I love this example of the Rubens Tube:
I can see lots of ways of using this in an interactive way. Imagine using proximity, force, mind manipulation as a sound wave – there are loads of possibilities.
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Off the back of my last post on Microsoft’s Touch Wall and my slightly off-topic update dealing with OpenFrameworks, these are the two guys behind OF:
Theodore Watson (http://muonics.net/)
Zach Lieberman (http://thesystemis.com)
United Visual Artists (http://www.uva.co.uk/) are also using it heavily.
Image taken from Theodore Watson’s latest work, Funky Forest: An interactive ecosystem
Edging closer to a touchscreen in every home.
Update:
…and then I clicked on another interesting link to ‘Lux’ a Mac verion of the same…
It’s built using OpenFrameworks and it all has been run and developed using Flash. The developer who created it is Christian Moore. He’s been interviewed by Gizmodo here.
Open Frameworks is a C++ cross-platform library for visual experimentation interfaces…It’s awesome for really processor intensive stuff.
Definitely going to get the gang looking into this in the near future.
Transparent ‘Minority Report’ touchscreen demoed at CeBit 2008
More info can be found at wired.com
This seems to have been part of T-Mobile’s CeBit 2008 advertising campaign and it’s worked very well! A transparent screen is really impressive and certainly shows a slice of what’s to come from conferences and motor shows for years to come.
Tags: interactive, touchscreen, multi-touch
