So, starting the last semester at ITP (this feeling sucks), and getting ready for thesis!
Having said that, here is a project proposal for Telepresence class:
Do you have your loved one away? Are you bored of his business trips? Are you most often sleeping alone in your king size bed?
PillowSolus is your companion in your bed, giving you the real time presence of your partner right next to you! The pillow, which your loved one uses when he/she is away, transmits the owners head position to the pillow next to you, which shapes itself as if your partner is sleeping right next to you! You will see his/her sleeping, waking up, turns in the bed, stress, and maybe even sweat! (Simply, one pillow is transmitting the position of the head, and the other is taking the shape as if it has the head in the same position)
This is the greatest time of the semester; ITP is full of weird projects hanging around, my projects are about to be finished, and all the couches has somebody sleeping on it.. (Robert Moon, is sleeping right next to me, and he has a cellphone on his forehead!?!).
Anyway, I prepared official web pages for the projects:
This is pretty much the last stop on “Eye on You, Tarantino”.
Rob Ryan installed the amazing projector in front of the column, and here is the last prototype of my project. Tomorrow is the day to build the column-hugger. Hands-on woodcutting, with a little bit o’ plexi..
It is amazing to see that EYT is getting ready for the final presentation…
There is very little left to do on the software side, and weekend is getting ready for building the physical controller! (I call it ‘EYT columnHugger’)
A screenshot from the software is below. So what is new? Now three movies are displayed, which the user can switch between. Also, their eye tracking plots are displayed below them for easy comparison! Actually that is the point of all project; to see and experience the difference in eye movements among these movie scenes!.
I installed google analytics to see what people are interested in this blog, and I was amazed to see that there are a lot of people looking for a source code for eye tracking. I can totally understand the suffer and the pain these people are having, appreciate their future contribution to open source community, and here I claim the source code! Drop a comment if you find use it, find it interesting, or ridiculous, whatever…
I will post upcoming codes under this post I hope. Explanations can be found in the files.
here are the two videos from the dress rehearsal for JohnTrain! Everything worked fine, no quicktime problems, no delays… Frame rate is a little low, and we will see what to do with that.
Did you think the columns at ITP works for only supporting the drama department at 5th floor??
Nope, they are also the projection space for Eyes on You, Tarantino!
I made some tests on the columns to see the pattern projection would look like. First idea was to project it from ceiling with a regular angle, which looked so beautiful. However, in this case, user who will be interacting with the controller will be in front of the projection, and his shadow will drop on the wall. So I tried to set the projection right on top of the column, so I projected in a very acute angle. In this case, the focus gets lost on the top, and texts gets smiley-shaped (which I can fixed manually using processing). Gotta work on the focus thing…
