I saw this MIT thing as well (because it was running some linux stuff I was interested)... Anyway, what all we digital boys are looking for to control their music live is something like that system Tom Cruise had to control/scan/rewind/play the images in Minority Report, isn't it!?!
G On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 11:51:01PM -0000, Tristan Watkins wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: fab. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 23 November 2006 20:32 > > To: 313@hyperreal.org > > Subject: (313) the reactable > > > > The Reactable, a glimpse of the future? > > > > "The reactable, is a multi-user electronic music instrument > > with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous > > performers share complete control over the instrument by > > moving physical objects on a luminous table surface." > > > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=0h-RhyopUmc > > Looks very similar to a thing that came out of M.I.T. a few years ago which > I had a chance to play with when I stumbled across it in a science and > technology museum in Austria on holiday. This actually looks like the exact > same thing with a software upgrade and some new shape thingys. When I first > saw the video clips I was really excited about it, and was drolling when I > first sawit in person, but I got bored of the generic loops they were > running in about 10 minutes. To be honest, I don't see that it's a big > improvement on the standard knob box. I mean, it's nothing more than a big > interface which has a cool visual element to it that more than one person > can use, but you could accomplish the same thing with multiple knob boxes > and the shape thingys aren't really any better than a knob. > > Tristan > ======= > http://www.phonopsia.co.uk > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.430 / Virus Database: 268.14.14/548 - Release Date: 23/11/2006 > 15:22 > > -- Guilherme Menegon Arantes, PhD Sao Paulo, Brasil ______________________________________________________
