Playing with the Live Camera
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Discotrope Live Camera Test, August 2011
Above is a short video of Annina “dancing in the dark” to the Discotrope live camera.
Since we want attendees at Discotrope dance party events to sometimes dance along with the cinema and YouTube dance stars on the Discotrope, we’re using a Kinect as our live camera. The Kinect works with infrared light, and so is handy for night time events that feature projections. The person dancing in front of the Kinect shows up on the Discotrope projection as a silhouette. The color of the silhouette and its background change depending on the choices of the Discotrope performer. The performer also selects cinema and YouTube clips that are intermingled with the live cam footage. While the live cam sequences are quite colorful, most of the Discotrope show is not quite so psychedelic…
As you can see from the video, we had a good time at our Discotrope Dance-off Demo! In our tests we also found that even if, like us, the dancer is not quite Baryshnikov, Discotrope seems to let their inner grace and funkiness shine through. So we are quite excited about sharing this Discotrope feature with a live audience soon! In the meantime we’re posting this psychedelic psneak preview psnippet.
