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hundreds of box fans as interactive art

Flow 5.0 by Daan Roosegaarde

This unusual art installation took hundreds and hundreds of individual cooling fans, and tied them together with sensors that detect the movements of passersby to produce an amazing visual and sensory experience.

Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde worked with a team of technical wizards to create this mammoth interactive work entitled Flow 5.0. The display dynamically…

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December 14th, 2007 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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prototype augmented reality system from msft

Check out this cool video of Microsoft’s prototype for an augmented reality system known as “PlayAnywhere“. The system combines a video projector and a sensing device that can detect a user’s gestures and the position objects placed on a surface in real time, and utilize that data to create a highly interactive and intuitive user interface.…

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August 6th, 2006 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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