Creative Projection

A collection of videos highlighting the fun and creative uses of projectors.

I can't help it....I secretly search for and eat up Apple rumors. Those rumors became especially applicable to the projector world when the word was that Apple headquarters was registered as the admin contact for ApplePico.com and we touched on it in the Pondering Pixel. This of course came a year after the rumor that the iPhone 4 was going to have an on board pico projector. That, of course, never happened.more

Just when I thought I understood the needs of gamers in terms of projection purity I come across this video which features the coming together of smartphone, pico projector and tripod projector for casual gaming on the fly. While I was absorbing data on lag time and frame interpolation and trying to understand how to achieve projected gaming nirvana, LaserVR was creating Alpha Range a video projector and laser pointer game available exclusively for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Looks like this throwback is providing a quick fix to happy iOS device users.

This home made iPhone projector will certainly never compete with the Optoma PK301 pico projector, but at a cost of $3 as opposed to $399 the inventors ingenuity is well worth the applause I'm sending his way. An instant scenario created in my mind for me is Mom and Dad working on this with the kids before bedtime and rewarding them for the fruit of their labor with an instant movie in their room.