October 19, 2007

Wicked-cool Wii+Flash-powered hologram-thing

The crew at BLITZ Agency created an amazing interactive video installation for Adobe MAX, using non-traditional input devices to let people paint collaboratively.  As they describe it on their blog:

"Adobe Creativity Conducted" Interactive Wall Experience features a holographic-like projection system on which you can paint images and designs using a Nintendo Wii remote control. This full screen Flash application runs in HD resolution, and was premiered during the primary Adobe party of the MAX 07 Conference in Chicago. The experience ran uninterrupted for the duration of the party (4 hours), and received nonstop foot traffic resulting in 68 artistic creations submitted as images to a Flickr account.

Chek out the video of the system in action, and see some of the creations on Flickr.

I can't tell you how much stuff like this trips my trigger.  I love the way the project makes drawing and painting a full-body 3D experience, and I love the way the SWF interface synthesizes great-looking art playfully.  One question, though: Why can't I do anything like this in Photoshop or Illustrator?  What if we could crack open these apps and let people leverage the power of the Flash?  Hmm...  Erik Natzke has an idea of what that might look like (totally fake, unfortunately, at least for now).

Trying, as ever, to cross the streams,
J.

Posted by John Nack at 5:58 PM on October 19, 2007

Comments

Scott Valentine — 8:03 PM on October 19, 2007 Reply to this comment

Oh my, yes! That is incredible. Gives one ideas, you know?

I'd love to see something like this used as a presentation tool, or mass performance art (like handing out a few dozen controllers to an audience and have them switch on and off randomly so nobody knows who is doing what or when). Couple that with some time-coded music samples and you've got a rave where everybody makes it happen.

debbie — 12:47 PM on April 2, 2008 Reply to this comment

May I know how to install flash on Wii?

thanks!

monique — 1:41 AM on May 9, 2008 Reply to this comment

indeed how do i installed it on the Wii?

[This project runs on a desktop computer, not on a Wii (which just supplies the controller). I believe it's possible to run Flash on a Wii, but I don't know the details. --J.]

Johnny Ray Corkill — 11:26 PM on June 30, 2009 Reply to this comment

iv'e been tryiing to find someoone who knows about adobe flash and nintendo dsi's do you know if adobe flash can be downloaded to the new nintendo DSI for use in seeing online video any suggestion would be greatly appreciated thanks jrc

Antonio Cici — 10:29 PM on July 9, 2009 Reply to this comment

No man, sorry to say, but I`ve tryed a million times to download Adobe flash and Adobe stuff on my DSi, but it just dosent work because the DSi`s central memory system isnt good enough to compute all of the audio and video stuff. Im ticked too...

secretssilent[a.k.a Lincee][lin-sey is how you say it] — 8:37 AM on November 1, 2009 Reply to this comment

hey man itsme secretssilent i love your website i think its the best[by the way i am a girl] i've been triying to get Adobe flash player on my DSi but it doesn't work. i am 9 years old and i know all that tech stuff,but not this time,ya know what i mean. -peace-secretssilent[my real name is Lincee but my penname is secretssilent]

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