Congratulations to the Motion Savvy team, who are one of the first ten teams to be part of the Leap Motion Accelerator program. The students created a finger-spelling translation app for the Leap and impressed the company so much that they have been awarded $25,000 to spend three months in San Francisco to take the […]
This winter/spring we will be testing out, hacking on, and generally making a mess of the new Steambox, and you’re invited! We’ll have a beta unit from Valve, and a custom Steam login with a bunch of games to put the hardware through its paces… and the SDK for you to make some games of […]
MAGIC has a feature article in the University Research Magazine for the fall 2013 issue! The article features numerous photos of the new space, Director Phelps, our projects, and most importantly our students. It also features discussion of our recent event hosting the New York State Senate and the Honorable Martin Golden, and the kickoff […]
On November 19th the MAGIC Center, as a part of Sponsored Research at RIT, will co-host a ‘Celebration of Research’ in our new research facility. This event is open to the campus community, and will feature remarks from Director Phelps, as well as Dr. Ryne Raffaelle, Vice President for Research, Dr. Richard DiMartino, Director of […]
We’ve all done it, and we know it is (sometimes) wrong, as our faces are glued to our mobile screens while friends and family chatter in the background. RIT Associate Professor of Philosophy and MAGIC’s Head of Research Communications, Community and Ethics Evan Selinger writes this month in The Atlantic on “How Not to Be […]
MAGIC Associate Director and IGM Professor Stephen Jacobs writes this month for WIRED UK Edition on the subject of EEG Neurogaming. His article, “Hands-Free Neurogaming” is published under the tag “EEG-Neurogaming will provide an intimate interface between humans and machines” and features discussion and review of several products and solutions that are both available today […]
We are delighted to host the award-winning New York Times and WIRED Magazine tech writer Clive Thompson as he discusses the ideas presented in his new book, Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better. Clive Thompson writes a monthly column for WIRED magazine on the everyday impact of new […]
Becoming Visible is a photographic exhibition of visibility and illness, an experience in treatment for Hodgkins lymphoma, medical imagery, and personal testimonial about that time. Please join us for the First Friday opening reception and book launch: Friday, 6-9 p.m., November 1, 2013 at Gallery r. The complete exhibition will run from November 1–27, 2013, […]
Dr. Elizabeth Goins, Associate Professor in the College of Liberal Arts and MAGIC Affiliate, is presenting her work on digital games with museums at the Digital Heritage 2013 conference in Marseille. DH2013 is “The largest international scientific event on digital heritage in history will take place under the patronage of UNESCO, in Marseille (France) from […]
MAGIC Open Sourcerer Remy Decausemaker and fifteen students were the largest contingent at the Hack Upstate hackathon at the Syracuse Tech Garden. RIT Projects developed during the 2-day event , October 12th & 13th were Mass over Volume, Traffairious and TabScribe.
It is with great pleasure that the MAGIC Center hosts NY State Senator Martin Golden, Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Science, Technology, Incubation & Entrepreneurship for a full day of discussion on how to further grow the games industry in New York. The event, which is open to public, will also feature remarks […]
MAGIC is proud to announce that RIT has recently launched a newJournal of Interactive Humanities, in collaboration with the RIT Press, theWallace Center, the College of Liberal Arts (COLA), and the MAGIC Center (to name just some of the entities engaged in the support of this venture). Dr. Elizabeth Goins, Associate Professor in COLA and […]