Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser is a telepresence art installation where live webcam images from Denmark, Amsterdam, Berlin, and Holland are projected onto small 3D models of the territory the cams are capturing. It reminds me of experimental videoconferencing systems I've seen where the faces of the conference participants are projected onto featureless "heads" to enhance realism. Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser was created by Markus Kison, a digital media student at the Universität der Künste Berlin. From the project page:
To make the projection fit on the models, the architecture of the webcam-places was rebuild in a 3D-application and printed on a 3D-plotter. That way, the picture information is displayed on the same geometrical shapes, it is filmed from. The result are four "live-models" from a distant space, which can be regarded three-dimensional and are touchable. With this material manifestation, the transmission, in contrast to the usuall webcam, where transmission is not finished, is completed.
Link (via We Make Money Not Art)
