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News Release from: The Alternative (Happy People Corporation) | Subject: interactive shop window
Edited by the Marketingservicestalk Editorial
Team on 16 January 2008
World's first no-touch interactive shop
window
The Alternative, a London-based engagement and creative agency, has developed a unique way to engage passers-by on busy streets with a no-touch interactive shop window for Orange.
This innovation has provided Orange with a fun way to excite and entertain customers for hours after the Carnaby Street retail store has closed for the day The installation in the store's main window employs a large projection screen and highly advanced piece of motion capture technology
This technology is has been developed by The Alternative and this is the first time it has been shown to the public.
Via the large projected image and a touch-free interface, the installation provides users with an engaging new way to activate news, film clips, music videos and many of Orange's unique services.
To use the window all you need is a hand, and the ability to wave it wildly in thin air without caring what you look like.
This ground-breaking innovation really does appear to be a world first, so naturally it's hard to create suitable comparisons.
If forced to make one, Gavin Martin, Creative Director of The Alternative, said "This really is the next generation of the user interface - we wanted to throw out all the traditional ways if interacting with technology and start from scratch.
"We created this with the needs of humans in mind, not computers.
"Many people find it hard to imagine but a few people have referenced the film 'Minority Report', with the exception that with our interface you don't need a 'magic glove', or indeed a controlled environment to use this".
One of the most impressive features isn't a technical one, however.
It's how the window turns even the most reserved person into a piece of street theatre within seconds.
"The interactive is just as much fun when you watch others use it as it is to play with yourself; because it requires movement it is very intuitive, it's great fun", added Martin.
"Tests have shown that we can now make a playful child out of any grown adult in a matter of seconds".
The motion-capture system will undoubtedly find many more exciting applications across a wide variety of sectors.
The Alternative is a specialist engagement agency; over the past 12 years we've discovered that true success comes to those people and businesses who can embrace a dynamic and 'engagement-led' mentality.
During this voyage of discovery, we've developed our own bespoke tools and methodology (Wavelength) to analyse, evaluate, map and deliver hard-edged, real-time engagement with any sponsors, employees or customer groups.
We can create short sharp kick-starts to just get things moving at critical moments for the business, and do this in a tactical way to drive real results.
Alternatively we develop longer lasting, deeper shifts in the hearts and minds that embed a more engagement-led culture in the people that matter to you.
At the Alternative we look at engagement as a discipline of delivering better results.
Our mission is to help organisations drive their business agenda creatively through better engagement with the people that matter to them.
In this respect we're always happy to chat with people who find themselves looking for an Alternative to what is on the table in front of them.
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