10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design
Summary: Jakob Nielsen's 10 general principles for interaction design. They are called "heuristics" because they are broad rules of thumb and not specific usability guidelines.
See the full list and explanation here: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/
TikTok opens AR effects tool to all users
TikTok is rolling out its augmented reality effects tool to all creators and developers after launching a closed beta test last fall.
Effect House allows creators to make their own AR camera effects that can be used by other TikTok users in videos. In an announcement, the company says the effects platform will be open to “all creators, designers, and developers from around the world” and will include tools and learning resources. ...
TikTok says submitted effects will be subject to certain guidelines in order to be approved for use. The company specifically says it will prohibit effects that “promote colorism or negative stereotypes against protected groups” and effects that “depict cosmetic surgery, such as lip fillers, or encourage scrutiny of someone’s appearance.” ...
See the full story here: https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/12/23021780/tiktok-ar-effect-house
and here: https://www.engadget.com/tiktok-effect-house-beta-expansion-160625932.html
(London’s MSG Sphere) Populous’ spherical music venue gets go ahead to be built in London
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Architecture studio Populous has won planning approval for the MSG Sphere music and esports arena, which will be London's largest indoor venue.
Designed for the organisation that runs New York's Madison Square Garden (MSG), the 90-metre-high spherical music venue would be built near the Olympic Park in east London. ...
Designed by stadium-specialist Populous, the venue will have a capacity of 21,500 with 17,566 seated.
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The main auditorium would be placed within the 90-metre-high sphere along with restaurants, cafes and a members' club. Within the sphere, the interior surface will be covered in an "immersive LED surface" that could be utilised for esports. ...
The venue is one of a pair of sphere-shaped arenas designed by Populous that were first revealed in 2018. Its almost-identical sister venue is currently under construction in Las Vegas and scheduled to be complete next year.
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See the full story here: https://www.dezeen.com/2022/03/29/msg-sphere-populous-spherical-music-venue-stratford-london/
Smell significantly enhances sense of realism in virtual reality, researchers find
... The study participants played a short segment from the beginning of the game, twice, with and without smell. While they were immersed in playing, researchers administered a blend of four specific odors—forest, smoke, rotten and dank. We developed forest, rotten and dank to match the scenes, using industrial flavor compounds.
One compound we used in the concoction for dank was 1-octen-3-ol, which has an earthy, mushroom odor character. We used dimethyl trisulfide in the rotten mix, which is a product of human decomposition and attracts blowflies.
The smoke smell was a commercially available smoky BBQ marinade sauce.
Fleshing out the smells
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In the research, we used our prototype "olfactometer" to deliver the odors. An olfactometer sends specific smells along a soft plastic tube fixed underneath the wearers' nose. As the player worked their way through the VR environment, the olfactometer allowed us to accurately deliver the associated smells. ...
See the full story here: https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-significantly-realism-virtual-reality.html
How a Polish Film’s Use of AI to Create an English Version Could Bolster the Foreign Movie Market (Exclusive Video)
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he told the film’s director that his plan would involve using visual effects and A.I. to seamlessly convert the movie into the English language.
“He said, ‘I think it would be great because I wanted to do the movie in English and had no money to do it,” Marks recalled director Maciej Barczewski telling him. “Just don’t make my guys look like monkeys.” ...
See the full story here: https://www.thewrap.com/polish-foreign-film-the-champion-ai-english-video/
The Latest Sign That Beeple Has Truly Arrived: An Exhibit at an Italian Art Museum
Beeple, the upstart digital artist who launched the global craze for nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, among art’s most powerful brokers a year ago, will make his museum debut later this month—the ultimate sign of art-world acceptance.
On April 24, the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art in Turin, Italy, will include the artist’s first sculpture, “HUMAN ONE,” in Expressions with Fractures, a sweeping survey exhibition about the ways new technologies and social ills affect the human experience. ...
Ms. Christov-Bakargiev said she’s arranging Beeple’s piece at one end of a nearly 500-foot-long wing in the 18th-century Baroque castle that now comprises the museum. Facing it on the other end will be Francis Bacon’s 1956-1957 “Study for Portrait IX,” a hunter-green portrait of an anguished man with no hands, dressed in a suit but seemingly trapped within the chalky white outlines of a cage. ...
See the full story here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-latest-sign-that-beeple-has-truly-arrived-an-exhibit-at-an-italian-art-museum-11649682005
