Bring the model off the screen and onto any surface a group can gather around. Your phone and a projector turn a room into a computer — and light into both the display and the sensor. Here's the idea, in Stephen's words, from the founding film.
"As long as you can open a browser, you can script the room."
— AnySurface, 2015"Your smartphone plus a projector — and you have AnySurface."
— AnySurface, 2015Control the light: use it to scan the height of the table, and to track objects as a user interface.
— the founding idea"The light bulb needs to fundamentally be interactive… you are the author of the room."
— AnySurface, 2015Since 2009: 60+ projected interactive tables shipped to firefighters and emergency managers.
Max is an agent made of light. Mostly he's the field — ambient, in the room; sometimes he steps forward as an avatar. He perceives your space and acts on it, and he tends the light so it works for you: precise, minimal, yours to command.
A working session with the teachers of the New Mexico Supercomputing Summer Teacher Institute — your phone as a device you host, then a room that maps itself. It starts Wednesday at 12:00 noon, Mountain time.
Counting down to the live session.
The app is already open: explore the single-device prototypes, invite Max, and get your phone ready. At noon Wednesday this becomes the door into the live room.