tph wrote:

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.

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

That was a quick clarification!

Good luck with your career Tuomas!

Good luck to B&O consolidating everything into a shiny cone.

Graham

vikinger wrote:

Good luck with your career Tuomas!

Severed_Hand_of_Skywalker wrote:

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

And if you use a piece of string between 2 of them you have the next BeoCom lol :-) 

tph wrote:

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

Tuomas, you and your colleagues did a great job on a prototype.  All jokes aside in my above post, it does better from one of my altime favourite products the a9 where the only failing i see is that when you change sources you dont see what you're actually on (source), this type of prototype would aliviate that.

It reminds me of that technology that is used to 'beam' a keyboard (microsoft) and you can use it to type.

Great job. 

Great to see the company working with the interactive prototyping course students on the project!

Thanks for all of your kind words, much appreciated 🙂 

There's another project we're doing with the company, that's still ongoing and I can't share yet what we've been working on.

This collaboration has been a fun experience for someone like me who's very new to the world of Bang & Olufsen. I don't own any of their products, but I have a feeling that I've caught the BeoBug during this spring... 😕

Cant help but notice the similarities to the picture drawn by Hjort in this thread:

http://archivedforum2.beoworld.org/forums/p/20562/169090.aspx#169090

"Drawing from memory, from a leaked picture.

Beosound 1. Will come in two sizes. Idea is that you can have it on your kitchen bench.

Part of multiroom experience. Have its own sources.

Material is aluminum. The top piece house the tweeter pointing downwards.

Launch in August."

piece of crap concept. These products are destroying the soul of consumer electronics.  Looks like a colour light Micky Mouse Disney Toy for 6 years old. 

Gatex wrote:

piece of crap concept. These products are destroying the soul of consumer electronics.  Looks like a colour light Micky Mouse Disney Toy for 6 years old. 

Colour could be linked as on moment to a mood light. And the interaction as Jean-Michel Jarre light harp?