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Pearl Media (US) has produced this interactive storefront installation together with EyeClick. Looking forward to this year and doing similar interactive projects at my new job… Yeah, this year is gonna be fun, inspiring and exciting!
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User Interface Design GmbH wins the “Touch First Developer Challenge“, a Microsoft Surface design contest. Both the graphical design and interaction design is really really nice! ”The award-winning application is an interactive company presentation. Digital cards give information on reference projects, competences, methods, and contact persons of UID. The Surface table is operated via gestural interaction. Apart from gestures that already exist such as touching, rotating, or scaling, UID also developed own gestures.”
I don’t really like bus shelters. Well -up until today. Check this campaign for the upcoming movie Avatar (and LG cellphones). Using touch screens they turn the bus shelter into a multimedia kiosk… Me like.
For more info on how to transform public spaces to interactive marketing… check this blog: The word is my interface.
And…of course - MIT – has a very futuristic bus shelter called the EyeStop. Public transport will be so much more fun in the future…
Virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality. Interactive presentation technology is moving fast. It seems to me - that Germany is ahead of things – already at the edge of new technology with new companies popping up and doing amazingly creative work. So: another new innovative company from Frankfurt gets my total attention (and love) - NewMedia Yuppies (what a great company name! haha I wanna be your Yuppie!). They work with Frauenhofer Researchers and Instant reality. Well worth checking out these links!
But ok, I do love Germany and their innovative companies. Also: a New Zeeland company called MindSpace Solutions, have some innovative people and products as well. Check out this amazing AR binocular technology! It rocks my socks!
Globalzepp (Spain) does interactive projections with AR – and most probably this is gonna be big on events and why not as interactive ads in shops? Nice to see how the use of AR is growing so fast…
The entertainment industry is doing a lot of interesting new stuff as well in the AR business. Check this post from the Future Digital Life blog. Mark Mine, a Walt Disney Imagineering Director, says “Seeing is believing, but touching is truth”…
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…
Our Dual-Screen Multi Touch System at Dubai Cityscape 2009 from Ben Unsworth on Vimeo.
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.”