Where’s my Holodeck? The latest interactive movie news
June 8, 2011
Dennis Del Favero is director of “the world’s first 3D interactive film,” Scenario, in which audience members’ movements around the cinema are tracked using 16 near-infrared cameras.
Unsound debuted in Austin, Texas earlier this year. In this horror film, the visuals, music score, and sound effects change depending on the heart rate and skin response of its collective audience members.
Marc Cavazza at Teesside University, UK, has created a computer system that detects the emotional content of speech, allowing for a “conversation” with a virtual character from Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary.
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by dcwilson303
I was at SXSW when they premiered Unsound and was lucky enough to make the 10am show(not as easy as it sounds). Fascinating use of simple sensors. Their dream was to some day have mobile devices with EKG’s and galvanic skin response sensors in the hands of every audience member, all sending data over wireless.
I also noticed there was no baseline of the subject/participants being gathered before the test. When I asked them about this they told me that the baseline algorithm was being supplied via a prerecorded scenario and then blended in. Not sure how I feel about that but, felt it was worth mentioning.
All in all exciting stuff, can’t wait to see more transmedia like storytelling come about.