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Posted June 8th 2010 under Installations, Light
“HYPERSKY is an augmented reality window looking upwards, revealing the current natural conditions and manmade objects zooming through the airspace above the house”.
Created for an entrance in a private residence by Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram.
Using a HD video camera, “On any given day the HYPERSKY display shows a live video signal of the sky over the house. Clouds and birds pass by. The sunlight changes”, (shown above).
“At night HYPERSKY automatically switches to a view of the starry sky enveloping the house, though not the actual perceived sky which would be rarely visible due to the lights of the city nearby — rather each planet, star, constellation, globular cluster or galaxy is calculated and drawn in real-time onto the display surface — creating a live map of the true dynamic physical conditions. A radar system picks up the beacons sent out by airplanes, revealing their current position, origin and destination. A satellite tracking system confers with online databases to show the location, speed, altitude and owner of each satellite as it passes by, hundreds of kilometers above.”
“During heavy rain or winds the HYPERSKY automatically switches to abstract displays of the rain drops falling onto a virtual liquid surface or thermodynamic visualization of the wind currents streaming around the house”.
I wish I had that in my house! Would be good to see some video documentation.
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