Digital Wall
Cooliris Digital Wall
Mimio attached to iMac with Cooliris Digital Wall
I have been experimenting with two technologies to create a “digital wall” for the exhibit for the Digital tectonics studio:
1. The Mimio bar for using a touch-sensitive screen
2. The cooliris digital wall plugin
I have managed to get it all working. I also purchased a 5mm 126x113cm translucent perspex screen.
The idea is that we rear-project a full-screen cooliris wall of preloaded studio project images. The users can use the Stylus to swipe the wall and click on images to enlrage.
In the experiment above, I connected the Mimio bar to my iMac and launched the cooliris plugin in full-screen mode. I was able to use the stylus to swipe the digital wall left and right and click on images to enlrage. Was very responsive and intuitive.
Should look very good!
Feedback? Ideas? We’ll try it next week. I need images!
Wassim
Looks exciting! Presumably you can also include animated content? This may be far better than conventional looping/slideshow technique. Is there any news on the projectors?
I am debating using either the cooliris plugin or something called tiltview. The cooliris is far more dynamic and can include videos that play when you click them, but it has all sorts of buttons around the screen that can take you out of full-screen mode into a web browser and the system.. so it is not controllable. Tiltview, on the other hand, is very controllable and allows the user to flip an image around to read a description on its back. It cannot, however, play animated content, just regular jpgs.
If we use cooliris, I would want to cover the bottom bar and the left side. but each image has links as well which cannot be covered.
I put up an example of tiltview at http://wjabi.net/digitalwall
We got two projectors for the duration. I have them in my office.
The digital wall is a great idea – it gives us the chance to show all the work that won’t make it to the boards. I wonder, can you play Flash games within Cooliris, i.e. could people play my game? I’ll do some research after some of these deadlines have passed…