Daniel Soltis
Gian Pablo Villamil
Jeff A Sable
Nancy Garcia
Scott Varland
Landscape 360º
Landscape 360º is the result of a four month long internship, with Clifford Ross, exploring research & development for 360º camera capture and display.
http://landscape360.circlesquareline.com
Landscape 360º is a Interactive Multimedia Installation which encourages cooperation in exploring the unique qualities inherent to video capture with a 360º camera.
The full 360º camera video capture is displayed on two separate projections facing each-other in the room.
One view takes the form of a 2d flattened image, referred to as a baseline, which is similar to a panorama in translating an immersive circular vision into a widescreen flat image. In front of this image is a hourglass shaped controller which allows the user to fast forward or rewind through a 4 minute looping video. Here a user chooses what time sequence of the video to experience.
The other view is a semi circular screen onto which the same baseline video is projected but the full viewing of it is obscured by a black screen mask with only a pinhole of the video exposed on the screen. In front of this screen is a swivel chair. When a user sits down, the chair detects the presence and it broadens the viewing experience to a 45 degree window revealing the video. The user swivels the chair from left to right, which tracks the 45 degree window on the same angle. Swiveling from left to right also triggers specific sounds which overlap the existing background sound track which is heard through 5/1 surround sound. The user may also lean back in the chair which causes the window to broaden to a 90 degree window. Here the chair user explores different possible spacial dimensions of the video by controlling which specific areas or crops they want to focus on.
These two separate stations exist in order to allow for the unique and unexpected experience of cooperation that might emerge if the two users decide to work in tandem.
Visitors to ITP Spring Show 2007
I. Internship Objective
A. Interactivity
B. Capture
C. Display
D. Immersive Art Experience / investigation of 360º Space & Time
II. Project Description
A. 180 degree screen in front of USER 1 (swivel chair)
1. controlled by swivel chair which viewer sits in
a. sitting down initiates black screen becomes 45 degree section of a 180 degree possible view
b. back of chair is zoom video control
c. swivel is pan and sound control
B. 2 dimensional video projection of 360 degree capture behind USER 1 (controlled by USER 2)
1. via hourglass with built-in microcontroller that acts as rewind and fast forward video function (time) (this controls time for both projrctions)
The actual installation will be set up on the 9th floor off
the Tisch building, where it will be using the cyclorama that was built there this semester.
On the ITP Floor there will be a Kiosk Screen with a DVD exhibiting a short 8 minute narrative overview about the internship, its Objectives, Research, Experiments in Production and a reference to the 9th Floor installation with a small poster also directing people to the 9th floor.
Everything
The full 360º camera video capture is displayed on two separate projections facing each-other in the room.
One view takes the form of a 2d flattened image, referred to as a baseline, which is similar to a panorama in translating an immersive circular vision into a widescreen flat image. In front of this image is a hourglass shaped controller which allows the user to fast forward or rewind through a 4 minute looping video. Here a user chooses what time sequence of the video to experience.
The other view is a semi circular screen onto which the same baseline video is projected but the full viewing of it is obscured by a black screen mask with only a pinhole of the video exposed on the screen. In front of this screen is a swivel chair. When a user sits down, the chair detects the presence and it broadens the viewing experience to a 45 degree window revealing the video. The user swivels the chair from left to right, which tracks the 45 degree window on the same angle. Swiveling from left to right also triggers specific sounds which overlap the existing background sound track which is heard through 5/1 surround sound. The user may also lean back in the chair which causes the window to broaden to a 90 degree window. Here the chair user explores different possible spacial dimensions of the video by controlling which specific areas or crops they want to focus on.
These two separate stations exist in order to allow for the unique and unexpected experience of cooperation that might emerge if the two users decide to work in tandem.
Visitors to ITP Spring Show 2007
I. Internship Objective
A. Interactivity
B. Capture
C. Display
D. Immersive Art Experience / investigation of 360º Space & Time
II. Project Description
A. 180 degree screen in front of USER 1 (swivel chair)
1. controlled by swivel chair which viewer sits in
a. sitting down initiates black screen becomes 45 degree section of a 180 degree possible view
b. back of chair is zoom video control
c. swivel is pan and sound control
B. 2 dimensional video projection of 360 degree capture behind USER 1 (controlled by USER 2)
1. via hourglass with built-in microcontroller that acts as rewind and fast forward video function (time) (this controls time for both projrctions)
The actual installation will be set up on the 9th floor off
the Tisch building, where it will be using the cyclorama that was built there this semester.
On the ITP Floor there will be a Kiosk Screen with a DVD exhibiting a short 8 minute narrative overview about the internship, its Objectives, Research, Experiments in Production and a reference to the 9th Floor installation with a small poster also directing people to the 9th floor.
Everything