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The
CompuObscura is a self-contained room-sized device modeled
on the idea of the type of room-sized camera obscuras
that were briefly popular around the end of the 1800s.
Large manifestations of camera obscura technology used
a room sealed off to all light, except for a pinhole-sized
“window” in one wall that, over time, allowed
an inverted image of whatever was outside the window
to be projected on the opposite wall. Essentially,
camera obscuras were large pinhole cameras, and
were an early cross between a vaudeville hall, a movie
theater, and a backroom séance.
From the outside, we have designed
our CompuObscura to appear somewhat similar to the ornate
construction of a camera obscura. But inside, the device
is a combination of a digital television studio (with
green-screen capability) and an Internet-channeled video
projection and viewing facility.
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