Right now, I'm working on an industrial meeting where the screen is 16' x 100', 4799 x 768 pixel resolution, using WATCHOUT (www.dataton.com) and off-the-shelf Christie projectors... The screen size, as noted elsewhere can be arbitrarily wide/high.
The May 1984 issue of Analog carried a story (" Valentina") that dealt with this. The computer in question filed papers for incorporation, and was recognized as a separate legal entity....
This is the ***exact same*** idea that was developed by VideOcart in Chicago in 1989... Information Resources head John Mallec dumped a ton of his own money into it, and later IBM dumped a load into it... do a google by "videocart chicago" and see what you get... http://www.drtomorrow.com/lessons/lessons9/07.html
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Engineers spontaneously generate... like mice from dirty shirts, artists, and lawyers...
They are compulsively curious people whose use their intelligence to try to mold the physical world for their own, and others, benefit. They will use the tools they feel that fit the job best, even if they have to invent their own... like gcc...
When I was in Eng-gin-eer school, (VietNam era,) I was told, that if I was still screwing with wires after ten years after school, and not in management, I'd have missed the boat....
After thirty years, I'm still hired primarily to screw with wires, and I manage people just for shits and grins to buy better toys and test systems... G. Harry Stine's "Benders of Tin" are a self-appointed meritocracy. This author's point of view presupposes a university academic-credentialed mindset.
Edison invented himself... as did Farnsworth in my industry..
Back in the mid-seventies, at the height of emulsion-based technology, I did a bunch of forensic photography, still, motion, and high-speed.
Even then, after a hundred and thirty years of use, photographic evidence was not easily admitted. The other side would fight tooth-and-nail and quiz you on the stand about lens lengths and perspective distortion in an attempt to bore the jury to death and discount the evidence by reason of overwhelming, fallible complexity.
Try explaining file-creation date tags at the byte level to your local Kwik-E-Mart clerk.
In the end, Photo evidence was more useful in getting a perpetrator to confess and cop a plea than in impressing a jury.
System logs will probably do more to convince a bad guy to take the easy way out and spill his guts than enlighten twelve people who couldn't figure out a way to get out of jury duty.
All good examples. But take away stuff that requires a CPU and a CRT to run, and what do you have?
The people who mentioned Blue Man Group and Nam June Paik were the closest to the target for my entries.
Thirty-seven years ago, the 1964 new York World's Fair introduced the general population to a new experience, (at that time) called Multimedia.
The IBM exhibit, the GE Carousel of Progress, The Johnson Wax exhibit and (gag) "It's a Small World", among others, used innovative mixes of soung, multiple screen projection, automated lighting to attract and entertain audiences in ways that were highly innovative back then. (Hint: many of these exhibits resurfaced when Walley World opened in 1971 in Orlando.)
Within three years, "MultiMedia" producers were hawking the original (and quite literal) dog-and-pony shows to corporate clients to spice up what were, until then, deathly dull corporate and trade industry meetings.
The industry is still alive today, although the experience now usually involves pre-edited video elements and lacks the gonzo carnival atmosphere these shows had back in the seventies and early eighties.
Take something like the Residents CDROM and turn it into a live stage performance, or better yet, a live 3d immersive experience, and you'll get a hint of what this world was like.
Take every element everyone has mentioned in this thread, wad it up, package it, and you'd have only a portion of the material that would go into these "MultiMedia" shows.
It was Renaissance artistic patronage resurrected as corporate communication.
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VideOcart was part of Information Resources and tried this in 1989... burned through cash and went nowhere.
Every year or two I see postings about somebody trying the same thing....
Right now, I'm working on an industrial meeting where the screen is 16' x 100', 4799 x 768 pixel resolution, using WATCHOUT (www.dataton.com) and off-the-shelf Christie projectors... The screen size, as noted elsewhere can be arbitrarily wide/high.
The May 1984 issue of Analog carried a story (" Valentina") that dealt with this. The computer in question filed papers for incorporation, and was recognized as a separate legal entity....
This is the ***exact same*** idea that was developed by VideOcart in Chicago in 1989... Information Resources head John Mallec dumped a ton of his own money into it, and later IBM dumped a load into it... do a google by "videocart chicago" and see what you get... http://www.drtomorrow.com/lessons/lessons9/07.html
Engineers spontaneously generate... like mice from dirty shirts, artists, and lawyers...
They are compulsively curious people whose use their intelligence to try to mold the physical world for their own, and others, benefit. They will use the tools they feel that fit the job best, even if they have to invent their own... like gcc...
When I was in Eng-gin-eer school, (VietNam era,) I was told, that if I was still screwing with wires after ten years after school, and not in management, I'd have missed the boat....
After thirty years, I'm still hired primarily to screw with wires, and I manage people just for shits and grins to buy better toys and test systems... G. Harry Stine's "Benders of Tin" are a self-appointed meritocracy. This author's point of view presupposes a university academic-credentialed mindset.
Edison invented himself... as did Farnsworth in my industry..
Even then, after a hundred and thirty years of use, photographic evidence was not easily admitted. The other side would fight tooth-and-nail and quiz you on the stand about lens lengths and perspective distortion in an attempt to bore the jury to death and discount the evidence by reason of overwhelming, fallible complexity.
Try explaining file-creation date tags at the byte level to your local Kwik-E-Mart clerk.
In the end, Photo evidence was more useful in getting a perpetrator to confess and cop a plea than in impressing a jury.
System logs will probably do more to convince a bad guy to take the easy way out and spill his guts than enlighten twelve people who couldn't figure out a way to get out of jury duty.
All good examples. But take away stuff that requires a CPU and a CRT to run, and what do you have?
The people who mentioned Blue Man Group and Nam June Paik were the closest to the target for my entries.
Thirty-seven years ago, the 1964 new York World's Fair introduced the general population to a new experience, (at that time) called Multimedia.
The IBM exhibit, the GE Carousel of Progress, The Johnson Wax exhibit and (gag) "It's a Small World", among others, used innovative mixes of soung, multiple screen projection, automated lighting to attract and entertain audiences in ways that were highly innovative back then. (Hint: many of these exhibits resurfaced when Walley World opened in 1971 in Orlando.)
Within three years, "MultiMedia" producers were hawking the original (and quite literal) dog-and-pony shows to corporate clients to spice up what were, until then, deathly dull corporate and trade industry meetings.
The industry is still alive today, although the experience now usually involves pre-edited video elements and lacks the gonzo carnival atmosphere these shows had back in the seventies and early eighties.
Take something like the Residents CDROM and turn it into a live stage performance, or better yet, a live 3d immersive experience, and you'll get a hint of what this world was like.
Take every element everyone has mentioned in this thread, wad it up, package it, and you'd have only a portion of the material that would go into these "MultiMedia" shows.
It was Renaissance artistic patronage resurrected as corporate communication.