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Spore
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YouTube link of amazing E3 2006 unveiling

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Will Wright is amazing.  I would have liked to be in the conference room when he pitched the game's basic concept: Allow the player to model the physical universe in an accessible, fun, interactive way.  Whoa.  Lots about Spore is out there on the web, but the above link (Spore's first public unveiling at E3 2006) is still my favorite.  TED talk is also excellent.

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PhotoSynth
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labs.live.com/photosynth

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Very cool collaboration between Microsoft Research and University of Washington, using rendering technology developed at Seattle-area startup Seadragon (which Microsoft acquired).  Amazing technique of registering random photos of a known object to infer a 3D point cloud of that object, then fly-through photospace in 3D.  Nicely done.

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Virgin Galactic
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www.virgingalactic.com

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Space Tourism.  Coming Soon.  Cool.

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