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October 05, 2004

Everywhere Display

There's a blurb in the Gadget section of this week's Time Magazine (the October 11th issue) about a wall mounted projector paired with a camera. The camera is suppose to track people's interaction with the visuals...like a touch screen keos on a larger scale. Anyone know more about this or seen a prototype?

http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101041011/gadgets/6.html

Posted by shelby at October 5, 2004 04:53 PM

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Although there are a lot similar design like that, this one is really neat that they take advantage of the space by using a mirror.

Posted by: jenova at October 5, 2004 05:34 PM

It's a little interesting that it's a convex mirror, but mirror bouncing is common. Not much new here from what I can see, accept that it's a potential product with a big name behind it. Lot's of simlar stuff out there. Some examples:

Brian Knep
http://home.comcast.net/~bleppie/blep/healing/

David Rokeby's
http://homepage.mac.com/davidrokeby/installations.html
http://homepage.mac.com/davidrokeby/sorting.html

Zachary Booth Simpson's MineControl
http://www.mine-control.com/

Charles Forman
http://www.setpixel.com/content/?ID=107&F=2
http://www.setpixel.com/content/?ID=105

etc, etc

Posted by: brad at October 5, 2004 08:21 PM

Hi Shelby

I'm Senior Interactive Filmmaker at British Telecom in London - I'm interested in what you say about filmmaking for computers. We're doing quite a lot of this, for example...

* a retro 60's-style video quiz we did for the Tate this summer… http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/artandthe60s/66

* a "reverse interview" we've shot with a pop star called Holly Valance… http://www.movieactive.com/reverse_iv
(N.B. downloadable .exe demo only)

* Or a range of other things, from tours round temples in Thailand to interactive ads, all nestling happily together at my site… http://www.movieactive.com

More stuff coming soon for the Tate, National Theatre, British Film Institute, etc... Comments welcome!

all the best

Martin

Posted by: Martin_in_London [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 21, 2004 03:53 AM

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