king talk

Something about one month ago, the Austrian pavilion opened its gates at Expo 2010. Visitors can enter a world made of 73 video projectors and 30 server splitted up into four areas with floor, wall and ceiling projections which can be  interactive explored from time to time. The first room is called the »Mountain« and has its own virtual snow slope. Visitors can throw snow or styrofoam balls at it (as long as it‘s available) and can experience the auditive and visual feedback which is coming back from nature.

Visitors activate floor visuals by passing by. These visuals change depending on the topic of the current area. The second area is called »Wood«, a room filling projection of a forrest. Many people knock at the wall simultaneously and this multi-punching interface reacts back to the visitor by showing up austrian typical objects and animations like beekeeper, hunter, biker and many other stuff which can be seen at a forrest.

Another area is dominated by water, it‘s a little lake displayed by only 12 projectors. Some visitors are scared to cross the floor with water ripples, but as the four seasons go by the water freezes up. In spring Kids are playing with fishes which are swimming around. The last stop is the city, actually a virtual one again, except the three live musicians playing classic songs and one electroni impro artist. The visitors can choose between six sub topics by interacting with the floor. I like the idea of these four virtual worlds which should leave the expirience of beeing there to the public. It would be interesting to test the experience. Do you really feel like beeing in an austrian forrest for example? Panorama projection is good, but what‘s about smelling, hearing and touching? Would be interesting to see these senses integrated…

via Woeishi Lean

Barely a week has passed since the Deutsche Museum opened up the gates to our latest project, the brand new ZNT (Center for New Technologies). This week the Museum published this »Making of« Clip. Can you imagine that it looked quite like that one week before the opening? With a hundred of willing hands working there and some serious sleep deprivation the exhibition could open in time.

via youtube channel of Deutsches Museum