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Microsoft Project Natal: Must have consequences for Presentations
Posted by Steve Wylie in Live vision systems on June 5, 2009
Microsoft has released information about it’s new XBox games platform, dubbed Project Natal. The system uses a 3D camera to allow participants to interact with games without requiring a controller – it detects the people in the room and translates their real movements to commands in a game.
We’ve already seen the guys at pptPlex working on using much the same 3D camera technology to control PowerPoint – and I’m sure that it’s just a matter of time before great things happen in this space – I could imagine some really neat interaction with a system like Dataton Watchout. We’ll see…
More information about the Project Natal platform on the XBox website.
Edge blending with single chip DLP projectors
Posted by Steve Wylie in Live vision systems on January 19, 2009
I recently visited the Australian War Memorial in Canberra and watched two presentations which looked to be Watchout or Wings content across three projectors each.
Australian War Memorial Projection Exhibit
The projectiondesign single chip DLP’s have a setting called ‘Color Boost’, which is designed to push the gamma curve settings to get the punchiest image from the projector – but at the cost of accurate colour and gradient representation.
This seriously affects an edge blend, as the gradient between projectors appears ‘stepped’ rather than smooth:
Smooth Blend
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In my experience, when using a single chip DLP projector for edge blends, any colour boost or image/level management features should be disabled so the image appears ‘natural’ – even if this costs light output.
On the projectiondesign F30 units, I have found that setting the ‘Color Boost’ feature to ‘3’ will give an adequate balance between accuracy and intensity.