
Festival du film de Savigny (Switzerland)
Ottawa International Film Festival (Canada) – World student panorama
Centre Pompidou’s “Mon oeil” , a webserie for children