Field Trip (week 3)



 As part of an educational field trip we were taken to the Art and Science Museum, Future World exhibit. The experience was very fascinating and "insta" worthy. What I've learnt from the exhibit is that, they used Xbox Kinect sensors and projection mapping to create interactive design elements. The exhibit almost entirely focused on using Kinect sensors and projection mapping for all of their displayed items.

It's interesting to see how they achieved this using a simple user-friendly digital technology such as Kinect. It sparked some interest in me to try it out for myself in the future research.


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