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Transforming walls into sensors and interactive surfaces with a paint job

Smart Walls React to Human Touch, Sense Activity in Room Walls are what they are — big, dull dividers. With a few applications of conductive paint and some electronics, however, walls can become smart infrastructure that sense human touch, and detect things like gestures and when appliances are used. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Disney

Transforming walls into sensors and interactive surfaces with a paint job

Disney Research takes another big step towards a functioning holodeck

Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR) create exciting opportunities to engage users in immersive experiences, resulting in natural human-computer interaction. Many MR interactions are generated around a First-person Point of View (POV). In these cases, the user directs to the environment, which is digitally displayed either through a head-mounted display or a handheld computing device. One drawback of such conventional

Disney Research takes another big step towards a functioning holodeck

Ultra-wideband backscatter communication for the Internet of Things

Disney Research demonstrates ultra-wideband backscatter communication Internet of things (IoT) systems usually link networks of sensors via radio, but radios demand battery power thus limiting usability. Disney Research has determined that one solution may be to get rid of the radios all together and communicate via the ambient radio waves from TV, radio and cell

Ultra-wideband backscatter communication for the Internet of Things

LED Bulbs Can Both Light a Room, Provide a Communications Link

Researchers at Disney Research and ETH Zurich have demonstrated that consumer-grade light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs can, with some modifications, do double duty — both illuminating a room and providing a communications link for devices in that room. This visible light communication (VLC) system would be suitable for connecting the many devices, such as appliances, wearable

LED Bulbs Can Both Light a Room, Provide a Communications Link

Get ready for the iBall – Disney breakthrough could lead to round phones and realistic robot eyes

Forget flexible screens, Disney‘s research lab has invented a new 3D printing process that can make tiny, round screens that could lead to a new generation of spherical gadgets. The firm has even worked out how to make the text readable on a round screen, meaning even apps could be usable – and raising the

Get ready for the iBall – Disney breakthrough could lead to round phones and realistic robot eyes

Carnegie Mellon-Disney Motion Tracking Technology Is Extremely Precise and Inexpensive With Minimal Lag

Technology Could Transform Games, But Applications Don’t Stop There Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research Pittsburgh have devised a motion tracking technology that could eliminate much of the annoying lag that occurs in existing video game systems that use motion tracking, while also being extremely precise and highly affordable. Called Lumitrack, the technology

Carnegie Mellon-Disney Motion Tracking Technology Is Extremely Precise and Inexpensive With Minimal Lag

Ambient Energy Could Replace Batteries

Stray heat, electromagnetic fields or even mechanical sources can provide power for portable electronics and other devices Disposable and rechargeable batteries that power tens of millions of portable electronics could become obsolete over the coming decades as new technologies come to market that can convert ambient energy into usable electric power, new research shows. The

Ambient Energy Could Replace Batteries

Disney’s Aireal delivers precise tactile feedback out of thin air

With systems like the Kinect and Leap Motion, controlling a gadget with just the wave of a hand is starting to become much more commonplace. The one drawback to those gesture-based devices however is that you never actually touch anything. No matter what you see on the screen, you’re still very aware that you’re just moving your hands

Disney’s Aireal delivers precise tactile feedback out of thin air

Cheap, color, holographic video

A practical new approach to holographic video could also enable 2-D displays with higher resolution and lower power consumption. Today in the journal Nature, researchers at MIT’s Media Lab report a new approach to generating holograms that could lead to color holographic-video displays that are much cheaper to manufacture than today’s experimental, monochromatic displays. The same technique

Cheap, color, holographic video

Robots Learn Proper Handoff, Follow Digitized Human Examples

A humanoid robot can receive an object handed to it by a person with something approaching natural, human-like motion A humanoid robot can receive an object handed to it by a person with something approaching natural, human-like motion thanks to a new method developed by scientists at Disney Research, Pittsburgh in a project partially funded

Robots Learn Proper Handoff, Follow Digitized Human Examples

Disney Research robot can juggle, play catch

The developers were also able to speed up the throw/catch cycle to give the robot the ability to juggle three balls with a human partner. With the aim of providing some physical interaction between entertainment robots and guests at its theme parks, while still maintaining a safe distance between the two, Disney Research has created

Disney Research robot can juggle, play catch

Disney develops “face cloning” technique for animatronics

The “uncanny valley” is one of the frustrating paradoxes of robotics. Every year, roboticists make humanoid robots that more accurately imitate human beings, but it turns out that the better the imitation, the creepier the end result. It’s that strange, hair-raising sensation one gets when visiting the Hall of Presidents at Disneyland. True, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln look very

Disney develops “face cloning” technique for animatronics

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Signaturefd LLC Sells 779 Shares of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS)
on March 6, 2021 at 2:28 am
Signaturefd LLC reduced its position in The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) by 3.6% during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The firm owned 20,921 shares of the ...
Disney announces store closings
on March 5, 2021 at 8:01 am
Wicked Local media partner WBC-TV reports this week that the Disney Company is closing at least 60 stores in North America. While Disney did not release a list of stores that will close, its local ...
Mobile Gaming Market Comprehensive Analysis on types and application 2021-2025 | Glu Mobile, The Walt Disney Company, Electronic Arts, Zynga
on March 5, 2021 at 2:41 am
Reports Web adds Mobile Gaming Market Forecast to 2025 COVID 19 Impact and Global Analysis to its store providing analysis of the current and future market competition in the market A mobile game is a ...
From the big screen, to the small screen, to the MRI—Disney teams with Philips to bring its characters to pediatric imaging
on March 4, 2021 at 12:20 pm
Getting an MRI has never been a walk in the park. Being fed into a large, almost unnaturally heavy machine powered by unseen forces—and almost always kept in the basement—is understandably unsettling, ...
'Raya and the Last Dragon' on Disney+: 'The next iteration of the Disney princess', a Southeast Asian hero, steps forward
on March 4, 2021 at 11:45 am
Disney is expanding its catalogue of Disney princesses, this time taking inspiration from Southeast Asian cultures in Raya and the Last Dragon, releasing on Disney+ for $34.99 in Canada, with a ...

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Covid-19: Restaurant Dining and Lack of Mask Mandates Are Each Linked to U.S. Virus Spread, C.D.C. Says
on March 4, 2021 at 6:06 pm
The world needs up to 10 billion syringes for coronavirus doses, and manufacturers are pulling out all the stops to meet the demand. The pandemic’s racial disparities persist in the U.S. vaccine ...
21 New Reasons to Visit Orlando this Summer
on March 4, 2021 at 5:42 pm
With summer approaching and new research showing that 81% of Americans have travel plans in the next six months, Orlando offers 21 new reasons to visit in 2021, ranging from new theme park thrill ...
Multi-channel Network Market, Top key players – Amazon,Studio71 (ProSiebenSat.1 Media),Fullscreen,Disney Digital Network
on March 4, 2021 at 3:28 pm
The Global Multi-channel Network Market 2020 Research Report is a professional and in-depth study on the current state of Multi-channel Network Market. The report provides a basic overview of the ...
Asian Immersion: ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ Offers a Refreshing Heroine in a Stunning World
on March 4, 2021 at 8:14 am
This article originally appeared in the April ’21 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 309)*** A strong, memorable Southeast Asian heroine is ready to make her mark in the Disney animated feature canon ...
Paramount+ Is Here. Is It Too Late?
on March 4, 2021 at 6:26 am
Establishing such a big target might come off as overly hubristic or even hopelessly naïve given the late date at which Paramount+ is rolling out its big streaming play. That ViacomCBS simply isn’t ...