INTERACTIVE TANGIBLE TABLETOP MUSIC
Reactable Live! SubMixPro Studio Torino
The Reactable featured in the above video is used for DJ-ing in clubs. The one I've played with is at the science museum in my area - I love it. It is fun to improvise on the Reactable with another person. For more information, see my previous blog posts featuring the Reactable.
AUGMENTED REALITY
While listening to CNBC on my satellite radio on the way home today, I heard that investing in Qualcomm might be a good idea. I wonder if this means that Wall Street analysts think that AR will become mainstream soon...
The video below shows a variety of creative AR game applications:
Qualcomm has an AR SDK that comes with tutorials, samples, an API reference, and developer forums. The SDK can be downloaded from the Qualcomm AR web-page.
For more information:
This sort of technology has been around for a while. For an example, take a look at the 2007 MScape game demo of the AR game, Roku's Reward:
THE KINECT FOR MEDICAL DATA VISUALIZATION
Here is another use of augmented reality, but this time, harnessing the Kinect:
Madhav K. , Kinecthacks
PHOTOELASTIC TOUCH
Transparent Rubbery Interface using a LCD and Photoelasticity
Toshiki Sato, Haruko Mamiya, Taro Tokui, Hideki Koike, The Unversity of Electro-Communications; Kentaro Fukuchi, Japan Science and Technology Agency
Abstract (pdf)
ART AND SCREENS
