My pressure project began very ambitiously. The idea was to use the Webcam, the Eyes++ Actor and Isadora’s sound recognition actors to have users interact with the scene to the beat of the music. However, my PC’s webcam would often misbehave and the system would lag as I attempted to run all of these actors in conjunction, especially when I attempted to incorporate chroma key-based tracking and interactions. The focus of the idea was heavier on sound rather than webcam interactions, thus I scrapped the webcam element and made the process interact with the sound and only sound.
Interestingly, the reaction to the project in action during class lead to my peers wishing me to turn the music off, so they could interact with the scene using their own voices and claps of the hand. It was an unexpected outcome, indeed.