The idea was to create an immersive viewing experience using a huge dome. This dome (6 feet dia) covers the whole view angle of the user, hence the user sees nothing but the projected image or video.

A sphere was generated programmatically using processing and Panoramic Photographs were wrapped on the sphere. These panaromic photos look perfectly stitched from all the sides - which gives a continuos perception of the photograph.
Instead of viewing this sphere from outside, the view point was placed at the center of the virtual sphere (the camera's co ordinates were adjusted so that it was placed exactly in the center of the virtual sphere)

The inner wall of this virtual sphere was projection mapped on the concave part of the dome to enhance the onscreen movements. By using ultra short-throw projectors, occlusion was minimized to give the user an immersive experience.

A web cam was placed on the dome which tracks the fiducial marker held by the user (this marker could also be printed on the user's T shirt ). As the user moves the marker, the virtual sphere gets rotated and the panaromic photos move. The user is able to view the photo in 360 degrees by just moving the marker.

This enables the user to view any part of the photo or video by gestures (or moving around,)
This way the movie can be made interactive as theuser can choose his own frame instead of viewing the frame that the director chooses to show.

The Memory Lane Project is an interactive installation which affords the user to engage with it and find traces of his/her memory in it.

The concept has been developed for the golden jubilee celebration of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad to commemorate everyone who has been a part of the institute. The alumni, therefore, becomes the primary user. The installation focuses on ‘memory’ of the user. Long term memory is majorly visual in nature, and hence everything that the installation serves to the user is visual and not textual.

Essentially, the installation is a grid of photographs which, through its affordance, invites the user to interact with it, and allows him/her to select a one. Photographs enable moments of self-encounter that allows for constructive identity-creation.

Taking leads from the selected one, the installation puts forward a set of related photographs, and thereby offers the user a nostalgic world to immerse in.

The use of Kinect camera enables intuitive gestures like swaying of hand for surfing and spreading arms to open a photograph, thereby making the interaction very natural.

The ludic interface allows the user to play around using gestures. Equally vital is the choice of space for the installation. The tunnel connecting the architecturally distinct campuses of IIM-A, is a metaphor for ‘going back in time’.

This project was awarded "The Best Student Design Project" in Pune Design Festival 2012
http://www.punedesignfestival.org/punedesignfestival_2012/Winners.html