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The Thing Growing at MediARTech 99 ::- Florence, May 99

At the MediArtech Festival we showed the Thing Growing on Barco's Baron display device. Which is more usually used for sand-box VR - the screen is flat and you look down into it.
When the screen is tilted at an angle, the Barco resembles an I-Desk a little more, however it is very low to the ground.

The organisers helped us around that problem by providing a pedestal for it, so that it was at a height that would work for this application.
The Baron doesn't come with a tracking system, so we brought our own Space-Pad. Here I am very proudly displaying the SpacePad Antenna, which we carried folded and which I then stuck onto this board.
This was the first show at which the Thing operated completely autonomously.

Of course more lessons were learned!

  • Language - this application is very dependent on the user speaking English. If we want to seriously show to audiences for whom English is not a first language we need to translate it.
  • User Shyness - in Italy people were even more reluctant to dance. We would like to show the Thing in an environment where the user can be secluded and one-on one with the Thing, without onlookers to provoke embarrassment.