Augmented World Expo 2016 – Superpowers to the People
Today fabrics can be used as surfaces for display, for input, and even for feedback in the form of pressure to the user as a means of interaction with virtual data. Fabrics that are worn can be bioluminescent, as the threads used to weave the fabrics can have the properties associated with deep sea fish and glowing insects. This is the brave new world of the intersection of biotech with digital media.
Fabrics might well for example serve as foldable, cuttable displays. A fabric could literally be a screen. Its like projecting a movie onto a dress made of movie projection screen material, only there is no projector. The dress is the display. Flaschen Taschen, an LED array screen by the San Francisco hackerspace Noisebridge is a good example of this type of development at a relatively low resolution and was 'all over' the Maker Faire this year.
A comprehensive demonstration display of smart fabrics will be on show at this year's Augmented World Expo so anyone attending will be treated to that also.
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