SolarBlog

Solarsilk was invited to take part in a technology event at DraftFCB, called 8/5/9 In Real Time.

Today we presented our Augmented Reality Twitter search app called solarTweetAR to the enthusiastic attendees, getting a lot of great feedback.

Fellow presenters today included Google, Adobe, Eyeblaster, EyeWonder, Oddcast, Studio IMC and others.

Our latest demo app, called solarTweetAR fuses Augmented Reality, Papervision3D and realtime Twitter search!

Give it a try.

In an effort to familiarize ourselves with Papervision3D, we put together a demo game of the classic arcade game Pong.  Our version, called solarPong3D, features astoundingly lifelike characters (sort of) playing with a beach ball on a 3D beach. This is a beta version, and we have plans to add some features like increasing difficulty levels.  Give it a try.  

We just launched a beta version of solarTube, a demo project showcasing a combination of technologies.

It combines:
• Flash AS3 OOP
• Papervision3D
• pulling YouTube RSS feeds, using the AS3 YouTube Data API written by Martin Legris
• displaying a YouTube video in Flash using YouTube’s new Chromeless player
• Facebook Connect’s Comments Box – a way for a site to implement Facebook Connect along with user comments
• Flash’s External Interface calls Javascript to dynamically write a new Comments Box for each video displayed, displaying that video’s comments

Give it a try and feel free to leave a comment in the Facebook Comments Box, either anonymously, or after logging in to your Facebook Account.

Solarsilk launched on April 1, 2007 and today celebrates its 2 year anniversary. We’d like to thank all of our partners and clients who have made these past 2 years a great success!

Thanks to our partners
BBH
Digital Urbana
DraftFCB
Euro RSCG
Goodby Silverstein
Gotham
Heartbeat Digital
MTV Networks Digital Fusion
Present Company
PSLA
Saatchi & Saatchi
Scripps Networks
Serious USA
Transistor Studios

Thanks to our clients
Activision
Ameriprise
Axe
Bulldog New York
Chris Webber Foundation
CIBA Vision / Novartis
Coach
Elephant Post
Food Network
Glaxo SmithKline
Hyundai
I Love New York
IMS Health
JC Penney
Lean Cuisine
LG Electronics
Miller High Life
Motorola
MTV / Noisey.net
Olay
Saks Fifth Avenue
Scholastic
Sears
Toyota Trucks
You Technology

Today Solarsilk, along with Saatchi & Saatchi, launched a full Flash site for Dailies, the global brand of daily-use contact lenses.  A 3-month effort produced this complex site that incorporates webcam image capture and upload, multiple form submission to CIBA’s backend system, a visual “spot the differences” game, a Flash scrollbar, as well as many other tech goodies.  The site was built fully with Actionscript 3.0, employing standard Object Oriented Programming (OOP) techniques.  Much of the content is controlled using external XML files.  The source files are being sent to regions around the world for localization, along with our detailed code guide that will help those developers understand how to edit the code according to their needs.