The flying cubes [SAILS] at the Museum of Civilization in Quebec City

Nicolas Reeves, creator of the cubes project, presents a unique event at DSM-V+ / Folie Culture. I'm in charge of software and hardware engineering. The installation is about the interaction between 3 cubes and visitors. Visitors will have the opportunity to chat with the cube. I won't reveal all the secrets of this project, but basically, the cube listens to the visitor, looks into its memory and replies. The visitor sees 2 faces of one cube: one shows a living eye, moving/opening/closing in real-time (the eye of a speaking actor), the other show the mouth of the actor, moving will s/he speaks to the visitor. A helmet designed by Luc Courchesne does the image capture of the actor's eye and mouth. A system designed by the University of Montreal does the tracking of the cubes movements, and does a real-time rearranged projection of the eye and mouth on the moving faces of the cubes. See photos for more details.