Tag Archives: projection

Schematic Touch Wall Demo

June 25, 2010 – 4:18 AM

Every week day at 3:10 PM, Trevor Kaufman gives a demo of the Schematic Touch Wall. The demo features concepts for how our clients, like Dell and Nokia, could use a giant multitouch display to highlight product information and features. Our sister agency at Bridge Worldwide also demo interactive touch wall concepts for Charmin and [...]

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Minority Report UI In Real Life

June 11, 2010 – 7:47 PM

Everyone at Schematic has a soft spot in their hearts for Minority Report because our Chief Creative Officer, Dale Herigstad, was part of the research team that developed the visionary gestural interfaces used by Tom Cruise in the film. In this Ted talk, Minority Report science adviser and inventor, John Underkoffler, demos the real-life version of [...]

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Christie Microtiles Field Trip

March 26, 2010 – 8:18 PM

I recently had the opportunity to take a field trip down to Christie to see MicroTiles in action.  MicroTiles are 12″ (height) by 16″ (width) by 10″ (depth) units that include a projector using rear projection. Their native resolution is 720 x 540 pixels per tile. They can easily be stacked together in different configurations [...]

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The Many Uses of the Open Source EyeWriter

December 24, 2009 – 8:31 AM

In September, I had the opportunity to see James Powderly and Zach Lieberman present their work in progress, The EyeWriter at the 2009 Gadgetoff.  The EyeWriter is an inexpensive open-source eye tracking headset and software created by members of Graffiti Research Lab and the team behind openFrameworks.

The EyeWriter was created to enable graffiti artist Tony [...]

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The MultiTouch Cell

March 20, 2009 – 12:00 PM

I came across this company during our research into multitouch displays. Their approach to scalability and use of LCD displays vs. projection is intriguing. We have not used this provider but their technology seems to have some advantages over existing projection-based IR systems. For starters they state that their LCD displays can support 1920×1080 (true [...]

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