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Museum of Arts and Design

This is the award winning media installations for the Museum of Arts and Design, New York by Lisa Strausfeld, Pentagram.

Recent Developments in dbisinteractive

Here are recent research and development materials from dbisinteractive.

Multi-touch Table

Flash Augmented Reality Prototype

g-speak gestural interaction from Oblong Industries

From the createdigitalmotion blog, I found this new gestural interaction platform, g-speak from Oblong Industries. The interaction mechanism seems to demand a relatively spacious environment with multiple projections to operate. To employ this, we need to redesign our daily computation tasks in an office like desktop environment into a room like virtual space.

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Digital by Design book from Troika

Finally, the Digital by Design book by Troika (UK) is now available. It covers a lot of interactive art and design examples, especially in the area of physical computing and device art.

Image from http://www.amazon.co.uk/

SMS in Processing

Using the SMSLib, I manage to use a mobile phone as a gateway to receive SMS message from others with Processing. I have tried both Nokia 6288 and Sony Ericsson T610. The Nokia one fails and Sony Ericsson works. I use Bluetooth to connect the mobile phone to my computer as a modem. By changing [...]

Khronos Projector

It is a kind of out dated news. Here are some clips I searched from YouTube about the Khronos Projector.

LM3LABS – Ubiq’window

I just found that the recent IT expo featured the Japanese Ubiq’window of LM3LABS in Hong Kong. They start the sales and rental services of the interaction device.

NTT InterCommunication from Nicolas Loeillot on Vimeo.

Interactive Depth of Field Floor from Nicolas Loeillot on Vimeo.

Photosynth + LM3LABS from Nicolas Loeillot on Vimeo.

The creative force is CatchYoo.

Softkinetic

Softkinetic is another company selling 3D tracking technology for interaction and game.

Video from http://www.softkinetic.com

CamSpace

I remember either e-zone or PCM mentioned this software recently. It is a kind of simple implementation of colour tracking as an interaction device.

Video from http://www.camspace.com

Gesture Recognition in Processing 2

Here are two more demonstration of the use of gesture recognition in Processing. The first video is the training process where user types in a symbol name (label) and draws at least 5 samples. After all the symbols are entered, press the ‘Train’ button to start training the HTK model. Press the ‘Save’ button to [...]