Crazy Hour Dancing with WearComps

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Crazy HourDancing with WearComps

• How to create a movie from a dancers
  perspective. Some people are apparently very
  interested in this possibility.

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Introduction

• Goal
• Making a movie (fixed or interactive) from a
  dancers perspective, capturing what is seen and
  heard on the scene. Real-time shows would also be
  an option.
• Why?
• Because a friend of mine doing yoga/meditation
  and dance stuff became interested in the
  possibility when I talked with her about all this
  some week ago.
• Prerequisites
• Lightweight camera and microphone on dancers
  body.
• Video and audio captured somehow, to WC or
  wirelessly.
• A really durable wearable computer!

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Fun and weird things to do

• Video
• Seen from the dancers perspective. What if we
  exchange images between two dancers? (Camera1
  goes to HMD2 and vice versa.)
• Audio
• You hear the dancer breathing in and out. So, add
  some reverb to that and you get a nice symphony
  orchestra. (No Im not kidding.)
• Details
• If camera is tightly coupled to the dancers
  head, even heartbeats may be recognizeable.
• Would it be worth watching? I guess so.

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Research issues and usefulness

• Research
• How much stress can a wearable computer take
  before breaking down?
• Light-weight design of wearable computers, making
  them physically transparent to the user.
• Fitting a camera into a contact lense. (Ok, this
  may take some time to realize though...)
• Usefulness
• New media, new entertainment forms. Its fun.
• Comments?!