Wrist Watch
An interactive installation exploring Tissot watches through hand tracking and 3D visuals.Project Info
Client
Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD)
Year
2012
Summary
Wrist Watch is an interactive installation created for Baselworld 2012, inviting visitors to place their hand inside one of four illuminated columns and explore virtual worlds inspired by four emblematic Tissot watches.
As visitors move and rotate their wrist, animated 3D environments unfold around it, creating the sensation that the hand is immersed directly within each watch universe.
Artanim was commissioned by HEAD – Genève and Trivial Mass Production to develop the hand and wrist tracking system using Microsoft Kinect. The tracked position and orientation of the wrist were used to control the interactive 3D content in real time.
The concept was developed by Cassandre Poirier-Simon with Raphaël Muñoz, Baptiste Milési and Nadya Suvorova, while Rob van Leijsen and Laure Bretagnolle designed the physical installation.
Credits
Coordination
Trivial Mass Production
Concept and design
Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD)
Motion tracking system development
Artanim
3D game engine development
Demain la Lune
Air nozzle system development
Les Ateliers Modernes
3D modeling of the virtual worlds
Marco Falsitta, Olivier Gros, Emilien Stragiotti – Freelancers