Virtual Soundscape with DDR input

A friend of me called me this week that he had a problem with a assignment for school. He wanted to make an original concept for this circus poster assignment, and chose to make a poster for the blind. Earlier that week (he was also over for an assignment) he saw my DDR Dance Mat (that I bought earlier to experiment with) and proposed the concept of making an interactive poster with relief that can be pushed on different sculpted sections of the poster. After messing around with a piece of foam, trying to sculpt it in recognizable shapes we realized that that wasn’t going to work. We dumped the foam and started to think of an other concept, we ended up with a virtual soundscape that is lets the user roam through the circus environment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here we see the visual representation of the virtual environment (click the image to see the demo). The black dot is the user and is controlled by a DDR Dance Mat. The red dots are sound source, around the red dot you can see the range of the audio that is connected to its volume. For the Dance Mat input we used a app called ControllerMate, this is a small application for the mac that can recognize USB devices and port these trough to all kinds of output.

 

If you would like to see how it is done, click the following link to download the source files (Actionscript Project made in Flex)Source.zip [11.34 mb] 

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