OOOii brings Flash and AIR to Star Trek
I’ve been waiting almost a year now to tell you about all the cool Flash work that is featured in the new Star Trek movie. OOOii, which was formally named BlackBox Digital, is a live visual effects company run by Kent Demaine and is located in the heart of Hollywood. They design a lot of the amazing interfaces that you see on computer screens and other surfaces in feature films. Their credits include Enemy of the State, Minority Report, and The Island.
OOOii [OPEN INTERFACE] Designers of the Live Environment
For the past decade when Hollywood directors like STEVEN SPIELBERG, JJ ABRAMS, MICHAEL BAY, and TONY SCOTT have dreamed of the future, they have turned to us to build it. From the gesture based interfaces in Minority Report to the immersive technologies in The Island, from the power walls of Déjà Vu to the 360 projections in the much anticipated Star Trek, we bring custom large-scale immersive environments to life.
5D|09: The Immersive Design Conference
Digital technologies are blurring the boundaries between the passive and interactive experience of visual art, entertainment, environmental design and the built environment. For all those engaged in the creative process of world-building and storytelling in narrative media, 5D: The Immersive Design Conference is the platform for exploring the present and future of immersive design, and its impact on all aspects of the creative media space.
Our goal is to unite a vital community of designers and image-makers and to serve as a catalyst for innovation.
It's about 1994. Part of you is pursuing a new line of research at the MIT Media Laboratory, trying to make information more literally spatial. Your feeling is that, ten years in, the GUI that's taken over the world's idea of interface isn't getting at everything there is. Substantial swaths of human brain are dedicated to understanding space, understanding geometry, understanding physical structure. A cartoon of a messy desk surface doesn't much tax these swaths. The swaths can work harder, ought to be made to. You propose that informaton — and maybe especially the newly-blooming internet — has a topology but not yet a topography.
