At the heart of this research there’s a very small sensor that in simple words, reads the movements of a body. This sensor is called an Inertial Measuring Unit (IMU). To be exact, an accelerometer or a gyroscope read the movement, but we can find both these sensors inside an IMU sensor. A inception of sensors.
An Inertial Measuring Unit (IMU) is a tool that measures the acceleration, angular motion and orientation of a body (or in our case a hand) by usi
ng a combination of an accelerometer, a gryoscope and a magentometer. It is that little device
that knows if you’re holding your smartphone in portrait or landscape mode, and the same tool that with the aid of specific algorithms knows how many steps you’ve made and how many calroies you lost. The same mechanism that helps improving the heading of your robot vacuum cleaner.
This same device will be used to wirelessly (obviosuly!) read movement data from the dancer’s hands and send it to a computer that will later massage and transform this data into flashy sounds and moody visuals.
More details on how we’re using this in the following days..
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