Interactive Projection getting better every day

Posted by Brian Reale on 26 August 2009 | 5 Comments

Tags: Interactive Projection, projection art, spotlesslight, interactive LED wall technology

We spent the day yesterday at the hyper cool loft space of Niles Creative Group in downtown Manhattan to try out a few new spotlesseffects. Alex is polishing off a new effect called "the wave" which will soon be approved and released as a stock effect in the Spotlesslight. The wave is an interesting breed of effect for us because it is the first in a planned series that will make much more use of our active background layer. This time, instead of shining light only onto a performer, we are shining light only around the performer and affecting the projection through the movements of the performer. The cool thing about the new Lightwarper is that it separates the background, foreground, and multiple passive object layers. This means that if you are interested only in generating effects around your performers you can do so. Or you can combine them with a totally independent set of effects cued up on the performer. It's really unbelievably dynamic now and puts the spotlesslight into a whole new category of interactive projection and interactive entertainment devices.

I say interactive entertainment because yesterday we took our output and put it simultaneously onto a 6500 lumen Christie Digital (LX650 projector) and onto a 4mil Barco LED Wall. Wow now that was cool! (those are the kinds of toys David plays with daily). So, in case you aren't following, let me lay it out for you:

Media Server or Live Video Feed --------->Spotlesslight FX300 on board server -----------> Mixing our Spotlesseffects ------------------->Output to Projector + LED Wall = Very Cool

By the end of the day yesterday we were all giddy with the new interactive entertainment possibilities. In fact, it looks like we will be trying them out at PLASA at Earl's Court in 2 weeks time. So stay tuned to find out where to find us and what you'll see there.