Lots of exciting and interesting stuff coming from Google at the moment such as ‘Google +‘ and I do like the google ‘what do you love‘ feature.
Archive for the ‘interactive’ Category
L.A. NOIRE
Sunday, June 5th, 2011If I still played computer games this would consume my life, it looks amazing!
Live Radar by Paul Barton
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
‘Live Radar‘ is a new site by Paul Barton which allows users to enter in their location and view all the nearest music gigs happening around them ordered by date. The site uses feeds from myspace and Last FM and provides a really useful service to people who are looking for a good night and want to get a list of their options very quickly. The site also allows you to search for a particular band or venue for people who have something a little more specific in mind. Paul asked me to put together the look and feel of the site and has had very good response from the final design.
Nice interactive window display from Hyper Island
Monday, January 17th, 2011
Interactive Display Window Concept from Gustaf Engström on Vimeo.
Always lots of very exciting stuff happening at Hyper Island. This was made by The Interactive Art Director students at Hyper Island and hosted by North Kingdom.
Acoustic augmented reality – the Inception ‘Dream App’
Saturday, January 15th, 2011
Over Christmas a friend of mine Lena Bheeroo (analogueworld) recommended the Inception app as she thought I may like it. She was bloody right. The app has been made to tie in very well with the release of the Inception movie but unlike the usual movie apps this one uses some pretty impressive technology to facilitate some equally impressive concepts based on dreaming.
For example its probably safe to say that a lot if not all of the content of a persons dreams are some kind reflection of what has happened to them in the real world. The inception app has taken this idea and ran with it. In the app you can activate ‘dream states’ which takes tracks from the movies soundtrack and uses sounds, movement and even GPS to influence and distort the tracks. So in effect your actions, movements and sounds in real life influence the music you are listening too through your headphones.
I instantly loved this app and I’m so glad that a movie like Inception has given somone a reason to make something like this or maybe more importantly – given me a reason to use it. When you activate different dream states the app also takes a GPS snapshot from google maps and places it into a mosaic of your other dream GPS shots allowing you to build a kind of dream tapestry. On it’s own I think this is a wonderful idea but it also ties in beautifully with the dream-map building concept in the movie.
As I was home in Wales for Christmas I climbed to the top of Tan-y-Gopa hill, sat in the sun and switched the app on whilst reading Sven Berlin. It was a realy lovely moment were all the sounds of the forest around me were incorperated in an abient soundtrack whilst reading the end a beautiful book. I also did the same whilst stood on top of the highest tower in Gwrych Castle.
Here’s an intersting article about the app www.wired.co.uk and heres where to buy it: itunes.
Musical stairs, brilliant idea!
Friday, October 16th, 2009A fun musical interactive experiment to try and get people to use the stairs more often.
“Because clicking is so 90′s!”
Friday, October 16th, 2009
Aside from being an absolutely gorgeous site design Andreas Lutz’s website is also impressive because the user can interact with it through voice and gestures. Using your webcam you can use hand movements to navigate through his portfolio of music, site design and games. You can also use voice activation to navigate from one section to another for example by saying “music” you can be taken to the music section. This site is just really impressive, check it out!
