The Junkyard Jumbotron lets you use all sorts of devices, and it's web based. You arrange the screens in the positions you want, and each one displays a QR code. You take a picture of them all together, and the Jumbotron breaks the image up in to the right pieces:
Problems I see with that: it requires n+1 devices, it's less intuitive than swiping, and does anybody want to shift around heavy monitors and big screens anyway?
Yes. There are a few other things out there using the name Mosaic, but we went through about a hundred names and really really liked this one, so we stuck with it.
I really like the business model here: Free, simple standalone app that serves as a fun proof-of-concept, supported by a commercial SDK for the inevitable ideas you'll come up with. Smart.
Just wondering on your business model. Do you really expect there would be many people with so many iPhones to use this for the purpose of making a big screen? Because those who don't already have, would probably just buy one big screen IMO...
Congratulations on getting SpeakerBlast to work! We've tried doing that before, but getting the time delay low enough for it to sound good is incredibly challenging.
I can see an ad agency using Mosiac at conference for Point of Sale demo. 100 person ad agency tells their employees, "Hey bring your Ipads to the conference we're gonna use them to create one huge TV for our video demo."
Traffic sensors, temp sensors, sound sensors, flock orientation, record video from multiple perspectives, record audio from multiple perspectives, proximity team gaming....
I expect Mosaic to be a default, obvious tool for all generations.
Set one device as the master - and anyone with a screen can add their real-estate.
What would be interesting would be for the app to have a master push out an audio tone and the slaves would listen for the tone and determine their proximity based on the tone and how well it could hear it...
So just confirming, it's a webapp which would work on all the phones, not just iDevices right? (Asking as you specifically mention iPhone, PC and Mac but not Android)
My only comment is that I don't see much of a real-world use case for it. It strikes me as a one-off or a novelty app that'll be old news as soon as it hits.
Don't take my word for it, though. Hope it gets traction!
Maybe I'm sentimental, but you should rebrand. I think NCSA Mosaic holds a position of antiquity in a lot of hacker minds, and Mosaic is a special name to me.
Or, maybe we'll eventually run out of English words and start recycling anyway, and I should move on. Tough to say.
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http://jumbotron.media.mit.edu/
We just released...
SpeakerBlast - Turn multiple friends' IP devices into one massive stereo system.
Checking out Mosiac ... i wonder what other uses of multiple IP devices can be put to use to?
I can see an ad agency using Mosiac at conference for Point of Sale demo. 100 person ad agency tells their employees, "Hey bring your Ipads to the conference we're gonna use them to create one huge TV for our video demo."
Cool stuff.
I expect Mosaic to be a default, obvious tool for all generations. Set one device as the master - and anyone with a screen can add their real-estate.
What would be interesting would be for the app to have a master push out an audio tone and the slaves would listen for the tone and determine their proximity based on the tone and how well it could hear it...
http://pressurenet.cumulonimbus.ca/
We like Mosiac are bootstrappers so getting our hands on multiple Android devices for testing is a hurdle we'll no doubt overcome in time.
http://seb.ly/2011/09/pixelphones-a-huge-display-made-with-s...
My only comment is that I don't see much of a real-world use case for it. It strikes me as a one-off or a novelty app that'll be old news as soon as it hits.
Don't take my word for it, though. Hope it gets traction!
Or, maybe we'll eventually run out of English words and start recycling anyway, and I should move on. Tough to say.