AmazingEarth's video: The Future in Urban Technology and Architecture: Driverless Car with the Help of Xbox Kinect Cameras

The Future in Urban Technology and Architecture: Driverless Car with the Help of Xbox Kinect Cameras BIG, Kollision and Schmidhuber + Partner team up to bring BIG’s vision of future urban mobility to life for AUDI at Design Miami 2011, running from November 30th to December 4th adjacent to Art Basel Miami Beach. The 190 m^2 three-dimensional LED surface provides a glimpse of the future of our cities where infrastructure and public space is shared between pedestrians and driverless cars. The installation demonstrates how the city surface continuously gathers information about people's movements allowing vehicles to interact with the environment. Kollision developed a real-time graphics engine and the tracking software, which receives live input from 11 Xbox Kinect cameras mounted above the visitors’ heads. Through the cameras the movement of the visitors are processed into patterns of movement displayed on the LED surface. The installation sets the stage for Audi's A2 concept, which had its U.S debut at the design fair and is dedicated to the future of urban mobility, and is capable of communicating with its environment. The exhibition car continuously emits arrows showing its path, navigating between visitors at the stand. BIG originally presented the concept as an entry for the 2010 AUDI Urban Future Award introducing a future city paved with a digital surface that liberates the streets from existing boundaries and allows for a new flexibility of public use. For more information you can visit: kollision.dk/en/urbanfuture Attribution: Kollision - Urban Future Original Video found at: https://vimeo.com/35478478 License: CC with Attribution http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/