Vectorform’s NUI Experience for Microsoft Surface Part of Pandemic 1.0

Microsoft Surface is one of the technologies leveraged in the Pandemic 1.0 which is a transmedia experience that can currently be seen at the Sundance Film Festival.

Authored by writer/director Lance Weiler, the Pandemic 1.0 also enjoyed the collaboration of design and technology companies such as Vectorform, which might be familiar to Softpedia readers for all their work done on Microsoft Surface with projects such as The Settlers of Catan and Galactic Alliance HD, the last one for Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft Surface.

“A mysterious virus begins to affect the adults in a small rural town, and the youth soon find themselves cut off from civilization, fighting for their lives.

“How fast is the virus spreading? It is confirmed—the virus has hit Park City. Can you survive?

“Pandemic 1.0, a transmedia storytelling experience, unites film, mobile and online technologies, props, social gaming, and data visualization, enabling audiences to step into the shoes of the pandemic protagonists anytime during the day.

“Mission Control is the only way to learn where you stand in the face of the spreading pandemic,” reads the synopsis of Pandemic 1.0.

Vectorform focused on designing and building a natural user interface (NUI) set up to run on top of Microsoft Surface.

It is because of Vectorform that Sundance attendants can literally witness a pandemic via the Mission Control, with access to details such as live data, immersive media and the social grid.

Additional technologies used in creating the Pandemic 1.0 experience involve Android 2.3 running on 50 Nexus S devices, but also near field communication (NFC) technology from NXP Semiconductors as well as elements of coordinated health systems built after Medic Mobile’s 4636 Project.

Make sure to have a look at the images and video below to get an idea of what Pandemic 1.0 is all about, and see if you can spot the Surface tabletop.