The contractor, S&D Consulting International, based in New York, has produced an electronic device that fits inside a bugle and plays a digital rendition of taps.
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The digital rendition was so lifelike that gazing down from the Wall gave some folk vertigo.Such a compelling experience explains why Oculus Rift, the company's virtual-reality headset, has captivated keen gamers.
Re "Lift Bugle, Press Play: A High-Tech Taps" (Nov. 14), on a device that fits inside a bugle and plays a digital rendition of taps at veterans' funerals: I'm no Luddite, but this is ridiculous.
It's thrilling to think that these kindred spirits who were all obsessing over the same stuff in their youths are now discovering each other and forming a sort of group around it". Nostalgia, it seems, doesn't come in a more neatly packaged form than a digital rendition of a magazine page.
CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2 Without question the most anticipated title of the fall for core gamers, Modern Warfare 2 is expected to succeed its predecessor as the most sophisticated and intense yet accessible digital rendition of today's battlefields.
Oculus Rift, the prototype headset that Oculus has developed, was recently on show at SXSW, a techie fest in Texas, and wowed delegates lucky enough to wear it and experience the company's digital rendition of the 700-foot Wall that protects the Seven Kingdoms in HBO's fantasy series "Game of Thrones".Other companies have also set their sights on the virtual-reality arena.
While moms and dads string lights on houses that they will spend the rest of their lives paying for, Katz decorates a digital rendition of her computer, a representation of the tool through which she creates art.
The digital rendition of the rapper (who graced the stage with Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre) set Twitter ablaze (see below) and continues to spawn rumors of other famous holograms (talks of a Left Eye hologram are in high gear as TLC's T-Boz and Chilli prep a new tour).
That sense of comfort can initially please when you look at a faux rendition of a complex watch on a little OLED screen, but it eventually grates, dropping us into the uncanny valley of digital rendering.
