its hitting 9pm – still working. Gordon couldn’t deliver the screens so I have mocked up some ones so when they come tomorrow it won’t take long to install. The open exhibition period came and went pretty quickly. We have the computer running two screens. This is great, as the guy at the mac store told me that this wasn’t possible – the graphics card wouldn’t be able to handle it. The resolution is OK – I still haven’t worked out how this is working with the camera, but anyway, a great progression.
I don’t like the fact that the pixy asks you to be outside of the room to interact with it – or to find its viewing spot. At the same time, I hate the way my computer is sitting in front of the screen – people become so aware of it and then forget about the screen. Tomorrow we will fine tune it again – get the systems outside of the room – so we can still control it – but don’t have everyone looking at it. This will be a good step forward.
For the current version of the Chameleon Project the work demands that you stand infront of the mind reader for it to work – I don’t think this works with Pixy – I am wondering if a small change of narrative can happen. for example – the character stays walking back and forth until you engage with it – and then the face comes clearer – this allows people to walk around the room more. I will ask jeff about it tonight.
I haven’t heard from Rana, Youssef or Abdehlrahmen about the crashes, Jeff Mann who has developed the video engine has said its not on his end. Tomorrow I will test it with the old version of the face reader and see what happens.
Kim from the UCL interaction lab arrived today. I have been trying to gather participants for the evaluation. Today we gathered another three or four. It make take longer. Thank god we didn’t start it yesterday.
Michael Roy seems to have the better luminosity sorted out now. Natacha has been spending the day getting the next pixy display together. This one is going to be hung as a curtain. I was hoping it may have been hung as a curve, but this can’t happen which is ashame. Anyway, the next one should be up tomorrow.
I have asked jeff to make the pixy be driven by the one computer. We need some more computers now – but it takes time to set them up and I sort of need Jeff to do that.
We are using a new camera that seems to respond better to the infra-red – but doesn’t seem to latch onto your face as easy as the other one. The logitech one didn’t work anymore. Michael from fabrica tried pulling out the infra-red sheild – and it didn’t work. strange.
