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The [[http://www.montevideo.nl/nl/agenda/detail_agenda.php?id=460|magic mirror v2]].0.0 - I just made that SVN tag and started wondering about the name - will be presented this Friday (//July 11 2008//) at Montevideo - the Netherlands Institute for Media Art (http://nimk.nl) in Amsterdam - the opening is at 17.00. 

Frontera is a fancy combination of video-recording, hand-detection and video-projection: It allows the user to interact with a person projected on a touch-screen, where the projection follows the hand of the player.
It takes about three minutes to record an //avatar// of oneself (wiping the screen) and there are two installations at Montevideo allowing to play and record.

We've had lots of fun and finally got to do a few //good// recordings of ourselves - come and play at the opening 
or later. 

The last days have been busy, there are last minute changes on the frames and we still need to do a final calibration of //justpoint//. - I spent most of today tweaking the GUI to avoid reflections (of the monitor while recording) but we've managed to cover miles in the last days and even made a small webinterface to browse the recordings... - the software devel went quite smooth, we've made a few extras that we don't need and if I get the time i'll optimize the query for movement detection. - worst task: recalibration after zooming or panning the recording camera. 

read more [[wiki:frontera]].

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