Folk is a physical computing system: reactive database, programming environment, projection mapping. Instead of a phone/laptop/touchscreen/mouse/keyboard, your computational objects are physical objects in the real world, and you can program them inside the system itself. Folk is written in a mix of C and Tcl.
Is this the spiritual successor to dynamicland?
It seems super cool. I wonder if the hardware exists to make something like this wearable so the projector/camera go around with you. Multiplayer might be difficult in that context but some sort of open actor system might work.
Omar Rizwan worked on Dynamicland before.
There are picoprojectors, I think. It would be an interesting project, if you use it together with a phone that has a camera.
Bret Victor seems to propose the physical interaction on a single physical place /table. I was thinking that maybe we could use the table metaphor and link multiple physical tables and treat them as one, meaning that the physical objects would just be pointers to ui elements.
Of course, we could have a completely digital table linked to the physical ones as well, for those that do not have the equipment.
They’re doing some tests with a portable projector, not really at the wearable state yet tho
