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The inteligent wall
Bostjan Burger 2008-Jun-03 08:10:00
Hi all,
That maid be interesting?I am sometimes involved in so many projects that I forget what was done in the past?the similar (or almost the same way) as the Globorama was presented Slovenian second largest city Maribor ? and that was in the year 2005 : http://black.fri.uni-lj.si/2005/karticepdf/k7.pdf .
"The inteligent wall project" has included beside VR panoramas also video clips and interactive video conference. The idea of that wall was of Gasper Demsar a second year postgraduate student at the Academy of Fine Arts, Industrial Design Department.
He politely asked me to participate more than one year before the realisation and I was positive ;)
The citation for those who won't open the pdf file from the link:
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The interactive urban elements project involves the idea and application of the so called intelligent wall, the theme bearer in the urban area. The intelligent wall as an interactive urban element - an installation - becomes a generator of the urban ground floor and a mediator between a user and new interactive technologies. The application of the interactive media in the scheme of urban elements enhances the indirect communication between a visitor and the selected themes. Recent information technologies
have influenced the city development and POLIS growing into MEDIAPOLIS, the city of new urban mythology infused with new technologies and interactions. A computerconnected camera helps detect the location of every individual in the space of installation. Various locations of the user trigger particular events, which are projected on the surface of the intelligent wall. Moving around the selected area, the users are entitled to various themes connected to the city of Maribor. These being video clips from a film
documentary on a Slovene sculptor Slavko Tihec, scenic views of Maribor by Bo?tjan Burger, a video conference broadcast and a review of the web-site from the 11th
International Festival of Computer Arts (Matja? Jogan, Narvika Bovcon, Ale? Vaupoti? et al.).
From a technical point of view the biggest challenge is to feature the crowds of people triggering different themes at the same time. For easier identification the ground floor is
covered in coloured fields (theme triggers), which must differ from the background. A visitor entering a theme field triggers its projection on the intelligent wall. Moving freely
around the fields, various themes are selected and projected, all depending on the choice of the urban-area user who becomes an active participant of the preferable theme.
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:) Bostjan
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