o9Media

As it seems, Google has been engulfing the tech community with all sorts of new releases and products to have you connected to Google: Google Desktop, Google Earth, Google Maps, Google Talk, Google Mail, iGoogle, YouTube, Blogger, Android, the list goes on. Today, Google announced their newest edition to the family, Google Chrome, an open-source web browser project. It was revealed today on Blogoscoped along with a 38 page scan of a “comic book” detailing Chrome in all of its “metallicy” goodness. As a conveyor of the news it is my duty and obligation to read all 38 pages and report back on the finer of points. However, if readers will take a moment to acknowledge who I am and the laziness I display, you all know that isn’t going to happen. Though, as mentioned above Blogoscoped gives a brief, information laden recap of the comic if you were as inclined as I was to read it.

Due to my lack of enthusiasm I don’t want to discourage readers into thinking this will be a bum release. From what I have read, I can assure you this will be big, very big. Despite all the hype, there is no word yet on when we will get to use Google Chrome.

The optical illusion genius, David OReilly, is working on his latest project, titled ihologram, which gives the illusion of a 3D hologram jumping off the screen. As OReilly says on his site, “The application works by assuming a constant viewing angle (35-45 degrees), typical for when the device is placed on a tabletop. The 3d scene’s perspective is warped using anamorphosis, the same technique used in Hans Holbein’s painting The Ambassadors. This application does the exact same but updates dynamically.” The software works by using the iPhone’s built in gyroscope to calculate it’s rotation on the y-axis, which gives the controller the ability to look around the environment by turning the device.

Regardless of the full functionality of o9Media right now, today is June 9th - And what does this mean? Yeah, the details of the new iPhone 2 along with the release of the iPhone and iPod Touch firmware 2.0. I’m pissing myself in excitement as Steve Jobs is currently presenting the keynote at WWDC. The new firmware and keynote should come along later today.



Get more info on today’s keynote here
EDIT — It’s here!
EDIT — I seem to have gotten ahead of myself, the new software will be out early July.
Goddamnit.