glovePIE

Glove Programmable Input Emulator 

Super cool application.   I've been meaning to download and try out glovePIE for a long time.   I did pick up a $15 Essential Reality P5 Glove from Wall Mart when they dumped them a few years ago. However it's the Wii Remote support that has been driving the interest in glovePIE lately, and it drove my interest as well.

My use of the Wii remote on my PC is still pretty flaky, probably due to Bluetooth being generally flaky transport :(

But I'm very impressed with the feature set of GlovePIE, in fact it almost matches a tool concept that I worked on many years ago at the end of my real interest in VR.  That concept being scriptable IO routing hub.

I've used PD, and PERL scripts to achieve this, and certainly PD fits the bill pretty well, but GlovePIE with support for MIDI, OSC, and numerous game controlers seems to do most of what I'm looking for and more. And has a different mindset than PD; it's really foucused on routing input.
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I'm expect everyone is familiar with the Johnny Lee Wii projects.

And most have probably also seen the Foldable Display Simulation video.

However if anyone has not seen them yet, follow the links they are worth seeing.  In fact it's been on my to do list to try and do some object tracking / projection tracking for some time.   And the foldable display video shows it working surprisingly well, and projecting on some of the surfaces that we have found most fun and interesting in our theatrical work (Fans and Umbrellas).

Anyway the upshot is that I got myself a wii remote and am starting to play around.   I'm working with Kate Brehm on a show (do you copy) with a lot of hand held movable screens that it would be great to track in this way.

I'm also interested in using the tracking in conjunction with some tablet PC's that I have used on stage as movable screens.
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International Culture Lab
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Translating the Story

International Culture Lab’s production of Outside Inn had
traveled through many incarnations to its Off-Broadway premiere. The
University of Pittsburgh, ICL and Theater Rampe Stuttgart originally
commissioned playwright Andreas Jungwirth to create a text to serve as
a vehicle to explore cultural difference among the collaborators and
their respective countries. From its conception, the project called for
four bilingual actors to perform the play in both languages on both
continents. Outside Inn rehearsed and previewed at the
University of Pittsburgh in September 2007, where it played two German
and three English language performances. It then traveled to Stuttgart,
Germany, where it played at Theater Rampe Stuttgart in the month of
October 2007, including five performances in English and one impromptu
mixed-language performance. This mixed-language version was further
rehearsed and then returned to Stuttgart July 1-5, 2008, as part of the
first annual American Days, sponsored by the German-American Center
there “to further improve and intensify the transatlantic dialog.” 
Throughout the project, language evolved into a dominant creative
element that drove and shaped character development, rhythm and tone,
and actor/audience relationship.

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ITP Winter Show 2008

Dec 17, 18 2008 5-9PM
ITP
721 Broadway, 4th Floor

A two-day festival of interactive sight, sound and technology from the student artists and innovators at ITP.

220 student - technologists, theorists,
engineers, designers, and artists show off the fuits of thier labor and thier technological visions.

Bound to be fun, confusing, see you there.

If you've got some spare bandwith and plenty of memory for your browser click on the postcard to the left.

 the most interesitng part is the color shape effects in the white area as you scale the image down, at certain scale you see the averaged shape of a portrate apear quite strongly.

David Gordon / Pick Up Performance Company
Trying Times
Dec 11- 13, 16 – 20 7:30PM
$26
Post-Show Talk Dec 17 with Micki Wesson

 http://www.pickupperformance.org/

David Gordon offers up this
updated version of what has been called his "anti-signature" piece. Set
to Igor Stravinsky’s Apollo, one of George Balanchine’s signature
ballets, the production, features a new Gordon script based on the 1982
production, with some of the original collaborators and some new faces.  The piece uses video from the orignal production as well.