For the launch of Windows Live Wave 2 late last year, Microsoft together with the non-profit organization “Operation Smile” hosted an event in New York with a dazzling art installation featuring a 60-feet wide white sphere. On this sphere, they projected a dynamically-generated visualization of smiling faces with thousands of smaller pictures. The end result if nothing of a sheer visual spectacle. And because everything was rendered in real-time, attendees at the event could even upload their own face pictures into the pool of faces although I’m sure it’ll be one hell of a “Where’s Waldo” to find.
It was put together by creative studio “firstborn” using an open-source visual graphics platform called Processing. Check out their website for more gorgeous screenshots as well as a look at the behind the scenes wizardry.
This sure gives the Times Square NYE Ball a run for its money.
great music and visual effects! impressive
Holy heck.
Impressive. Processing is a really powerfull programming platform, even for designers. We are using it much here at my university.
WoW! This is has more “WoW” factor than the Vista marketing…and the fact that they used Windows to manage this…puts Macs to shame.
How does this relate to Microsoft or Windows Live at all?
But it really is neat art btw.
Cool. This should be Vista’s advertisement. At the end, it should say, The definition of WOW, Microsoft Windows Vista. @ Albert: I agree with your comment.@ quikboy: I do not know what it has to do with Windows or Live but I know Microsoft is participating in Operation smile.
@Long: Great Find. Where did you find it. TELL ME NOW. It’s a matter of life or death.
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Great music indeed ! Does anyone has any idea what is this tune ?
I could see some cool WMP virualizations from some of that animation (even if its only going to be 2d on your screen)
I’d also like to know what music is playing. Does anyone have any idea?
If anyone has a Sony Ericsson with trackID, they could use that to figure out what song is playing.
It’s “Modeselektor feat. Thom Yorke – White Flash”.
MusicID’d on WM device.
Great video btw, Long, and I concur that this video be used as the WOW campaign header.
Thanks a lot GiantBallsOfCheese !
Hmmm…Sure you could download possessing…however Playing with the source for this project in processing would be great!
People got pictures taken from booths all around the sphere…then the images were dynamically fed into the visualization live-WAY COOL!!
And cheers GBC… I wanted that song a lot!
Why they are using Windows XP?
Possible the software/hardware didn’t support Vista at that stage?
@mrmckeb : I think he meant “why are they using Windows”. It’s a good question
Or there afraid the Vista PC’s might crash.
Logical Answer: Maybe Vista was still in Beta at the time
@fiji: This was done in November of 2007, Vista had been out for 10 months then.
Cool marketing company – check out their other stuff…
Who knew about all these?
http://www.firstbornmultimedia.com/
Firstborn is not a Marketing company – they are an interactive design firm.
ld be searching for my foto
@memberjoe: I think they are using XP because processing is kinda wacky on vista (at least for me)