Globacore (Canada) creates stunningly creative multi-touch solutions, together with event communication agency Taylor Group (Canada). The software is Snowflake using its vision tracker feature. Check out the recent project at Aldar booth at Cityscape Dubai 2009. Globacore has done several installations in Dubai worth checking out - for ex YAS Island where “Ferrari Theme Park” and “Ferrari World” is located. On this surrreal Island – Ferrari cars are more common than people… They have budget for creating cutting edge event marketing projects and… its awesome, I love it etc. etc…
This weekend I watched “Minory Report” to see how the movie producers thought of new technology back in 2002. The movie is full of multi-touch, gestural input interaction, holograms etc. Technologies that today, seven years later, slowly is becoming a reality. Interesting to see: whatever we imagine, becomes reality.
Chief scientist for Oblong Industries, John Underkoffler, was one of the movie’s science and technology advisors to the film and based the design of those scenes directly on his earlier work at MIT. The G-Speak platform is already in use in a variety of Fortune 50 companies, government agencies and universities – Oblong Industries offer a SDK that runs on both Linux and Mac OS X. This blogpost inspired by: Accidental Thinking.
‘SixthSense‘ is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. This is a technology that creates the WOW effect in me. WOW!! The current prototype system costs approximate $350 to build
“Sniff is an interactive projection in a storefront window. As the viewer walks by the projection, her movements and gestures are tracked by a computer vision system.” Visit SNIFF to read more. “Sniff is created with Unity3d Game Engine which renders the dog in real time and allows to dynamically change his behavior based on the video tracking data. The sidewalk is illuminated with infrared lights. An infrared-sensitive camera is used to monitor the sidewalk in front of the display windows. We track the position of each viewer and implement simple gesture recognition, so that fast, big actions are interpreted as threatening and slow actions directed at the dog (for example hand extended in his direction) are interpreted as friendly. The dog keeps track of the attitude of the viewer and forms a relationship with them over time based on the history of interaction.”
A patented technology by Gesturetek, optical recognition of gestures to control for ex. interactive displays at events. Without controls, just use your body and hands to access the multimedia content. Over 4000 installations made. I just love it.
Abbreviations. We love them. Here’s a rather new one: CYOA! Choose your Own Adventure Video! We have seen it before, but now with YouTube annotations its done online as well. Please visit this blog for some nice examples of this nice technology.
