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[alexbutterfield]

Dr. Eugene Gough Biography

[addlepated]

[Ignu5]

@alexbutterfield - Welcome! That's some great sleuth work you've done! Keep it up!

@darren and addle - I've also done it. Man did I feel silly.

[alexbutterfield]

I don't have any experience of these ARGs.

Are they usually this thorough and well integrated with the rest of the internet?

I've devised a couple of murder mystery nights that included riddles/puzzles but they were all done as physical challenges at my house, nothing to the extent of this, it's pretty crazy. It's hard to know what is in game and what is out of game.

I followed a blog post by CodeWtrN8 to Bridger's Blog (n multi touch screens) as this is connected to the idea of haptics, i thought I'd take a look around. There is a post by CodeWtrN8 congratulating Bridger on his work.

I find it hard to tell whether this is real or in-game.

If it is in game there is a link to a game called Lumen (which has connections with light, and maybe holograms???) which is offered for free. In my experience you usually have to pay to download such games. Does anyone think this is in-game or am i barking up the wrong tree?
http://fieryferret.com/lumen/lumen.html

edit: ive tried the game seems legit. quite a cool little game though. not bad for nowt.

[ares5000]

wow! that's a great find! I remember looking back through the posts with hints to Microsoft, San Diego as well as AT&T as possibles. i don't know why I didn't think of it earlier. Microsoft Surface! AT&T is using Microsoft Surface for a bunch of fun stuff. I saw a demo of Surface running the Lumens game. It isn't a hologram, just a huge multi-touch interface running some slick software but they are pushing it as "the future."

Thats the official site for Surface:
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/index.html

Maybe I'm thinking waaaaay too much into it...

[veebee]

No you're not..it all fits in nicely.

I find it a bit odd that this 17 year old has done so much....
Think we should keep an eye on him.

Edited to remove Trout.

[ares5000]

making a multi touch table is actually pretty easy now that there's a bunch of open-source software. i've got a small setup like that to use with Virtual DJ

im confused though because Surface has already been "launched"

[alexbutterfield]

CodeWtrN8

[OwnD]

Re: CodeWtrN8

[Agent Lex]

Re: CodeWtrN8

[mousekinn]

I mentioned this yesterday in IRC, but I thought I'd bring it up here, too, due to Alex's post regarding Reverse Haptics.

There is such a thing called the Holomovement, a metaphysical concept involving enlightenment in man's consciousness.

See disputed wiki here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Togo/Holomovement

"Holomovement is a metaphysical concept invented by David Bohm describing his visual description of the 'fabric of reality', implying 'undivided wholeness in flowing movement' [1]. The holomovement is the underlying flow (of possibly not yet defined qualities related to thought, matter and energy) in which reality (or the possible realities) can be experienced. The prefix 'holo' combines the reference to 'holistic' with the dimensional depth of the concurrent influencing worlds or flows, that like in a hologram project reality in the interference patterns of its 'substructure'."

It's a pretty interesting concept the more I read into it, but it may be just a coincidental tie in to the name of the company.

[intersect]

With the thoroughness these guys, I'd doubt almost anything they do is a coincidence. Good find!

[konamouse]

I was thinking about "Surface" also about two days into this but couldn't remember what it was called.

Then I remembered a small post I made about it last year.
http://konamouse.livejournal.com/11757.html

Whatever this is, I'm enjoying the lurk mode (even though no one has answered my email about my job interest - I think that is just a means to judge activity and gather more contact information - maybe there will be some outward contact in a few more days after the buzz has garnered more new people).

[Greg]

I don't think this is about surface. In his blog, Nathan was talking about the hiring process and the puzzles. He mentioned that there were rumors of a developers challenge in the works and then he said about the company "They are trying to out Microsoft Microsoft and out Google Google."

Put that phrase into Google, and the battle of Microsoft and Yahoo starts coming in, including some about google forcing Microsoft to go after Yahoo. I 'm not going to say its Yahoo, but I think it's too coincidental that the M-Y battle is finally over, and then Holomove is launched...

Also, when Nathan is talking about New Year's Resolutions in his blog, one of his items is "Do something with all my photos". So that may explain Twitter.

Finally, I don't know if this is posted somewhere else already, but I ran a whois of the domain for the comic Zealous Config on Nathan's site, it shows the registrant of xkcd.com as DomainsByProxy.com the servers listed are NS1.SCIESNET.NET & COLOBUS.ISOMERICA.NET


EDIT: I was checking out the about section on xkcd, the guy describing himself as the owner has a section called who are you?

[Ignu5]