http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Mar 24th 2010 7:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Mar 24th 2010 7:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Same for me - I found that rather annoying...
Well, if that were to ever go into production I'm sure they'd sort it out.]]>Mar 24th 2010 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Must have?]]>Mar 24th 2010 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Yeah, what's up with nerdy researches not paying attention to aesthetic details. Get your priorities straight, guys.]]>Mar 24th 2010 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Mar 24th 2010 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/that just shows you they are still learning but its a minor flaw compared to the amazing screen they put together]]>Mar 24th 2010 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/It's fun to be a Norwegian when I see this kind of stuff ^^

Tromsø ftw! (Yes, I do know how pronounce that.)]]>Mar 25th 2010 1:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Mar 24th 2010 7:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Okay, I still don't know how to say that.]]>Mar 24th 2010 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Mar 24th 2010 7:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Mar 24th 2010 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Its about the principle and idea - and an image is one of the best presentation methods.

Especially a Gigapixel image - its easy to show how you can control it.

On a side note - the performance is impressive considering how immediate and smooth movements are.]]>Mar 24th 2010 8:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/And one thing they really should have done is correct the vast brightness differences between multiple beamers - ideally with a camera-based real-time correction.

@DetlevCM - considering that it runs on a cluster of 30 computers, each likely equipped with multiple cores & high-end graphic cards, anything but buttersmooth interaction would be rather disappointing really.]]>Mar 24th 2010 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Mar 24th 2010 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/
Agreed.

Considering that the graphics hardware and CPU means pretty much nothing without a high throughput interconnect. So yes, it is amazing that a cluster that large is so smooth.]]>Mar 24th 2010 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/I must agree with you.

Basically they took the most basic idea of multitouch (pinch-to-zoom), and presented it on a million projectors hooked up to a million cameras rendered by a million computers.

Yes, it's impressive, but nothing new.]]>Mar 24th 2010 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Mar 24th 2010 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Mar 24th 2010 7:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/I fear it would be dangerously balancing between the realms of pornography and gynecology. ]]>Mar 24th 2010 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Mar 24th 2010 7:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/
GIMMIE GIMMIE GIMMIE]]>Mar 24th 2010 7:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/
Could you imagine bringing that out on a first day, lol.]]>Mar 24th 2010 7:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/
I'm a failure meant to say date!]]>Mar 24th 2010 7:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Mar 24th 2010 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Mar 24th 2010 8:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Mar 24th 2010 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Mar 24th 2010 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/
Tickling?

I can't readily think of any other. Even in Minority Report, I believe it was essentially used as a glorified drag and zoom function, then shrink and set aside. At most, it moved some panels from area to area, to organize. But maybe doing something like a CAD or 3D Model with multitouch would be interesting. I can't see Photoshop benefiting... unless distance is used as pressure sensitivity or something. Anyway... any more ideas, and I will want to be paid. ;)]]>Mar 24th 2010 8:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Well, I suppose DJing would be one ;)
(Lemur - know this from a friend)

But try to demonstrate that to the "average crowd" - an image is easier to present.]]>Mar 24th 2010 8:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Mar 24th 2010 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/
It isn't overkill, when you have to stand ~1m away from it you are going to notice pixels if it's not high res.]]>Mar 24th 2010 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/
I guess they've done their best to line them all up, it's just a shame there's so much difference between different 'squares' in brightness and contrast - but then again this was probably a lot cheaper. Very cool project. I'd love to build a smaller 2 x 2 array to view RED footage at 4K.]]>Mar 24th 2010 8:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Mar 24th 2010 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Mar 24th 2010 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Mar 24th 2010 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/
]]>Mar 24th 2010 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/I think they went for a budget solution to achieve sheer size. ]]>Mar 24th 2010 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://gigapix.no/]]>Mar 24th 2010 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Mar 24th 2010 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Mar 24th 2010 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Mar 24th 2010 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Actually, I disagree with the emphasis of the article. It seems to me that the big deal is the system that uses data from the cameras to interpret the user's hand gestures. That seems to distinguish it from multitouch projection systems that track finger touches and from systems that use gloves with sensors. But I may be mistaken.]]>Mar 24th 2010 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/
You're right of course. 1024X768 projectors may have been a budgetory restraint and had nothing to do with the tech they were designing. Now scale this up and show these multi-gigapixels in all their glory!]]>Mar 24th 2010 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/
You're right of course. 1024X768 projectors may have been a budgetary restraint and had nothing to do with the tech they were designing. Now scale this up and show these multi-gigapixels in all their glory!]]>Mar 24th 2010 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/Mar 24th 2010 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/
http://www.perceptivepixel.com/]]>Mar 24th 2010 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/
Ok, I'll admit, that is the sexiest display I have ever seen. But what kind of supercomputer server has to be powering that thing?]]>Mar 24th 2010 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/I don't really know! I have even sent them an email without getting an answer..
But it doesn't need to be that complicated. the more simple it is the better (but simplier) as Einstein said
here are some other things more simpler and more efficient than what's in this post or other tablets...

http://embed.break.com/Njg0MjEz (sorry for the add @ the beginning) with a simple portable camera and projector

and with a simple Wii remote control!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0awjPUkBXOU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g_KqdWktrY

doesn't need necessarily a super computer :) and that's what I love about it! just imagine]]>Mar 24th 2010 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/tromso-students-put-together-the-best-interactive-display-wall-w/]]>Mar 24th 2010 11:08AM