Set up tested and finalized for Second Life Exhibit

I went back to Holland Project again this time for Friday night's show Who Cares With the Spitting Image and Octophonix. I was able to get a feel of how many people could be crammed into that small gallery space and it was more than I expected. Only problem I noticed is that if it gets too crammed with individuals there is virtually no room to leave empty or spare, and I do require a bit of room for the space between my projector and the wall.

I stood in my gallery space for a while and watched how people interacted with the art on the walls. To my surprise the food and beverage people had taken up the entire space where I am scheduled to install. I'm wondering if we will have a food and beverage place set up?

To sum it up it's a small space and the level of noise was very high which made me definitely decide to use headphones for my installation.

Below are two mock ups I did in Google SketchUp. The way in which I want my project to be installed is not going to guarantee that anyone will not stand in the way of my projector and block my installation, but it all boiled down to a matter of making it apparent to people. I decided the best way to go about this was to put down thin red pieces of tape on the ground in the shape of a square so people would notice that if they stood there they would be disrupting the projector display. I think this will work.

In the picture above I thought about just one set of headphones to allow a person to interact with my display one and a time. Then I thought about putting a few chairs, that way maybe another person could listen in or interact as well while sitting down. If they were sitting down maybe that would again reduce the amount of traffic in front of the projector.

So the mock up above is my final idea that I will materialize. I am going to design a kind of wooden frame with black cloth hanging around my projector and laptop. That will kind of act as a shelf in which on the top I will place the headphones for people to use at their leisure and I was thinking two chairs, again the space is incredibly small.

I have tested out the necessary projectors and equipment at my house from various distances and I found a distance of about 8 feet to be sufficient. Also I am still determining where my remote location will be on my end. Everything has been tested and finalized as far as installation ideas and procedures. Now I am going to focus the rest of my time on a script for my character and also dressing up the SL environment around him to prepare for when he is in the lime light (on gallery showing night).