american: i-Cocoon

The world around is changing everyday, people are changing too. It is your personal experience and experimentation what makes your world a better place, a place made for you and you alone as a first step. It is what you experience in life what makes the energy you need and the batteries you burn to create and interact. The future is happening now, and if you think you've seen it all, or, you've seen enough, here's something that may change your opinion and maybe your life.
The i-Cocoon or Immersive Cocoon is a new design where you can live a virtual experience inside a spherical computer that tracks your movement to create the opportunity to interact with everything around digitally.

" Featuring a future concept by design collective NAU, this spec teaser short film reveals an evolution in computing interaction, within a setting inspired by the penultimate scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Starring that film’s lead actor, Keir Dullea; “2011″ was developed over a two year period. Live action was filmed multi-camera, against green screen atop a backlit plexi floor on a shoestring budget. Mr. Dullea was then integrated into an entirely digitally created CG set rendered at 1080HD. The Immersive Cocoon itself, is not a commercial product. It is a concept study; an idea to push the envelope and provoke a new conception of interface technology.
Imagine a digital experience that is intuitive and holistic, where your interface is not reduced to a mouse click and two-dimensional analog of a writing desk. A surround display dome complemented by the sophisticated motion-sensing software that inspired the technology depicted in the film Minority Report. With natural, intuitive movements, your entire body becomes the interface. Imagine instead of a screen, a visual-audio environment that envelops you. Recreating the three-dimensional space we perceive in our everyday lives. Where work and play become more concentrated and enjoyable and allow one to depart on journeys you never thought possible. This is the promise of the Immersive Cocoon, a concept study for an advanced digital environment. "

The entire concept was developed by NAU