following kevin's latest blog regarding the reactable, I was thinking we should go beyond the usual table and create something more innovative....
The table can be the stage. This means that we can have instrument pictures printed with fiducials at the bottom and when the actual instrument (picture) is placed on stage, the music will play.
If the perspex screen is set up with a projector underneat, the stage can be shown on the perspex itself, and the user would not need to see the laptop at all or interact with it. (because so far what we have is rather than placing the fiducials infront of the webcam, we just place them on a table with a webcam underneat...)
This kind of eliminates the pictures we have set up though (which might not be a bad idea)
This idea can further elaborated by having the tabletop set up vertically instead of horizontally... so that it would look more like a stage...
lemmi know what you think...
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ReplyDeleteok wait i think i got it...i like the idea but there's one major problem:
ReplyDeletemoney money money..having a projector under the table means we cannot use the center's projector...we will need to invest in our own projector...=/..
also, either way, for purpose of presentation it would be best to set up the secondary webcam to record hand movements from birds-eye perspective, thus allowing our audience to see what we are physically doing.
I agree with you Kev as we can come up with a more refined User Interface instead...
ReplyDeleteBut I think that if we really want to have an edge over the others I think that we should come up with innovative solutions such as the above... ;)
Some weeks ago I saw tutorials on the internet on how to actually build one. We can actually build multi-touch displays using such a setup and Processing... Search for FTIR or Frustrated Total Internal Reflections.. ;)
http://jeraman.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/tuio-and-processing/