There was a time when I loved Flash. It was a darling. It made my life easy. It did things easily that I could only ever dream of. It wowed my boss, made my clients gasp and made me look like a hero.
But over the last couple of years my love affair has diminished.
In the hands of a skilled and creative programmer, Flash can again, amaze us. In this video, Mrinal Wadhwa shows how a bitmap can be “read” by a webcam and interpreted as a 3D object by Flash.
Now, imagine how this can transform our perception, use and behaviour. Think about the way that we live our lives in public – and our fascination with technology. Consider the products that we love and that make our accelerated lives more manageable – and then think about how virtual transformation like this could be applied to your offerings – to your digital products and services.
For me, this sort of work taps into our imagination – reminds me of what it is to be astounded (nb: it is the future of your brand). Something that is all too easily forgotten in a spoon-fed, digital world. Long live creativity in all its forms.
Via Craig Cmehill.
Mini did an ad earlier in the year like this. you can still download the paper and the app to make it run. http://thefutureofads.com/2008/12/11/mini-ad-uses-3d-cabrio-model-from-the-future/
great tech.
Perhaps a spin-off of Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry’s “Sixth Sense” apparatus?
http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com/2009/03/blog-post.html
You should check out http://www.livingsasquatch.com that Jack Link’s Beef Jerky have put up. Brilliant fun using the same concept expect you can chose what the 3D object, Sasquatch in this case, does when he appears on the screen!