The Dream Board
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I believe the new video hog wings support multitouch. With hog supporting vista, and vista has lots of voice recongnization built in, i'm sure you could easily have a voice activated console. It may take some tweaking, but when i have some time i'll stick the idea into highends head. Also being able to open up a wig display of the rig and minuplate it with your hands using multi touch technolgy would make working in 3D space much easier. I was playing with a lighting console (i want to say it was a prototype) that supported multitouch. For the life of me i cannot remember what the console was.
Anyone have a bridge for me to jump off of?
I'm beginning to think that I'll have to get used to it.
People that have influence tell me it's the future.
JD
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They are already working on that in the computer world! Was reading an article awhile back about the use of touch screens for restaurants needing tactical feedback and that a company was developing a system that sent a vibration through the panel as any change was made. Nothing you could hear, but you would feel it in your fingertip as the change was made.
JD
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There is actually a way to "crash proof" a board, although nobody bothers to use it. It is called the "odd man out" architecture. Often used in mission critical applications (which I think would include a rock concert with 30,000 in attendance, but that's just me), basically you run three parallel processors running the same software, and all of your output interfaces look for either the three to agree, or the best of three if one goes down. It's just a matter of using exclusive "and" gates on the output. Hey, since this is a "dream board", lets give it that feature!
As far as being content with what products are already out there, just remember, 10 years from now current boards are going to look as out of date as boards that are 10 years old now! It is always interesting to explore what may be ahead, and sometime these thoughts actually help shape the future!
As far as being content with what products are already out there, just remember, 10 years from now current boards are going to look as out of date as boards that are 10 years old now! It is always interesting to explore what may be ahead, and sometime these thoughts actually help shape the future!
Well, layout of the board notwithstanding, it needs a large touchscreen that can be used as a tablet (so it'd have to be horizontal/flat, or maybe on a bit of an incline). You can set up a camera (while we're dreaming, it can be at any angle, any orientation), live video feed to the console. You can then program in the stage dimensions based off that camera feed to your console (in x, y, z dimensions of course). Now, if you want to follow a talent/actor around the stage, its as easy as using a stylus (or finger!) to follow the image on your touchscreen. Can do it with any moving light!
Would make programming easier too.
Would make programming easier too.
Logos
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So we start with a touch screen like Alex showed us. Then we make it a hologram like in Minority Report (hated the film loved the computer). This hologram is suspended in the air in front of us and the scale is adjusted so that we are looking at the stage in real size. Then we use the screen to mix colours which immediately happens on stage.
Is Fred Bentham still alive he would love this idea. Not to mention Craig and Appia.
Is Fred Bentham still alive he would love this idea. Not to mention Craig and Appia.
JD
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Interesting thing about the idea of a video feed. When you are a couple of hundred feet from the stage, catching visual cues on a fast moving rock show can be a problem. TO make matters worse, there is a sound delay. This used to drive me nuts! Video feed would be a good idea.
As for holograms, not much available "off the shelf" at the current time, so that might have to wait
I want 45 degrees of adjustment with at least 5 positions that lock.
JD
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You could actually use four flat touchscreen all-in-one's like this http://www.annso.com/htm/Panel_Computing/ippc-1575.htm so the board would have four quadrants. two would be level and the rear two would be on an adjustable angled back. The board would work like a mini-network, containing the 4 integrated display/input systems, a sub-system that operated as a file server, and a core processor running a lower level language that actually would take care of interpreting your input into something the DMX world would understand (along with calculating and profile support.) This way, if one of the windows subsystems went down, you could simply page the missing area up on one of the other monitor faces. (Each would have all four quadrants on it's taskbar)
You could probably do away with the subsystem hard drives and equip each with a boot-rom that would bring the OS up from the integrated file server.
You could probably do away with the subsystem hard drives and equip each with a boot-rom that would bring the OS up from the integrated file server.
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