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On Thursday, October 13th, Esquire kicks off the ninth annual Ultimate Bachelor Pad party here in New York and will be featured on the TODAY Show tomorrow at 9:35am ET. Luxurious Animals was graciously invited back to envision a new way for Lufthansa to interact in the modern social world. The result is two massive installations called the 5th Clock and the Stream. Guests of the event will be able to control the 5th clock by tweeting various locations around the world while the Stream will allow people to stay in touch with friends, scan current trending topics, and view photo libraries on a truly hands-free large-scale. Watch our Today Show segment starting at 2:18 here.

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Creative / Video

In November 2010, Microsoft released their highly-anticipated technology called the Kinect. The Kinect is an add-on feature for the Xbox console system. It allows for interaction without the use of any kind of controller. Luxurious Animals secured a Kinect before the official release, we can assure you it's pretty cool to use your body as the controller.… Read More

Labs

Behind The Scenes / Development

This tutorial is a continuation from the previous blog, "Baking Textures for Video Games." Now that you're baking away textures yourself, we're going to enlighten you a little more on texturing by showing how to quickly convert daytime models to nighttime.… Read More

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3D / Tutorials

If you're following the progress of our Esquire House media room, you know that our flight simulator game is a key element to the project. It allows a user to virtually soar over island cities that we modeled in 3D. Because the game renders the 3D models in realtime, smooth framerates are crucial to the experience. So we came upon the question, how can we make the 3D objects look as realistic as possible without… Read More

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3D / Tutorials

For the last couple of months we’ve been building an interactive installation for Lufthansa’s media room in Esquire’s Ultimate Bachelor Pad. Invited guests will get the chance to virtually fly through clouds and three-dimensional worlds with our gesture technology.

Typically, the core of an interactive project is experienced through sight and sound. We knew in this particular case, the ultimate bachelor required something special. Since flying is such a sensory experience, we needed to… Read More

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Behind The Scenes