Black Marble Interactive LED Floor

Powerful interactivity

The Black Marble interactive LED panels have embedded optical sensors that detect when they have been activated by a foot, hand or really anything that you'd like to place on the interactive panels. High-resolution tracking on the Black Marble interactive LED floor, with 100 sensors per panel and multi-tracking on small surfaces make the interactivity a power tool.

The fast response time of 33 milliseconds and real-time data traffic to the content server make the experience unforgettable.

The Black Marble interactive LED panels use a Brightlogic processor. A single receiver card with a sense processor card per panel control the interactivity and the display. Mix-and-match with standard Black Marble LED panels is possible, using the same receiver cards.

Accessing the Touch Data is easy, making linking to Notch, TouchDesigner or other real-time graphics engines or lighting consoles a breeze.

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Automatic Calibration

The control system for the Black Marble interactive LED floor constantly calibrates the floor surface to make sure it only reports back actual touches and neglects transients, such as dirt, chairs or other foreign objects.

100 Sensors per Panel

In order to make the LED panels fully interactive the 100 optical sensors per panel are all IR sensors, they are unaffected by any ambient light or other IR cameras etc., even by direct sunlight.
The key feature of having 100 sensors per panel is that thousands of sensors can be active at any point in time and the density of the sensors provides very detailed sensing information within 2.3 inches or 6cm. The TouchController can support 100,000+ active sensors every 33 milliseconds, so for very large events or productions where there are hundreds of people on the stage, every sensor is tracked perfectly and you can be sure the visuals are always perfectly positioned and perfectly synchronized. If you think about every sensor having an XY coordinate on a stage, it’s easy to visualize how the sensors interact with the content.

System Requirements

To make your system work you need these components:

ROE Black Marble Interactive Panels
BrightLogic TouchController TCX4
BrightLogic Video Controller VC6
Media Server such as Disguise, Green Hippo, BrightLogic etc.

The TouchController provides touch data in multiple formats, enabling designers and developers to create real-time generative graphics based on the touch data. Keep in mind the Black Marble panels can also be vertically mounted for interactive wall installations.

Content Creation Tools

Content creation tools come in two categories, tools for designers or developers. Designers can use the tools they know, such as Notch and TouchDesigner which both offer a visual yet powerful workflow for creating dynamic content (in fact, Notch and TouchDesigner can be used together as well). For developers looking to program their content using tools such as OpenFrameworks, Cinder, Unity, connector libraries are available for the TouchController and developers can either use the XML API or the NDI Feed from the TouchController.

Creating the WOW Moment

ROE Black Marble floor provides an amazing interactive playground for experiencing fun interactive games. Expand the canvas to include many players, and you have a giant Interactive experience whereas each participants' actions are tracked and displayed both on the floor and wall. Combine this with DMX lighting and surround sound and you have a truly immersive experience.

People love the feeling of knowing they’ve triggered an action or a visual response based on their touch. This is particularly effective when the visual effect is displayed in very close proximity to their feet or hands or bodies. If the content is designed in a way that creates a surprise when touched, there is the “Wow” moment that is created.