1. Device Details – Camera System
Deployed to cover entire building (>100 nodes)
3MP Camera
Motorized Panning and Focus
Dedicated Video DSP/ARM
- (TI DaVinci chip)
Real-time Linux OS
LCD display (Touchscreen)
Contains Spinner Gateway/Sensor board (detailed on next slide)
Mat Laibowitz
45 distributed across Media Lab for October 08

2. Device Details – Spinner Gateway
Works with or without camera board
Communicates with wearable/mobile devices in mesh network
Serves as reference beacon for location system
Ethernet
Audio system with DSP
AVR32
Environmental Sensing
Motion
Humidity and Temperature
Light
Infrared Communication and Detection/Proximity
Talks to badge systems

3. October 2008 Demos Planned Video node identifies badged participants
Automatic connection to other participants with common interests (or tunneling into spaces where you have potential interest)
Explore spaces with high activity, look for colleagues
Portal into virtual world…

4. SecondLife
Representation
Drew Harry

5. Screen savers Continually pans and tilts
Observer waiting for interaction
(switch between different users)
Short clips taken from random camera
Map indicating activities of different areas
Continually pans and tilts

6. Interactive mode When badge user approaching
Change to interactive mode
User name shows up on the screen.
Control via touch screen
Current location displays on map
Portal stops panning/tilting when it sees a badge or screen is touched
If user without badge touches screen, this appears too

7. People (virtual/real)
Will probably be a periodically cascading set of menu pages YouTube Style

8. Places
The map zooms on first touch

9. This will be something more visible, perhaps flashing, etc.
Talk request
This will be something more visible, perhaps flashing, etc.
Connected conversations will automatically time out when badge not seen for over n seconds or a continue button is not pressed after a minute or so

10. Maps of Locations (will be changed)
3rd Floor - ultradense
4’th Floor - there will be more in research areas
LL - will put a few in the Cube
Ground

11. Look for this logo
I’ll once positions are finalized and stickers are all properly in place