HMC MediaLab created a special Hyperfabric installation for the Artytechs parlour this summer at the prestigious and exclusive Port Eliot literature festival. Taking place in a hidden dungeon underneath the stately home, visitors had the chance to come face to face with the magical and mysterious interactions.
Hyperfabric is a new interface that lets you reach beyond the screen. It's a very "touchable" surface, made out of an elastic-like fabric called "Hyperfabric". The screen warps like rubber, and can sense how hard your press it, where you press it, and you can even have lots of people using it at once. You really feel like you are going "through" the screen.
You can press, grab, twist, punch and play with the screen. It can even support your full bodyweight. The Hyperfabric screen is specially designed to communicate with a computer to generate interactive computer graphics, in realtime.
What this means is we can create beautiful, magical scenes. You can see sparks fly out of your fingertips. You can cast magic spells from your hands. You can press your face into the hyperfabric to release fairies, or stir up ghosts in the dead of night.
The Hyperfabric chamber was unlike anything else, a truly beautiful art piece 7 feet high. The interaction of directly caressing the screen really added to the wow factor, and the Hyperfabric's special tactile response technology allows for ultra-responsive generative art to emerge from your fingertips.
HMC MediaLab designed the hyperfabric after working with large scale touchscreens and touchtables. The team found that whilst they were very effective at controlling computers, they just didn't "feel" touchable. HMC MediaLab wanted to create something that you could really engage with, so it's perfect for adults and children of all ages and abilities.
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