The table got an update recently. It has audio now. It has really really loud audio now in a space with a lot of echoes. Since we have to tweak movies individually after we hear them in the space we are going to add a node for volume to the XML describing each movie. We are still working out solutions to deal multiple sound sources being open at once since there is a lot of sound overlap.
The cool part now and why i titled the post Ghost Hand is the hand in the table now ghosts your actual movements. It is no longer a one size fits all mannequin hand. Everyone who walks by seems to think this is “the coolest thing ever”. Its hard to take pictures of the screen but that didn’t stop me.
And the final update is i changed the font to Univers because the hinting seemed better. If you had been trying to read the type before you would notice the difference. I would have liked to use Avenir to match our new identity system but that font doesn’t seem to be hinted very well for rendering on screen, or else it didn’t survive my conversion to True Type intact.
Still a long way to go but this is progress.
i’ll second that coolest thing ever comment. yet, it seems like it could be disorienting. is it?
Comment by jennifer j — March 22, 2005 @ 11:24 pm
It’s not really disorienting although it is not very shadow like. It picks up a bit of gradiation from the infared light and the color is transparent white so it really does feel ghosty. Should help it feel less disorienting than the old more cursorish hand. There is some misalignment with the click area and the hand so everything is disorienting right now.
I don’t know if it is really the coolest ever, thats just what Chad from the mail room said. I will say for sure it is the coolest thing thats ever been on this table.
Comment by eric — March 23, 2005 @ 9:16 am