Britons like web better than telly
According to the report, men spend 172 minutes on the Web daily, women 156, with Londoners and Scots spending the most time online.
Rome, perfect film set
Are the Hollywood giants smothering Italian film with theirs super mega productions filled to the brim with incredible special effects? Or can Italy regain some its glorious film history and give the Hollywood movie giants a run for their money?
The figures clearly put Italy in second place – in 2004, over 150 first-run Hollywood films were shown in Italian cinemas, in comparison with only just over 100 home-produced films and co-productions. Lots of work for those dubbing artists since showing films in their original language is not the done thing over here – unfortunately.
Who could deny that Rome is a perfect film set – in fact you often see people filming in some beautiful little side street but generally it’s for feature films commissioned by TV. In fact these days it’s television that keeps the big Roman film studios such as Cinecitta in business. Who knows, maybe this year’s Venice Film Festival will bring some pleasant surprises.
Gesture-based games using camera phones
A team at Georgia Tech has devised mobile phone games in which you play using movement gestures, not by pressing buttons. How is this possible? By using the camera on the back of the phone! By using computer vision techniques like motion blur detection and optical flow it is possible to detect up to 6 degrees of freedom, they write.
Hat tip: I found this via Pasta and Vinegar, the only blogger so far to write anything about the Serious Games Summit Europe 2005
