Space Needle Interactives
Stimulant created two touchscreen exhibits that make Space Needle visitors’ experiences more rich and informative. One experience features dreamlike, immersive Microsoft Photosynth walkthroughs of...
View ArticleJoel Pryde to Speak at NVScene 2015
Stimulant’s most senior developer, Joel Pryde, will be presenting at NVIDIA’s NVScene 2015 event in San Jose, which runs March 17-20. It’s a great place for creative coders, demoscene hackers, and GPU...
View ArticleOpen Source Microsoft Cube Toolkit Released
In partnership with the Microsoft Cube team, Stimulant has released a toolkit which attempts to ease many of the challenges associated with developing experiences for the Microsoft Cube. The toolkit is...
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Stimulant Hosts Carnegie Mellon ETC
Stimulant loves Carnegie Mellon University, having two alumni among our ranks. Joel Pryde, our most senior developer, and Nathan Moody, our design director, both emerged from the school. However, they...
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Open-Source Application Monitoring and Performance Management Tools Released
At Stimulant we consider it very important to know how our installations are doing out in the wild, whether they are permanent or temporary. To that end we’ve developed a toolkit referred to as “ampm”,...
View ArticleEvents and Press
We’ve added a new press section to our home page to keep up with the surge in coverage lately. This month Darren and Nathan appeared in two interviews to discuss the modern event experience with Agency...
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RFID Tracking with Impinj xArray
As part of Stimulant’s focus on smart spaces, we are always evaluating products and technologies that help us determine the position of people and objects in space. One exciting technology is RFID,...
View ArticleSneak Peek: gView Display Wall at Genentech Building 35
Lately we’ve been spending time in Genentech’s beautiful new building 35 in South San Francisco to install a new multi-user touch wall. The lobby display informs employees of news and events from...
View ArticleEyeo 2015 Notes
It was so great to be back at Eyeo after two years! Compared to my last trip, it felt slightly different. There was a lot more diversity, not only in the speakers’ backgrounds and talks, but also in...
View ArticleSoDA Panel at Cannes Lions
Thanks to The Society of Digital Agencies for organizing a panel at Cannes Lions today on the topic of smart spaces. Our CEO Darren David joined David Schwarz from HUSH and Jake Barton from Local...
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Touch Screen Roundup
While Stimulant’s repertoire of sensing and input devices is broad, we frequently come back to touch as a primary method of interaction with our installation projects. Touch offers direct interaction...
View ArticleReactive Data Visualization at One World Observatory, NYC
One World Observatory in New York City is full of great multimedia experiences, but a visitor’s first will be just after they scan their ticket at the lobby. There they’ll be greeted by a 65′ wide by...
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State of the Art: Transparent OLED Displays
We’ve used transparent LCDs in the past, and they’re pretty cool. Evocative of the “see through” user interfaces of science fiction films, transparent LCDs work on the principle of being transparent...
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Judging the Adobe Design Achievement Awards
The 2015 ADAA identity by Dani Wolf Hi all, Nathan here. As Stimulant’s design director, I was recently tapped to be one of the judges in the final round of the Adobe Design Achievement Awards on...
View ArticleTrendspotting: Robots + Ribbons
We’ve been completely mesmerized watching these digitally-driven kinetic expressions this week. Please let us know when the 4K 1000fps director’s cut of each is available, thank you. “A device that...
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Welcome, Sherri Nevins! Q&A with Stimulant’s New Executive Producer
We’re thrilled to welcome Sherri to the Stimulant team. Sherri brings a world of experience and expertise in planning and managing digital installation projects on a wide variety of scales. If we’re...
View ArticleOne World Observatory hits 1,000,000 visitor mark
Congratulations to @OneWorldNYC for hitting their millionth visitor, a fantastic milestone considering they’ve only been open for a little over 4 months now. H/T to The Hettema Group for the video...
View ArticleGenentech gView Redesign
Genentech’s campus in South San Francisco features informative touch screen displays in the lobbies of several of the buildings, but the company wanted to redesign them to increase employee engagement...
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Smart Spaces for All: Stimulant at United Nations’ World Habitat Day
On Monday, October 5, our CEO Darren David was invited to speak on a panel at the United Nations in celebration of World Habitat Day and this year’s theme, Public Spaces for All. Smart spaces are a new...
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Welcome, Mark Coleran! Q&A with Stimulant’s New Executive Creative Director
Mark Coleran is best known for his groundbreaking work in the field of FUI, or Fantasy User Interfaces, for major Hollywood motion pictures such as Children of Men, The Island, and the Bourne series....
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