[sudo-discuss] A new massive projector donated to SudoRoom

We have a 14,000 lumen sanyo projector that was donated to SudoRoom. This thing is bright enough to play in office light and possibly even daylight! It's so cool, thanks to Jake and the others for bringing this baby. We were able to find a DVI HDMI cable, and we tested projecting some Kara walker on the walls. https://www.flickr.com/photos/miromi/52015867232/in/dateposted/ I mean, if we can project this even in a bright room, this would be really cool! It's fun to hack alongside others instead of being exiled to the ballroom. Projector + viewer movement Another thought hit me - some people suggested making an interactive kinect camera that projects upon people in front of the projector. these are cool experiments have been popular in the past, and you see them in full immersion rooms in museums. There is even a kinect at SudoRoom! But I just realized that modern smartphones (android and ios) are so powerful that it's typical for them to have body tracking algorithms with the camera so we could code projectons and animaions with just a standrad cell phone attached. I think there's also a use for kinect if we need it, but it's not as hard as it used to be. Face trackinga on android https://developers.google.com/ar/develop/augmented-faces Capturing body motion ios https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit/content_anchors/capturing_b… I think I'm a mobile developer by trade, and i think it hedges me in, but what's nice is that we can get something cool up quickly, and with these frameworks there doesn'te ven need to be a network connection or any weird connection to a networked API. It was also rad just looking at the Kara Walker projection. A lot of the innovation in environment art, conceptual art and augmented reality even has been experimented on by artists like Kara Walker https://art21.org/read/kara-walker-projecting-fictions-insurrection-our-too… Her Insurrection piece is really rad! I have also been looking at art by Jacolby Satterwhite. https://art21.org/read/the-tactile-technological-touch-of-jacolby-satterwhi… Imagine if we used the light projections to create a different sudoroom environment every time people came in! Like there's a theme every week! I think that would be cool, instaed of creating this event that's sort of divoced from our routine at the hardware hacknight! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com