The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation are pleased to announce the launch of Art++, an augmented reality (AR) mobile app created for art museum visitors. Heralded as the cutting edge of media, augmented reality refers to any technology that superimposes graphics onto a user’s normal field of vision,
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Announcing the 2016-2017 Magic Grants!
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2016-2017 Magic Grants. In these projects you will find a number of fantastic interdisciplinary collaborations that are formed within as well as between our two universities — from drone technology and advanced computer vision aiding video editing; to virtual reality creating visceral experiences of racism; to
Behind the scenes of “On the Brink”
In two publications this week, the Magic Grant team of Evan Wexler, Marcelle Hopkins and Ben Moran take us behind the scenes of their VR documentary “On the Brink of Famine,” a moving experience of the hunger crisis in South Sudan. In a post for FRONTLINE’s blog, Marcelle Hopkins explains how the food crisis developed in South
Photo Expanded Fellow DiCampo Launches “What Went Wrong”
This week, Peter DiCampo, a fellow in the Photography Expanded program — a joint effort of the Magnum Foundation and the Brown Institute — launched his site “What Went Wrong”. DiCampo explains the goals the project. The efficiency of development aid is one of the more contentious issues of our time, but consistent journalistic investigation and
“On the Brink of Famine”: Full Doc Released
The Drop Posted by FRONTLINE Today we are proud to announce the release of the full documentary “On the Brink of Famine.” “On the Brink” takes you inside South Sudan in 360° to meet people battling a man-made hunger crisis. Experience the front lines of a famine in the making, in a VR documentary by Marcelle Hopkins, Evan Wexler and
Reframe Iran selected for Kaleidoscope World Tour
Reframe Iran is a virtual reality experience taking place in eight Iranian artist studios throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. With a Gear VR headset, the user will be up close and personal with internationally acclaimed artists such as Shirin Neshat and Parviz Tanavoli. The narration and music for this experience are both minimal,
Second VR Trailer for “On the Brink”: The Camp
The Drop Posted by FRONTLINE Imagine having to leave your family, your home, everything you hold dear, and walk alone for days just to find food and shelter. Eventually, you end up in a camp with over 120,000 others who, like you, fled the violence of civil war — living on the brink of starvation. It’s one
Visual Genome: A new interface for image search and retrieval
Visual Genome is a dataset, a knowledge base, an ongoing effort to connect structured image concepts to language. It allows for a multi-perspective study of an image, from pixel-level information like objects, to relationships that require further inference, and to even deeper cognitive tasks like question answering. It is a comprehensive dataset for training and
“On the Brink of Famine”
The Brown Institute and The PBS investigative series FRONTLINE continue their exploration of virtual reality (VR) in journalism today with the release of the first in a new series of 360-degree Facebook videos. Filmed on the ground in war-torn South Sudan, the series — On the Brink of Famine – transports viewers inside a hunger crisis that few people in