Yet another cool thing to do with a WiiMote: Build an electronic multi-touch whiteboard. The WiiMote includes an infrared camera which can be used to track points which reflect infrared light. Johnny Chung Lee used this feature to work with self-made infrared pens on various surfaces (primarily projections): The descriptions sounds as if it should […]
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Even interactive installations usually let their users stand around relatively motionless. I wonderful counter-example is Move, a kind of game which I saw at the Ars Electronica Festival 2007. Move consists of a game field which is projected onto the floor. You stand on this field and will be animated to move in different game […]
Interactive Shop Window Advertising The Digitalist created an interesting ad for Elle Macpherson Intimates (apparently an underwear brand). They placed a huuuge display in a shop window which shows only the brand name on black background by default. As soon as someone moves in front of the window, this visitor’s silhouette opens a view behind […]
An interactive installation by Daan Roosegaarde is called Dune 4.0. It consists of hundred of black fibers with LED-lighted tops, which react on the movements and sounds of passing visitors. It kinda reminds one of futuristic techno reed. 🙂 Daan Roosegaarde refers to his installation as an interactive landscape. I like this beautiful, slightly eerie […]
“Headbanging” describes a way in that rock music enthusiasts consume music not only passively, but strive to gain a more intense musical experience through rhythm-abiding nodding and shaking of their heads. (Laszlo Bardos, translated by me) If headbanging is such an established instrument for enhanced musical experience, why not use it to create music in […]
The audiovisual and interactive installation Volume consists of numerous shining columns, which are installed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The columns change their optical textures when visitors walk between them. Probably, the sound of the installation changes as well – but that is not described anywhere. Volume is a cooperation between United […]
Last semester, Erik and myself created an interactive music video installation called “Dave“. It was the – so far – most intense project I have done. Well, it was worth it. 🙂 We created the first installation of this kind that I know of. The recipient, surrounded by displays, can alter the course of the […]