We've had a series of meetings starting with the brainstorming sessions. Through these we narrowed the fast flowing river of ideas down to the Worldmap-- which is , a booth installation with a webcam and a projector which when activated will show a 3d globe facing the user.
The story of Worldmap is........ Rory and Alice are travellers in space and are looking for an interesting place to explore and from a distance they spot a small planet circling a bright star, the Sun. Believing that the Sun might be a little warm they decide to take a closer look at at the much more hospitable, planet Earth. Now the view that Rory and Alice get is the same view that the user will get on activating the installation and on making a sweeping movement of the hand the globe will spin showing all the continents. Now not being knowledgeable about Earth Rory and Alice need information on this interesting place so after spinning the world Rory points at a particular place ie. a continent and lo and behold with a whooosh he and Alice descend on the world and view some interesting facts and figures about said continent. For example when Rory points at China he flys down and lands at the Great Wall and reads various statistics about the Wall and China in general. On digesting this info Rory, with another swipe of his hand returns into space and rejoins the wonderful Alice who spins the Earth again and settles on a different area and so on until she eventually points to Europe and in particular, Ireland................To be continued....
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