Monthly Archives: December 2007

Interactive Wall of Fans

 

Daan Roosegaarde of Studio Roosegaarde is doing some pretty cool sensor projects. This one connects proximity sensors and audio sensors to hundreds of little fans to create an interactive wind installation. Watch video of the installation »

 

Wii-based headtracking = Cheap VR

 

This spawns from a recent discussions we had about head tracking and creating very believable VR on a 2D display. It looks like that crazy Wii-mote guy has done it again – headtracking with a wiimote! Watch the video on … Continue reading →

 

Traverse Through Space and Time in Flash

 

“Ikea’s Dreamkitchen offers a tremendous visual experience: visitors navigate in slow motion in 3D through IKEA products. Interesting effect: the volume of the music changes as you pass throught the “IKEA universe”. Further examples: Dromkok, Demo. In the latter examples … Continue reading →

 

Minority Report interaction

 

No silly gloves (or wiimote) ! The ZCam is the first low-cost, consumer videocamera that can capture video with depth information and probably the first real challenger to Nintendo’s Wiimote: with its 3D capture abilities it will allow you to … Continue reading →

 

Flexible Displays: A technology round-up

 

We have had a fascination with flexible displays (don’t we all?) for quite some time. Some of us even played around with funky double-hinged laptop designs that had a continuous display surface while in college (purely vapor concepts, of course). … Continue reading →

 

Windows Mobile 7 Goes Multitouch

 

“I will say that if you are impressed by the ‘touch features’ in the iPhone, you’ll be blown away by what’s coming in Windows 7. Now if only we could convince more OEMs that Windows Touch Technology is going to … Continue reading →

 

Funky Forest: Interactive Ecosystem

 

“Working together with the amazing Emily Gobeille, we created the interactive installation, ‘Funky Forest’ which premiered at the 2007Cinekid festival in the Netherlands. ‘Funky Forest’ is an interactive ecosystem where children create trees with their body and then divert the … Continue reading →

 

Magnetic Ink

 

“Now there is a three step process. For the first step, over a period of 100 frames, the gravity orbs paint their cross-section onto the paper where it intersects it. The second step, also cumulative over 100 frames, has the … Continue reading →