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one of my students wants to capture images of people in a museum in order to create a collage of all visitors per day. i wrote a difference tracker for my diploma in 2003 for Processing .68. it did not work anymore with the latest version of Processing. but it took me only half an hour to get it working again.

i want to rewrite it in order to work as java node in x3d and instantviewer for experimenting with people’s silhuettes in 3d..

source code: trackerdiff_pde.txt (rename to pde)

during the last months i realized my idea of a movable screen as interaction device at the IGD. it is again a minimalistic approach integrating / hiding complex technlogy in famliar hardware. i simply put an 24″ iMac at a rotating pillar and tracked the rotation with a rotation encoder. in order to create the effect of a “window into virtual reality” i am tracking the user’s head and map the position on the virtual camera. primarily it is running instantreality framework for visualization. there are also working prototypes of Second Life, Google Earth and hopefully soon Nasa Worldwind Java.

last week we presented the MovableScreen at the Hannover Messe trade fair at the booth of BMBF. the software shows the simulation of a Coperion bulk materials plant i created together with my colleages at design&systems institute using instantreality framework. we already have sold two MovableScreens until now!

i am happy that i have been working with our mixed reality software for the last years. this weekend johannes finally released the public beta 0 of the instantplayer at Web3D 2007 in italy. it was a lot of work during the last weeks to setup the application, the whole design and the website. finally this great platformindependent piece of software is available to the public for os x and windows.

instantreality.org

the current state of the bubble mirror works on the macbook and its built-in isight. these are some screenshots done with the latest instant reality software.