Very nice. Wish it were real and not just a concept.

Razlaw wrote:

Very nice. Wish it were real and not just a concept.

But why oh why would you want something like that? It's souless. It's not a dead projection. There's no tactile buttons to touch and feel. I hate the idea. It's cold and impersonal. 

Uber cool, like something out of a scifi movie. An elegant way to implement a mood wheel and such without a tablet.

Love it! I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Totally B&O. Hope to see it on the shelves sometime soon.

I like the idea but it looks like an upside down foam cup from the future. 

Watch the original vimeo. Notice how all those light projections show on the hand from some projection point above?

Notice that ugly bracket bolted to the rear of the table but mostly kept out of shot? Does it carry a laser projector?

This interesting concept is surely not quite what it seems.

Graham

I was quite pleasantly surprised to find a thread about this concept and I love reading your thoughts on it so far. I am one of the students of the group who created and built this prototype, and I thought I'd explain a little bit why it is how it is.

vikinger wrote:

Watch the original vimeo. Notice how all those light projections show on the hand from some projection point above?

Notice that ugly bracket bolted to the rear of the table but mostly kept out of shot? Does it carry a laser projector?

This interesting concept is surely not quite what it seems.

Graham

The course was called Interactive Prototyping, so the purpose of this project was not to create a nice-looking, polished and fully functional prototype that would resemble a real product, but instead the aim was to create very rough "tape-to-a-table" prototypes that would be enough for showcasing some of the core interactions and features of the concept.

This is why you see the ugly bracket in the video – it was literally a five-minute weld job out of waste materials and we taped up the projector and a camera to do the projection + motion capture. There's also a big bundle of wires coming out of the cone on the table going to an Arduino, but those were hidden in the gap between the two tables. All of these are connected to a computer running gesture recognition software, Spotify and some custom-written code that allows the different components to talk to each other. 

If this concept was to be taken further, all of the different components would of course be integrated into the cone itself but as I said, that wasn't the point on this course.

We had a designer from Bang & Olufsen visit us several times in Helsinki to see our progress and give feedback, and from what he told us, the different concepts created during the course were met with excitement in the mothership.

Best regards,

Tuomas