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!
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com