Japanese pop act, the Helicopter Boyz highlighted the projection feature of the new Nikon COOLPIX in a recent performance.

A new display technology lets users touch and interact with a tactile virtual object.

Obscura Digital’s CueLight Pool Table uses motion tracking software and an overhead projector to layer animation on top of a standard pool table.

In a brilliant work of perspectival illusion, the projection artists at Urbanscreen have transformed O. M. Unger’s Galerie der Gegenwart in Hamburg into a surreal plane of shifting form. The project, inspired by the concept of a “dreaming” building, truly does ascribe a sort of material consciousness to the structure’s facade; giant hands press and pull bricks apart and around, walls collapse and expand, and vivid multicolored forms swirl and merge. The optical effects are fantastic to behold via the video alone; we can only imagine what the experience would be like in person.

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We’ve previously written about projections on buildings, and the technology and application of it seems to be proliferating. This time, NuFormer Digital Media from the Netherlands brings us a video demo of custom made 3D projections made to fit each building.

Projection on Buildings from NuFormer Digital Media on Vimeo.
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Custom Interactive Projections On Buildings

Created by Tetsuro Nagata, “Computing an Identity” is an interactive installation where users interact with reflected visuals of themselves, exploring perception by using projected images, time, lights, and shadows. On one screen, you can see yourself in a “delayed mirror,” and as you step closer to it, the time delay increases, allowing you to see what you were like a few seconds ago.
In a similar way, a second projection allows the viewer to be conscious of their shadow by delaying the projection, and mixing it with those from previous visitors. The video below shows visitors and their “out of body” [...]