Dance Like Kinect Is Watching: The Interactive LED Amphitheater

‘ Tis the season for outdoor music festivals — which , traditionally , means days of sliding over mud - slip field in galoshes . But in Lyon , a grouping of designer and engineers daydream up an alternative : a Kinect - power interactional amphitheatre that diversify light based on the footsteps of attendees .

The Pyramids of Egypt was custom - work up forNuits Sonores , an yearly EDM festival that include performances by Dan Deacon and Nosaj Thing . Housed chiefly inside of a elephantine storage warehouse in Lyon , the festival also included an outside leg . So organizers tap London interactive studioIs This Good?and Lyon architectsLooking For Architectureto make an installation where concert - goers could trip the light fantastic toe facing performers .

Their five - grade organization is made from semi - pellucid charge card embed with LEDs . These are controlled via an OpenFrameworks playscript , which draw information about the location of attendees from six nearby Kinects . When a person moves or pass over onto one of the program , the lights plow on and change in loudness as their movement are cut through — meanwhile , a Processing - based program thrust procreative , active animations to five hanging screen behind the platforms . It ’s lovely , in a futurist , Saturday Night Fever variety of way . mark off out the full video below . [ Creative Applications ]