1. Nimbus Project
Final Project Proposal
Conway Liao
Major Studio 2: Interactive
Parsons School of Design
13 March 2009

2. Abstract

3. Abstract
To create an immersive visual platform in which the user can navigate
through an environment in 360 degrees + above/below

4. Experience Documentation
Soft
Perspective History
Hard
Communication
Memories Primary
Emotions Video
Photo
Somatosensatory
Visual Time Capsule
Auditory
Secondary
Thermoception
Traditions
Blog
Body Language Olfactory
API Mapping
Databases
Data Visualization
Semiotics Gestures

5. Experience Documentation
Soft History
Hard
Communication
ry
Video
Photo
Somatosensatory
Time Capsule
Secondary
Thermoception
Blog
API Mapping
Data Visualization

6. Precedents + Inspiration

7. Lost in Translation
Sophia Coppola

8. Pileus Umbrella

9. Pileus Umbrella

10. Umbrella
Rihanna

11. Abri No177
OzCollective

12. Visual Artifacts

13. DAIM

14. Hertzian Rain
Mark Shepard

15. Concept
How can images be immersive?
How can one dynamically explore a foreign environment?

19. Pico Projector

20. Pico Projector

21. Pico Projector
Orientation Sensor

22. Pico Projector
Orientation Sensor

23. Projection
Pico Projector
Orientation Sensor

24. Projection
Pico Projector
Orientation Sensor
When the user moves the umbrella in
any direction, the scene will dynamically
refresh giving the user a feeling that
they’re enveloped.

26. Umbrella Up - Navigate

28. Umbrella Around - Navigate

30. Umbrella Down - New City

31. Umbrella Down - New City
New York
London
Tokyo

32. Methodology

33. Equirectangular
Image
Click Here.

34. Orientation Sensor
Click Here.

35. Pico Projector

36. Challenges
Limited knowledge of physical computing
Aordability of 3D orientation sensor
Limited knowledge of programming
Static installation + not spatial