TechTips

The goal of this site is to inform and educate the students, staff, and faculty of The Ohio State University community about various emerging technologies that impact services provided by the Libraries.

TechTips: Google Wave

Posted on September 30, 2009 by eric schnell

The folks at Google released 100,000 invites today to preview their new model of Web-based communication and collaboration, called Google Wave. Since it has been in private beta, one has to rely upon others to explain what Wave is. It has been described “as much of a real-time chat room as a platform for editing [...]

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TechTips: Augmented Reality

Posted on September 21, 2009 by eric schnell

In the movie The Terminator, the viewer is taken frequently to the Terminator’s point-of view. We know this is Terminator’s POV because there is image digitization and the people he is chasing are more luminous than objects in the foreground and background, which suggests infra-red. In the margins of the view we see columns of [...]

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