Unexpectedly we were approached by the MoMA to show Atlas Gloves (potentially the cheapest work to ever be presented there) in the upcoming exhibition titled Design and the Elastic Mind and in the catalog that would accompany it. The exhibition will highlight examples of successful translation of disruptive innovation, examples based on ongoing research, as well as reflections on the future responsibilities of design. Of particular interest will be the exploration of the relationship between design and science and the approach to scale.
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We were just sent this exciting link from Smithee and Joel at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, they’ve made their own Atlas Gloves and recorded their experience. We are excited to present to you Atlas Gloves in the UK:

Hi guys,

sorry for the long wait, we wanted to polish the code and comment the source well before putting it here for download, but now it’s up. Go download the application and build your own Atlas Gloves. As you probably can imagine, this app is pretty hacky and is bound to work differently with different types of computers and webcams. We encourage you to play with the code and adjust it, we’ve made it as accessible as we could. Now it’s your turn.

enjoy the ride…

We’re sorry for the delay, Atlas Gloves will be downloadable soon. We are trying to optimize the code as much as we can before posting it, we need to consider different operating systems, CPUs and webcams. We promise to post the code soon and notify all of you guys (who left/sent us an e-mail)

thanks for all of your support,

Dan & Mushon

Here is a short video demonstrating how Atlas Gloves works. There are two channels of video composited on top of each other—one of the physical gestures and the other of a large-scale projection of Google Earth, being controlled by Atlas Gloves.

Note: the video has music, so you may want to press mute if you’re at work

Atlas Gloves will officially debut on Tuesday-Wednesday, May 9th-10th at the ITP Spring Show at Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, NY, NY. For more details about the show and the rest of the interesting projects that will be presented there, visit the show’s website.

Atlas Gloves is a DIY physical interface for controlling 3D mapping applications like Google Earth. The user interface is a pair of illuminating gloves that can be used to track intuitive hand gestures like grabbing, pulling, reaching and rotating. The Open Source Atlas Gloves application can be downloaded here and operated from home using a webcam and two self-made illuminating gloves (or flashlights).

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