May 19 2010Eye Candy: Crazy 3-D Mapped 'Sensory Box'
Note: Video of the get really high first is after the jump.
This is a very worthwhile video of some room with a bunch of blocks in it that have been video-mapped and then projected with some crazy-ass eye candy. No, not just candy -- bacon. CANDIED BACON. Yes, candied f***ing eye bacon. Per Babelfish translation from French:
ENVISION: Step into the sensory box. Under this name hides the immersive experiment offered by ALCATEL-LUCENT to its customers at the time of the last Mobile World Congress. An experiment containing video mapping conceived by agency SUPERBIEN and the department New Media of the Agency \ Audience. The public was invited to enter a cube and to discover an artistic vision of the tagline of the event: Transforming the mobile experiment.
You just gotta watch it. I was so high when I did it felt like I was living in TRON. Except my lightbike was stationary and my uncle was riding it in his underwear. Wipe the seat afterward, God!
Hit it for the very worthwhile video.
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Amazing display of light [thenextweb]
Thanks to Luis, who's convinced the video is all black magic. Jesus, not everything is black magic. Just most things.
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Reader Comments
1. Revan - May 19, 2010 4:43 PM
Hi Tony
2. piggyjelly - May 19, 2010 4:46 PM
Wow, I expected more comments, anyways this is awesome.
3. Cuckoo - May 19, 2010 4:46 PM
Third!
4. piggyjelly - May 19, 2010 4:47 PM
@3 Mehehhe I beat you
5. L - May 19, 2010 4:51 PM
umm, I just had a seizure...
6. Phillynate - May 19, 2010 4:53 PM
Sweet Mammy thats awesome! I still don't exactly understand how it works....or what it could apply to.....
7. Cuckoo - May 19, 2010 4:54 PM
@4 Yeah, but I correctly predicted you would. Nyagh.
Also, the second most awesome thing I've seen all day.
8. Phillynate - May 19, 2010 4:56 PM
Sweet Mammy thats awesome! I still don't exactly understand how it works....or what it could apply to.....
9. fonda - May 19, 2010 5:09 PM
i had to stop watching a quarter of the way into the vid so as to refrain from convulsing. but very cool.
10. Seno - May 19, 2010 5:14 PM
I seized.
11. paul. - May 19, 2010 5:18 PM
Mobile experience? But it all happened in a room filled with boxes... while it was indeed very cool looking I would argue that this was the shittiest mobile experience ever.
12. Mr Spacer - May 19, 2010 5:21 PM
Wow am I the only one who didn't have a seizure? I pooped a little. But that happens. Right?
13. Spoon - May 19, 2010 5:22 PM
OH MY GAAAAAAAAH...put this in the bathroom and at late at night i will never get lost and will be one crazy trip to the bathroom everynight..
14. TCB - May 19, 2010 5:31 PM
how does it work?????some next laser shit?
15. naas - May 19, 2010 5:35 PM
beautiful
16. D - May 19, 2010 5:57 PM
Now THIS is awesome!! =D I can watch this for HOURS
17. emptyaddy - May 19, 2010 6:24 PM
Should have been the teaser trailer for Tron Legacy.
18. J - May 19, 2010 7:06 PM
@13 Your up late every night to go to the bathroom??? Dude get your prostate checked.
19. Enflamed - May 19, 2010 7:10 PM
I'm glad I'm not the only one who was confused about how a room full of boxes enhances the "mobile experience", on a side note, I'd love a room in my house like this for when I'm high / drunk.
20. Pander Smirk - May 19, 2010 8:07 PM
i dont get it
21. daman - May 19, 2010 9:13 PM
Wow. Totally tripped out on that shit.
22. Spoilblor - May 19, 2010 9:33 PM
Best guess: It's a digital projector. They cast a grid onto the blocks, map the lines and corners, then design the light show based on those points. It's all very mundane, unless they actually used lidar to map the objects for rendering CG models, in which case they should be able to rig robots up for a laser lingerie show.
23. DreadChampion - May 19, 2010 9:39 PM
There's a candy shop called Marini's Downtown in Santa Cruz, CA that actually sells candied bacon. Well... Chocolate covered bacon.
24. phil - May 19, 2010 9:54 PM
I can't wait until they legalize marijuana and then we have bars like this....
25. Rayne - May 19, 2010 9:55 PM
Was I the only one who wanted to slap whoever was tapping this? it was really awesome to look at but with all the moving and the bad angles it was ruined a little bit.
26. ITC - May 19, 2010 10:19 PM
I hate this fucking cameraguy for looking at it at every wrong angle.
27. jumpin_j - May 19, 2010 11:33 PM
Bacon, want! Chocolate, want! Chocolate with bacon, DO NOT WANT! It's like crossing the streams in Ghostbusters, a very very bad idea.
28. Joe Melnick - May 19, 2010 11:47 PM
This is just simple CG, in a 3D program like Cinema or Maya, then put into After Effects for the freaky post work. There are several plugins that do that shaky cam to make it look like real hand-held, and all the lighting and glowing box sides is just keyframed textures and splines. Very impressive, but hardly the second coming.
29. Balrag - May 20, 2010 3:17 AM
Captivating
30. Ginger_tea - May 20, 2010 6:21 AM
LOVE! And yes I would like to have it at home! Very nice!
31. nick - May 20, 2010 8:12 AM
If you are interested in this style of installation, check out the work of Pablo Valbuena at http://www.pablovalbuena.com/
He's often credited with pioneering this technique of projection mapping.
32. painweaver - May 20, 2010 8:23 AM
one step closer to the holodeck....
33. Anon - May 20, 2010 8:28 AM
this is totally shopped. you can tell by the lines and pixels.
34. Nurstee - May 20, 2010 9:01 AM
i need one of thoseeeee statttttt
35. Fuzziest - May 20, 2010 10:23 AM
Amazeballs!
36. MoD - May 20, 2010 12:56 PM
mind=blown
37. JR - May 20, 2010 1:42 PM
Thirty Seventh!!!
38. Myshel - May 20, 2010 2:12 PM
I jizz right in my pants ♥o♥
39. Dig Dug - May 20, 2010 4:20 PM
The very definition of a shroom room.
Wow.
40. Cyntyfyc - May 20, 2010 9:47 PM
OMG, I would buy this right now if were 2 hours long on a blu-ray...
41. Craig - May 21, 2010 11:36 AM
Joe M - no, this is not CG. It is CG being projected on a physical 3D surface.
42. Al - May 21, 2010 12:34 PM
it would have been good if the film school dropout wasn't working the camera
43. rockernerd - May 22, 2010 11:23 PM
WANT! If only I could have this in my room.
44. Andrew - May 23, 2010 9:56 AM
seizures. so many seizures
45. zigeal - May 24, 2010 7:26 PM
Need to watch tripping...
46. Steph - May 25, 2010 3:46 PM
I'm high, and it felt silky.
47. ThanatosK - June 25, 2010 3:40 PM
Cameraman ability fail
48. Ninja - July 16, 2010 9:50 AM
seizures, I've had a few,
but then again, too many to mention.
49. vijay - October 25, 2010 9:51 AM
vijay
50. Bryan - January 24, 2011 9:50 PM
Any chance of a followup tutorial on how to do this?