Turbulence TAU Hyper-Narrative Interactive Movie -- Change a Plot While You Watch

Change the course of a film plot--while you watch | Crave - CNET

Ever found yourself yelling, "Noooo, don't do it!" at a movie screen? Or been in the mood for a happy ending and found yourself halfway through a film you knew would leave you in a puddle of tears?

A new system out of Israel's Tel Aviv University allows viewers to influence a movie's plot while viewing it, thus affecting the progression of events. For now, audiences are testing the technology with a full-length interactive pilot feature, "Turbulence." But the plan is to extend the tool to other "hyper-narrative interactive movies," including commercials and television series, said Nitzan Ben Shaul, a professor of film and television studies at the university who created the system.

Collected from: Change the course of a film plot--while you watch | Crave - CNET

American Friends of Tel Aviv University: Choose a Movie's Plot -- While You Watch It

On the set of Turbulence

Utilizing complicated video coding procedures, the new format provides smooth interaction and transition between scenes as audience members watch — and determine the plot of — Turbulence, created by Prof. Nitzan Ben Shaul of Tel Aviv University's Department of Film and Television. Made with his unique scene-sequencing technique, Turbulence recently won a prize at the Berkeley Video and Film Festival for its technological innovation.

Collected from: American Friends of Tel Aviv University: Choose a Movie's Plot -- While You Watch It

Nitzan Ben-Shaul Researcher's site

Prof. Nitzan Ben-Shaul Ph.D. Film And Television
FACULTY OF THE ARTS
Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Nitzan Ben Shaul is Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies and former acting chair of the Film and Television Department at Tel Aviv University. He received his PhD from the Cinema Studies Dept. at New York University. He has authored several scholarly books among them Mythical Expressions of Siege in Israeli Films (Edwin Mellen, 1997), A Violent World: TV News Images of Middle Eastern Terror and War (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006), Film: The Key Concepts (Berg, 2007), and Hyper-narrative Interactive Cinema: Problems and Solutions (Rodopi, 2008). [...]

Collected from: Nitzan Ben-Shaul Researcher's site

Turbulence on Channel 10 News on Vimeo

Turbulence is an Israeli start-up commercializing a TAU patent that greatly simplifies and makes possible compelling interactive professional movies and audiovisual content. Their patented authoring tool and player software greatly simplifies and automates the current labor-intensive, complex process of creating an interactive video.

Collected from: Turbulence on Channel 10 News on Vimeo

Sources

Change the course of a film plot--while you watch | Crave - CNET

American Friends of Tel Aviv University: Choose a Movie's Plot -- While You Watch It

Nitzan Ben-Shaul Researcher's site

Turbulence on Channel 10 News on Vimeo

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"Turbulence," an Interactive Movie, Coming Soon to an iPad Near You | Fast Company

InChairTV -- In-Chair Dental Patient Entertainment

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Clipped from: InChairTV for Desperate Housewives at The Dentist's - Medgadget - www.medgadget.com

InChairTV is a company that's trying to popularize the use of display goggles during dental procedures, for the benefit of both the anxious patient and the dentist who's tired of holding one way conversations. Instead the patient can watch TV shows interrupted by advertising for the dentist's "high margin services".

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Clipped from: YouTube - InChairTV 1 Minute pitch

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Clipped from: InChair TV :: your home for in-chair dental patient entertainment

What is InChairTV?

InChairTV is a way to accomplish the two most important goals of any dental practice: to provide great service to your patients, and to maximize the income of your business as a result.

InChairTV is simply the best way to provide TV for patients to watch “in the chair” during dental procedures.

PATIENT PRESENTATIONS

Click on the images and watch patient presentations right now.



The American Dental Association performed a clinical study on patients using video headsets during dental procedures. It found that watching a show on a headset significantly reduced patient stress and procedure times, and over 75% of patients chose to use the headset again at their next appointment. Click here to read the article.

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PortoMedia Movies on Flash Memory Cards

Clipped from: Coming soon: Movies on flash memory cards - CNET News.com

Coming soon: Movies on flash memory cards

PortoMedia is setting up kiosks that will let consumers download movies to a flash memory card or portable hard drive.

The kiosks will be packed with hard drives that can hold 350 to 5,000 titles. Users then plug in a memory device from the company, enter a PIN code, and buy or rent a movie. When consumers get home, they simply slide the memory device into a dock connected to a TV.

PortoMedia's small flash key sits in the
company's discount dock. This hardware
will sell for around $50 in the U.S.

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Clipped from: PortoMedia.com

Download in seconds Sample and then down-load movies, TV Programmes and music videos, from your local store kiosk to your flash memory card, and enjoy them anywhere you want! On the move... Watch your downloaded content on a portable media player on the go, on a train or plane, or while waiting in the airport for that delayed flight, wherever you are! Home entertainment At home watch on your TV screen in full DVD quality and relax, you don’t have to return that DVD to the video store anymore. Your entertainment Kiosks have all the latest Hollywood movies, Independent film, Art House, TV dramas, documentaries and music videos along with a large back catalog of the greatest movies, providing a wide range of content to download.

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The Netflix Player by Roku (video)

The Netflix Player by Roku is a device that enables Netflix subscribers to instantly stream a growing library of movies and TV episodes from the Netflix, directly to the television.

clipped from www.reelzchannel.com Movie Downloads with Netflix's Roku Player Online DVD rental giant Netflix unveiled a new movie download device that will allow users to digitally stream titles directly to their TVs. The new set-top box, manufactured by Roku, will retail for $99, with unlimited downloads at no added cost for Netflix subscribers. clipped from www.roku.com clipped from www.roku.com clipped from www.roku.com 1) Connect To Your TV Just plug it in. The player is guaranteed to connect to any TV – even HDTVs. 2) Connect To Your Home Network Wired or wireless – it’s your choice. The player is compatible with your high-speed Internet connection either way. 3) Follow the On-Screen Instructions Follow a few simple instructions and you’ll be ready to watch instantly. That’s it…you’re ready to go! clipped from www.roku.com What do I need to use The Netflix Player? In order to use The Netflix Player, you need an active Netflix account, a high-speed Internet connection (minimum 1.5 Mbps), a home network (Wi-Fi or Ethernet) and a TV.

Project Free TV

Project Free TV, and easy to use and up to date video site. Watch movies and TV shows from many different sources.

clipped from www.free-tv-video-online.info Movies | Tv-Shows | All Movies and Tv Shows video will now have a "click to continue" page before you can watch the video. The click to continue page will point out that Project Free TV does not host any videos. Thus, helping Project Free TV stay alive.

Futuristic User Interfaces

From Science Fiction movies we are already familiar with exotic computer interfaces like the one's designed for this purpose by Mark Coleran Visual Designer:


See also

Human Computer Interaction in Science Fiction Movies

In real world there is already notable progress in technology of advanced computer interfaces, like:

Laser-based tracking for real-time gesture acquisition:

[...] The problem of tracking hands and fingers on natural scenes has received much attention using passive acquisition vision systems and computationally intense image processing. We are currently studying a simple active tracking system using a laser diode (visible or invisible light), steering mirrors, and a single non-imaging photodetector, which is capable of acquiring three dimensional coordinates in real time without the need of any image processing at all. Essentially, it is a smart rangefinder scanner that instead of continuously scanning over the full field of view, restricts its scanning area, on the basis of a real-time analysis of the backscattered signal, to a very narrow window precisely the size of the target.

For some other futuristic user interfaces see:

• Feeling Virtual Reality : DigInfo
• Sensisphere Interface
• An Interface for Virtual 3D Sculpting via Physical Proxy
• The book radio

via: Advertising Lab: future of advertising and advertising technology: Fictional Interfaces