http://www.mediasandbox.co.uk Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:01:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/1406486[/vimeo] An attempt to build a responsive screen, that reacts to the viewer's position to create the illusion of depth. http://www.mediasandbox.co.uk/2008/07/27/the-magic-mirror/ Simon Evans and Simon Johnson took Comfort of Strangers, a street game using wifi and handheld devices developed as part of Media Sandbox, to Come out and Play Festival in New York City this month. Read their blog of the visit here, or watch the film: [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/1204230?pg=embed&sec=1204230[/vimeo] http://www.mediasandbox.co.uk/2008/06/22/comfort-of-strangers-in-nyc/ [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/1204230[/vimeo] http://www.mediasandbox.co.uk/2008/06/22/video-of-comfort-in-union-square/ Media Sandbox projects' progress As ever, you can read each project’s journal on the Media Sandbox website, but here’s a round up of their progress over the last month. Three months into the Media Sandbox scheme and the projects are really taking shape: a solid and supportive project community has sprung up ... http://www.mediasandbox.co.uk/2008/05/15/march-media-sandbox-newsletter/ Media Sandbox 2008 wrapped up on Tuesday 6 May, bringing the fruits of the projects' labour over the last six months to an audience including funders, press, academics and creative and technology industry professionals. With the projects' prototypes on show, it was clear that products and opportunities are far-ranging in the ... http://www.mediasandbox.co.uk/2008/05/15/media-sandbox-final-showcase/  We're putting the finishing touches to Comfort of Strangers before it's outing at Come Out & Play festival in New York in early June. Ok, we're ironing out the bugs that made the game frustrating to play at the Media Sandbox Showcase. There is some urgency here as the game ... http://www.mediasandbox.co.uk/2008/05/14/new-york-new-york/ The Media Sandbox Final Showcase event was a great opportunity for us to trial the game with the numbers of people for which it was intended but the scale threw up some issues. Some of these were pretty straightforward and to do with device management – keeping 40 devices charged, ... http://www.mediasandbox.co.uk/2008/05/12/final-showcase-but-a-new-beginning/ It's been hard-core few months, as you might tell from the other blog posts and mediasandbox...a lot of fun, inspiring, challenging, and more than anything this project has opened hundreds of doors for everyone involved. A realisation dawned this week that we really are operating at the forefront of the ... http://www.mediasandbox.co.uk/2008/05/12/happy-packages-lives-on/ Exhibiting at a showcase event means don't get to see a lot of what other people are doing. (Could the other teams run the event again so I can wander round, please?) We finally settled on Instant Graffiti as the demonstration of PTTP. Instant Graffiti allows the ... http://www.mediasandbox.co.uk/2008/05/07/just-the-beginning/ That's an exaggeration. Not a complete change, but we've had some impassible issues with memory regarding shuffling around 2000 HD images. So, we've had to take a compromise in the final visual quality, and rethink the way we're going to be building and displaying the ... http://www.mediasandbox.co.uk/2008/05/01/last-minute-dot-complete-changes/