Posts Tagged ‘Project’
“On the highest point of the mountain is a mound of earth, forming an altar of Zeus Lykaios, and from it most of the Peloponnesos can be seen,” wrote Pausanias, in his famous, well-respected multi-volume Description of Greece. “Before the altar on the east stand two pillars, on which there were of old gilded eagles. On this altar they sacrifice in secret to Lykaion Zeus. I was reluctant to pry into the details of the sacrifice; let them be as they are and were from the beginning.”
What would surprise Pausanias—as it is surprising archaeologists—is how early that “beginning” actually may be. New pottery evidence from excavations by the Greek-American, interdisciplinary team of the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project indicates that the ash altar—a cone of earth located atop the southern peak of Mt Lykaion where dedications were made in antiquity— was in use as early as 5,000 years ago—at least 1,000 years before the early Greeks began to worship the god Zeus. Read the rest of this entry »
First off to wow us with its long-rumoured but never-confirmed motion control system was Microsoft’s Project Natal. Natal allows a person to act as their own controller, with a depth-perceptive camera capturing the user’s movements and then translating them into actions on-screen. Signing into your account with Natal is also easier, with facial recognition allowing the Xbox to recognise you. With his Xbox Avatar mimicking his every movement while browsing through the Xbox 360’s Dashboard, Kudo Tsunoda used flicks and stabs of his hand to move between screens and select different items, explaining how Project Natal captured a user’s entire body. Read the rest of this entry »