The thing about projectors...

The previous few posts with videos about interactive surfaces have mostly been developed using projectors. I hate projectors. Yeah its pretty and all when Sydney throws out some projectors in the city on buildings and whatever, and call it a "Light festival" but its still crap. People walk through projections, breaking the image, the machines are never properly calibrated, they break blah blah blah. 

Microsoft, those clever kids, rocked out this video a while back demonstrating their vision for 2019 (why 2019? I have no idea). They have cutesy gadgets, simulations, tablet to wall to table interface and overly cheerful people. That stupid newspaper though. WHY? Why have a a flexible material that has UI and a clear need for a flat surface? The reason newspapers are newspapers is due to the cheap material, mass production, and the most efficient transportation. Ugh. Don't get me started on the roof-top gardens. 







Back on point - Projectors. 

Adobe created an interactive installation. Again projectors and screens and infra-red cameras etc. Just watch it and get the info.

Do these types of technologies disengage us from the tangible world? Do they inspire us to flail around as if we've been caught in spider webs? The landscape of the local train platform will look very different if this type of ideology/technology develops our watches re post "HUD Test, mgfxstudio". 

Dario Buzzinni (great name), italian inventor, created "Not-So-White-Walls". The wallpaper is covered in a grid of sensors and techy stuff which makes it far more tangible than projector walls. In theory it looks as if gadgets AND people can manipulate these walls.