Realize a pretty significant portion of reading audience outside US, but I suspect many know we’re doing the election thing again this year ... CNN has added big Pixel Perceptions unit running some custom software to show analysys, etc.  I’m sure there’s better video someplace, but this is one I found:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/01/15/jk.michigan.analysis.cnn?iref=videosearch

They call it the “Magic Wall” ...

satch - 07 February 2008 11:24 PM

Realize a pretty significant portion of reading audience outside US, but I suspect many know we’re doing the election thing again this year ... CNN has added big Pixel Perceptions unit running some custom software to show analysys, etc.  I’m sure there’s better video someplace, but this is one I found:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/01/15/jk.michigan.analysis.cnn?iref=videosearch

They call it the “Magic Wall” ...

hmm somehow that videoplayer isnt working here in FF or IE :(…

I have similar issue-- says I am behind a firewall/proxy. too bad, i’d like to have seen that. know of a similar video on youtube or the likes?

I saw the video. It’s interesting. I wish I saw some multitouch action. haha

cerupcat - 08 February 2008 12:39 PM

I wish I saw some multitouch action. haha

Ha, bingo ... cr*ppy video, but it shows the thing in some sort of action ...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ybkidUnbjcE

Thanks satch. Still seems like a waste of a multitouch device since they’re only using it for since point interaction. Cool vid none-the-less.

Yeah, The Daily Show made a remark about this back in January. CNN’s showing off a lot of neat tech, like augmented reality, but as they too easily demonstrate, they have no idea what they’re supposed to do with these things.

Their bogus multitouch implementation during the early primaries motivated me to look into real uses for multitouch input. The Daily Show vid is in my signature.

Their magic wall looks pretty impressive in terms of size. It looks like a the kind of movable whiteboard which u see in school.
How thick is that magic wall? It looks rather slim to me.  Kind of wonder where would the projector and camera be unless that’s a LCD monitor.

The “magic wall” is Jeff Hans wall from his company Perceptive Pixel.

yea i have read about it somewhere on the forums that it is that media wall by perceptive pixels.

I was looking at the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQQ7bT1IHrA and I somewhat find that the screen looks like a movable whiteboard.
If you seek the video to around 2:06, look at the stand of the screen. it looks like there is just a stand and not covered up like what most of the media wall photos found online(like this one.

So I am thinking if the bottom is just a stand without any kind of space, then where would the projector and computer be in? Unless the magic wall that the CNN has is thick enough to have the projector and computer in it. But again, it doesn’t look very thick to me.

I may have seen it wrongly though. I am not too sure myself actually.

how do we know it really is a pixel perceptive board? looks to me like a smartboard overlay on a lcd…

Many sources and online articles say it’s Jeff Han’s wall. Plus it does look like his wall when you compare the images/videos.

if its jeff han’s wall, then its sad that most interactions are single touch
some real multitouch please