We’ve been busy for the whole month of June, thus the lack of updates to this blog. We built another 80″ MT wall for an AMG Mercedes car launch in Beijing and a 100″ wall for a Kinetic “Out of Home” event in Shanghai and Beijing. So lots of travelling and sleepless nights. But we promise to post more details soon, hopefully when I get down to editing the videos and have them posted asap. However, here are some pics from both events. Hope you like them.
80″ MT Wall
AMG Mercedes Car Launch Event at Badaling in Beijing
100″ MT Wall
Kinetic “Out of Home” 2009 Event in Shanghai & Beijing
As promised, here is the video and photos of our latest build. It’s an 80″ LLP Wall which we built 2 days before the show. In this build, we used the latest tbeta (Community Core Vision by Seth Sandler), which features sending TUIO directly to Flash via TCP, a new calibration technique, more control on blob detection sizes and a cool movement threshold to prevent those “jittery” moments. We have also added in our own ofAddon for the FireflyMV into tbeta that supports 30FPS at 640×480. and The LOUIS XIII MT App was done by FlipScript Interactive.
The other apps that ran during our own demo sessions were:
MediaApp by Taha
Fluid Solver by Memo
Finally, here is the long overdue video of a 60” wall we made for our school’s new library in January 2009. It’s basically an LLP wall and we added a camera at the front to perform motion-based interaction as well. You might notice that the wall is too high! That’s coz the frame constructors had no ergonomic sense and it was too late to do anything about it.
Credit goes to:
1) Seth Sandler for writing tbeta
2) taha for his Nasa WorldWind Plugin and Media App
3) memo for his super cool FluidSolver
4) jimihertz for his processing sketches
5) laurent for his as3 simpledesktop
6) ralphdas for rushing out the Newswell app for us
7) Flipscript for the Chinese News app
We’ve just completed an 80″ MT Wall setup for LOUIS XIII who was the main sponsor for the China (Shanghai) International Boat Show 2009, 16th to 19th April. It’s an LLP setup (which we built from scratch, 2 days before the show) running a media app showcasing photos and videos. The MT app was done by FlipScript. Here’s a teaser pic for you and hopefully, we’ll post more setup details and videos soon.
This is version 0.1 of TUIOmouse for use with your MT tables to control the mouse. Unfortunately, this only works on the Windows Platform. When I have the time, I will extend it to Linux and MacOS.
It was coded using openFrameworks using moka’s ofxtuio addon.
For instructions on how to use, please read the readme.txt in the zipped file.
**TUIOmouse works with both Touchlib and Tbeta.** Or for that matter, any application that sends out TUIO messages.
For use with Tbeta, just launch Tbeta and make sure it is sending TUIO.
For use with Touchlib, just launch OSC.exe
Please send any feedback and suggestions that you might have.
Credit goes to:
risenparadigm (Code adapted from multimouse v0.2)
cerupcat (For helping me test and debug the application)
Thanks guys!
Screen Size: 60” (2 Transparent Glass with Rosco Grey “sandwiched” in between)
Table height: 0.9m
Camera: Firefly MV with 2.8mm lens
Projector: BenQ MP771 (Extremely Short Throw: 74’’ @ 1m)
Bandpass Filter: Normal IR Filter that I bought from a photography shop
Lasers: Four 20mW IR 980nm with line generating lens
Kinetic “Out of Home” 2009 Event in Shanghai & Beijing
