livedesignonline.com: Tait developed the Pixel Tablet to form the backbone of landscape video. It is a 3"x3" RGB unit (135mmx135mm) weighing less than 1.1 lb (.5 kg), and each unit can be handheld by members of the audience, placed in holders adaptable to any environment, or mounted on a netting system to allow coverage of any landscape or architectural façade.
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This seems like a cool idea, yet a little impractical as well. To have any kind of actual image, you would ned a lot of these little guys, Good color and patterns could probably come out of this. I wonder if the handheld device is double sided. Putting these in the hands of audience could pose some concerns for visibility if they dont think about how the audience will hold them in every configuration. Being able to mount them or hold them would be good. I wonder if a different size would be better.
This seems like such a cool device, but i really wish this article was a little longer and went into a little more detail because im not really sure i understand it from the one paragraph that was written.Its really great that they allow the audience to be included in the show. But i dont understand how putting them on each seat allowed the entire stadium to become a video screen. The tablet is so small that that doesnt make sense. Does it project some or are there just so many that from far away it looks like an uninterrupted screen?
it seems like a really neat way to incorporate video into shows and things but I wish i had more info about it.
I agree with April that theoretically, this is a very cool idea that can open up a plethora of design opportunities, but the article only provides base details. I could see this being used in Concerts, major art installations, and pretty much anything with a large audience. However, I don't know how much it costs, what protocol it operates under, what backend infrastructure is needed to enable it, and its scalability. However, this doesn't seem like a end user product, so maybe the point of the article isn't to make me wonder how I can get my hands on it, but rather, just to let the world know it exists.
this seems like a great idea to replace the old giant cards for everyone in the audience to hold up. definitly has the potential for but it looks like the 9 RGB LED's dont have a whole lot of potential for imagery perhaps if it were covered by more units then it could have real potential next all it would take is the audience to actually cooperate.
Woah pretty cool! Like everyone said maybe a bit impractical because you would need so many of them to make any kind of impact, but certainly a very cool idea. I believe these, or something similar to these, are what were attached to the seats in the stadium that hosted the London Olympics Opening Ceremony, and they had a great effect there. Having such a large number of them near each other created a simply INCREDIBLE show-- in person and on TV. Great to see such immersive technology becoming more available.
This is a really cool idea. I think that for theater, we would have to do something different than placing it in the hands of the audience because no one would be able to see the final product unless they were far away. (Or at least that's what i understand form the single paragraph). I wonder if these could be incorporated into costumes some how? Just imagine a dancer performing and dressed head to toe pixel tablets... we could essentially make a human TV screen.
I remember watching this at the olympics and wondering how it was put together and seeing this amazes me. I find it so weird how all of these equally spaced apart could create the images that it created. These seem to be a great way to fill a space with light and still have images to project for audiences alike to see.
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