On October 29th we held a party to celebrate the launch of our new web site and to showcase some of the interactive side projects we've been working on.
The event was a success on all accounts. Thanks to all who attended, the ARTS Project for being great hosts and to the ResIM team for all their hard work.
The LCD pictured above is running a Flash application that uses the Twitter API and Papervision3D to pull in and display tweets marked with the hashtag '#rx09.' When posted, each tweet (including the account avatar) appears in a large view before dropping back to a 3D stream of all previous tweets. Stay tuned for a web release of this app soon. Thanks Andrew, nice work on this one.
People had a ton of fun with this LED/spray can piece by Brendan. This application uses infared light at 850nm captured using a special IR camera (behind the projection screen), allowing light blobs to be sent to interface technology such as Flash. In this case the light blobs created a spray paint effect allowing our guests to decorate the canvas without paint.
It's not the greatest shot but the iMac in the background is running an augmented-reality application that is able to recognize faces by detecting areas of light/dark in face-like configurations. The detection technology is based on "Real Time Face Detection in Flash" from Squidder.com. Great work Geoff.
Jon watches while guests try out the new web site. Jon and Owain put a ton of work into this piece while throwing together a loop of the case study videos we've compiled recently. I can't forget to thank Kyra for her calm demeanor and grace under fire -- definitely a welcome addition!
We all had a great time bringing this event to life and look forward to doing it all over again at 'RX10'!