October 4, 2004
Video Instrument
Bolas said that I should be looking more at the performance aspects of my thesis... so stumbling across this tonight was convenient:
Tactic is a patented handcrafted wooden instrument that allows users to physically interact with live multimedia such as video for performance, recording, installation and presentation. Tactic introduces physical expression to multimedia creation by allowing the user to be separate from their computer while creating.
Posted by kurt at October 4, 2004 1:58 AMComments
this looks nice -- I'd be wary of the fact it looks very specfic (non-extensible). I've always been a big fan of the phat boy ( http://www.yamaha.co.uk/xg/html/products/p_phatb.htm )
or if you really want to get crazy, the icube system is sweet -- can plug basically anything into it to use as a midi controller: http://i-cubex.com/catalog/index.php
but those may not be what you are looking for.
Posted by: will at October 4, 2004 8:41 AM
It's also very expensive (2999) for something that I could easily build myself. I think they're going for the "handcrafted" instrument look, which is an interesting approach for a technology product. The most interesting aspect of this is that apparently this company feels there are enough people doing video mixing that they can market a product specifically for it.
Posted by: kurt at October 4, 2004 12:54 PM
yeah, you've hit in on the head -- it's amazing that someone has risked a lot in the belief there is a market for a $2999 video mixer.
Posted by: will at October 4, 2004 12:55 PM
I would say maybe take a look at the link posted on my second most recent blog entry...
Posted by: noha at October 5, 2004 1:15 AM
http://interactive.usc.edu/members/noha/
Posted by: noha at October 5, 2004 1:16 AM
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