Interactive technology allows interactive projections to transform any floor into an interactive surface

Have you ever wondered how it would feel, if every step you walked on a floor, gave it a new appearance. Designs and animations start to fling by as you move your feet on the floor. And, remember we’re not talking about the normal disco floors you see around. Those are only capable of changing colors and lights, these interactive floor projections are much more intuitive and take you to another level of interactive experience.

The underlying technology, allows interactive projections to transform any floor into an interactive surface. Images are projected from above the floor, where a camera and infra-red light source is mounted for capturing the feet and body movements of the person walking over the floor. Corresponding to these movements, projections are reflected on the surface of the floor.

The technology of interactive floors has already started to penetrate some specific segments, especially in the fields of entertainment, gaming, and marketing. To give you a more specific picture, read below about the prevalent uses of interactive floor projections.

1. Clubs and Casinos
Although most of us have seen dance floors change colors and light, but that is ancient now. The new technology of interactive floors is giving this old hag a hard time. Discs and casinos now employ interactive projection floors have, where floors are synchronized with music and change their appearance in correspondence to the body movements.

2. Gaming
While you and your kids have enjoyed sitting on stationary bikes and car dummies and handled steerings to control them, it is now time for enjoying real time outdoor games, like football using the interactive surfaces or floors. Sensitive to your weight and touch, you simply have to kick virtual balls on the floors by sliding along your feet play interesting matches. Yes there still remains space constriction, but for personal use the surface is great. You can turn your living room surface into a game field and turn it back into a living room, once the game is over.

3. Marketing tool
Tools like the interactive floor projections are indeed rapidly changing how companies plan their marketing activities, with a prominent attraction for real estate, architecture firms and design firms. For example one needs to choose their floor tiles; manufacturers and sellers can project the floor options in real-time helping consumers to make a more informed purchase decision.

4. Entertainment
While 3D and 5D experiences are exhilarating consumers with a new type of awe, the next best personal entertainment experience can be derived from interactive projection floors. These floors are available in the form of square tiles, which when put together as a floor surface will allow display of a vast number of effects, both sound and visual in response to the body and feet movement of the person on the floors.

How about transforming your own home into a discotheque this Valentine？

The lover’s day – Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Everyone I know, in love or not, is planning a party with their Valentine’s on those interactive floors of the discos etc. There are others who don’t have a Valentine and are sitting self-centered, waiting for a miracle to happen in their lives.

Now, amid all these, there are also a few guys and gals, who, either governed by social stigma, or their own shyness, are not in a shape to take their Valentine’s out on a date to a discotheque or a pub.

How about transforming your own home into a discotheque this Valentine, to relive yourself of all the hassles of public drama in the pubs etc.? Sounds a great idea to us, you say you’re convinced too? Well then, we are on the same page. Now, there is a chance you’ve transformed your apartment into a disco on numerous occasions in the past with lots of flicker lighting, great DJ console playing your favorite tracks, coupled with some extraordinary food, hmmm!

Interactive Dance Floor

We know, you’re thinking how you are going to change all this to make it more exciting and different. Well, we are pleased to tell you that this time you have the option of taking home interactive floor projectors to convert your floor in the house into interactive floor worth drooling over with simple 3D floor projections.

Now think, wouldn’t it be so exciting and inviting if your living room floor could become a huge interactive display – something that the discos so boast of? Just think how pleasing it would be to see the love of your life watch the projected floor and notice the series of patterns that change as he/she walks on the floor. The expression on his/her face will be beyond words we guarantee. Valentine’s Day is already the most exciting day for your love.

See the delight on the your lover’s face as the floor projection invites you both to play, swirl or dance on it – it’s up to you. The interactive floor projection theater (the setup) also projects 3D images, which make you feel as if you were actually on the waves (of water in projected on the walls) or floating in the clouds (if clouds are projected). We don’t believe there can be something more personal and delightful you can do to make your Valentine feel special.

So what is interactive floor projection?

The Floor Projection Theater is a setup of projector and camera, which when installed, projects interactive images on the floor. The camera tracks person’s position and changes the projected images based on the movement and position of the person. The floor projection thus transforms an ordinary floor into an exciting and entertaining interactive floor. Available in different sizes the interactive floor projectors let users customize size of the floor projection depending on the space.

Setup and maintenance

Interactive floor projection systems are mostly plug and play and very easy to install. Many of these interactive floor projection systems are three dimensional, which add to the user experience. The project systems come with wireless function, which make it very easy for even non-technical users to install and maintain.