Hi Dave!

Glen, Nagle, and I just watched Jon Blow’s talk through a slightly massaged iteration of Something about Cinematic Reality. We had three laptops in addition to a shared projection, and as you can see we generated an intense heat-map of response through the 75min talk:

You’ll note a few layout tweaks:

— the video is closer to fullscreen;

— the “state” buttons have been replaced with radio buttons;

— “solo” mode is clearly indicated with red background

Another addition—every keypress is propagated to every user (and the master), so you can watch someone typing:

Interesting consequences of realtime typing showing up globally:

— conversations are possible without disrupting “the moment”;

— text is only visible while it’s being typed, so delays allow for communication;

I also printed out a receipt of all the annotations. Here’s Glen with the first version:

…and then, a version of the receipt with film stills for the annotations

Below the fold, the notes themselves[1].

Lots more ideas. Glen and I just scrawled some far-out remote-collaboration possibilities involving webcam faces moving around as mouse cursors and mixing audio levels based on proximity. To be developed. Dave: let me know if/where/when we should meet again this week!

Your correspondent,

R.M.O.

[1] …though the YT time-links are always disappointing. And they seem to not work in Safari (?!)