Mrmr : iPhone + 10.5 + Quartz Composer = Wireless VJ Nirvana
Mrmr is an open protocol for mobile devices. It is used to dynamically create user interfaces on your iPod Touch or iPhone which respond to client apps in a multi-user performance environment.
Okay, that sounds awfully dry. Let’s try that again.
Mrmr lets you control Quartz Composer applications (or really , any compatible OSC implementation)over Wi-Fi from your iPod Touch or iPhone. Now you, too, can dance around like a lunatic while still controlling your visuals from the dance floor. Did we mention it’s multi-user, as well?
Mrmr is the brainchild of Eric Redlinger, researcher-in-residence at Brooklyn Polytechnic University’s Integrated Digital Media Program. He has leveraged the iPhone’s OS X underbelly and 10.5’s new Quartz Composer features to allow this sort of functionality.
I had the lucky* chance to interview Eric and ask him a few questions about Mrmr and the iPhone. Apologies for the quality of the interview, it was very spur of the moment.
Mrmr is a work in progress, but I think the results so far speak for themselves.
*(ok, no so lucky, my desk is right next to his, but somehow I had not seen Mrmr in action until just recently…)
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hiltmeyer.inc
non of the links obove work for me.
would love to see it in action.
waiting since ages for devices (hacks) like these.
greatz hiltmeyer.inc
October 30, 2007 @ 2:05 am
Dan Winckler
The share.dj server is on a network that was having some trouble yesterday. Give it another try.
October 30, 2007 @ 2:45 pm
Peter Kirn
Is the download working yet, Dan? Think the actual file may have not been working, independent from the site…
October 30, 2007 @ 6:59 pm
Ecume
yep - its working more or less like the video shows. with the quartz composer app, most of the functionality is via key-commands rather than buttons in the UI - a gotcha! until you look in the menu options…
October 31, 2007 @ 12:33 pm
Steven
Anybody know how to install the iPhone app for this? I’ve SFTPd it into my iPhone but can’t seem to get it to run.
November 10, 2007 @ 2:26 am
ecume
make sure you change the permissions so that the binary is executable. after I did that it launched fine.
November 25, 2007 @ 11:06 pm
ecume
FYI: new sources and updated binaries are now available! http://poly.share.dj/wiki/index.php/Mrmr
January 19, 2008 @ 4:17 pm
yondertoy
Hi all,
many thanks for this neat stuff ! But is there any ways to get a PPC built version of qcperformer OS X visual synthesizer ? Please !!!
THX !!!
January 26, 2008 @ 9:38 am
lovegroover
This is perfect soloution to the problem of vj dancefloor blues! What im trying to say is we do this for the love of music, visuals and being part of the gig, Yet were stuck in a booth or even worse behind the speaker stack! Id seen Saucereyes do some great stuff with an four channel radio controller for model aircraft wipes and fades on an mx twelve the crowd were passing it around!!! perfect. But will the aka.remote work with i pod touch?
February 16, 2008 @ 1:10 pm
Brian MacMillan
Re: Issue with New UI option, release .001 application builder ver Feb 4 2008 on iPod touch.
I have set the permissions of murmur to execute, i have created an interface in the application builder and connected the application builder to the client (i’m running an ipod touch ver 1.1.1). Bonjour is enabled. When i click on the New UI option the Mrmr client disappears entirely.
1. Does release .001 work on ver 1.1.1?
2. Can i upload the UI to my ipod NOT using the murmur application builder - for example by including the .mrmr file in the .app file.
3. Is there someplace on the ipod where an error message is logged?
Note that nothing is running on my iPod touch prior to my launch of Mrmr.
February 17, 2008 @ 10:42 am
ecume
Hey Brian,
there is a new version at: http://poly.share.dj/source/mrmr_app.zip
1) yes it works on 1.1.1
2) you cannot currently create interfaces except via tcp or udp - handcoding an interface and placing the text file into the mrmr directory is coming soon!
3) you can follow errors by running apps from the command line - works on all apps not just mrmr. For instance, after SSHing into your iPod, type cd /Applications/Mrmr then launch the app by typing ./murmur
these terminal commands are typed into your computer’s terminal, NOT the ipod terminal emulator!
good luck!
February 19, 2008 @ 1:42 pm
vix
I work on this beautiful mrmr with Max/MSP
i can build interfaces, interact with Max but i don’t understand how to set customized png image files to change buttons appearance
anyone knows how to do that ?
May 2, 2008 @ 4:15 am
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