Multimedia experiments that fuel tomorrow’s interactivity
The past couple of years have seen boundless development in the world of user interactivity. The Nintendo Wii and Apple’s iPhone are two wonderful examples of user interfaces that, while not unprecedented, surprised a lot of people with their elegance and near-perfect execution. With an increasing faith in the fact that such magical things can happen, there seems to be a growing community of creatives who are using devices enabled with motion and touch sensitivity (as well as other physical inputs like light and sound) toward unexpected ends. Many of these projects are purely for experimentation and entertainment, but they are without a doubt pushing the next generation of interface designers to create new applications in everyday life. Applications like MAX/MSP and the Open Source application Processing are a key intermediary between real-world, physical inputs and actions either on-screen or in some other real-world output. Here are three exciting projects in that vein; stimulating and unpolished.
The mad scientists at Grafitti Research Lab Vienna use a projector, lasers, Processing and a Processing plug-in called “laser marker” (which is free on the GRLV website) to create gigantic, impermanent graffiti. GRLV was recently featured in a Make Magazine Blog entry.
This fellow uses a Wii-mote as a MIDI controller in Ableton Live.
This demo uses the free application WMIDI which allows you to use a Wacom Tablet as a MIDI controller.
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