The Kinect: XBox + Colorbox = Trance4mation
Posted by gabemott in technology on 21. Mar, 2011 | 1 Comment
Last year’s technology was the wii infrared remote. This year, The Color Box will use Microsoft’s new technology for the XBox to make the experience interactive. Microsoft was not happy that their brilliant gaming device had been hacked, meaning for one it could run on the Mac, but they are coming around. The Kinect has [...]
Next button
Posted by gabemott in technology on 17. Feb, 2010 | 2 Comments
I need help from a coder- or someone really clever who understands technology. I have some sample content up for a color box: To go the next screen, the user mouses over the image in the upper left. It would be much coolier if there was a big red button in the corner of the [...]
A little help from my friends
Posted by gabemott in technology, thank you, video on 14. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
Gina Bracco and Dana Wettlaufer- thank you for the huge help in sewing 54 yard of velcro to the 40 foot screen. Thank you for new contributions. I’ve been meaning to post this video in which the geek team declared four projections a must, made the controls move around in 3d space, and figured out [...]
Huge Step up
Posted by gabemott in technology, thank you on 14. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
Two weeks ago I put up last year’s color box at reSOURCE– and within a day, the wind had torn it down. Thank God. Because that’s what it took for me to take the advice that Ben and Marvyn apparently gave me last year. Make the box out of metal piping– EMT to be exact. [...]
Content 2010: Complementary Colors
Posted by gabemott in content, education, technology on 09. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
This post will address both the controllers and one of the new content pieces. Right now, as posted before, the controller is a stuffed Lion. Little guy- whose third eye is an LED infrared light. He is always on. For the box, I’d like to have 6 controllers– 6 little stuffed animals– that only are [...]
