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A back yard somewhere in Berlin-Friedrichshain, plentyful of patina and paging finery. An airy loft with much metal, self-willed and not yet finished. The company headquarter of twosuns media development fulfills all criteria of the often sworn backyard plate with creativity potential. The term multimedia involves an uncertain promise, an announcement of possibilities still far from being kept. Twosuns, a group of people from all professions in the fields of design, art, science, and informatics, at all levels of cooperation and in all forms of expression followed the path of networking, interactivity, research into the structures of consciousness and the creation of new fields of meaning. One milestone is achieved, the idea changed to a product. A new form of presentation makes multimedial contents independent from the computer screen and makes information intuitively accessible. The space itself becomes the multimedial projection surface, which reacts to the bare presence and the interests of the visitors. Enclued realtime environment processing created by twosuns makes it now possible to design, create, handle and experience real world interactive environments. A realroom setting changes to a multimedia projection surface. The concept, that enclued follows, distinguishes itself however consciously from what one understands by a CAVE (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment). For the developers it is particularly important that the users while interacting are not restricted in their movement by 3D-eyeglasses, data gloves or other cyberspace utensils. They shall move completely unaffected as in a museum or an exhibition and also be able to communicate with another or with several other users. Informal going around and staying at certain points is the central base for the interaction of the visitors with the system. It registers the movements of each particular visitor and responds like this to his interests. If someone approaches a picture, a video, a light or a sound, the system intensifies for example the representation, starts tone documents and offers further information details. Thus the visitor navigates almost casually and without detour over a mouse control through the information structures. An unusual interface between man and machine. The principle of mouse and links for the real space. Also new is the fact that the reactions of the room are not static. Depending on the frequency and the period spent with certain topics the system modifies the interaction structure and offers direct access to these areas. The system is based on standard Pentium II computers with WinNT. It gives the author of an environment the interface and tools to organize digital media - like video and graphics, digital multichannel sound and any DMX controllable light-(effect) device - and makes it appear and change inside a real world space. The visitor doesn't need to use or wear any oequipment other than a badge as small as a matchbox with a few infrared LEDs, attached to his shoulder, baseball cap etc. A motion tracking system - cartasia - can identify and track the 3D-position of the badge in up to 256 visitors. The movement through invisible sensory fields will make sounds appear and move over 16 or 32 speakers. Videos, graphics and colours can fade in or out. Lights continue to change the atmosphere of the space. The database behind the system memorises the interest of the user indicated by his movement and will through an attribution system be able to react in a more presonalized or lets say intelligent way on people. To get more information and a GUI-animation of the enclued-editor visit twosuns at www.twosuns.com (English and German Language). You also can come to Berlin to see all the features of the enclued tool - live in their new presentation studio.
Living rooms not only for storytellers.
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