COLOGNE, Germany – coolux, the creators of the Pandoras Box product family, released their new Pandoras Box Version 5.5 and the Widget Designer Version 4.5. coolux CEO Jan Huewel says, “innovative new features and general user-friendliness lie at the heart of the new releases.”
More details from coolux (www.coolux.com):
“As the feature depth of our Pandoras Box family increases, it is important for us to ensure that new users will find it easier to find their own unique way into the world of Pandoras Box. Version 5.5 offers ingenious features like the 3D projector calibration, the web browser and server integration, as well as extremely useful interface and usability changes that will make an operator’s or programmer’s life a lot easier. The feedback we’ve had from those professionals that have used our release candidate has been positive and encouraging. This version is another step toward making it even easier for our customers to simply use their skills and ideas to create great beauty.”
Some of the highlights of the version 5.5 :
Interactive Content
Users can now access HTML pages and render them as so called “Browser Assets” to make them visible on graphic or video layers. It is also possible to make any layer react to mouse, touch and keyboard input. A new Pointer Layer is available for visualizing mouse and touch events.
Web Server
The newly integrated Web Server adds the ability to host web pages on any Pandoras Box Master system. It also allows remote control of any Pandoras Box system via HTML pages. All PB Automation commands, known from the SDK, can now be executed directly via JavaScript.
Playlist
Playlists make it easy to play a certain number of media files in a row without the need of programming separate containers on the sequence. This can be a huge time saver for producing slide shows or generating video playlists on the fly.
Warper with 3-D Marker Calibration
In addition to third party 3-D object import, it is now possible to attach so called “markers” to them. All one needs to do is define a minimum of four points on a 3-D projection surface, after which one can easily position the corresponding 2-D markers. Based on the physical lens settings, the software will automatically generate the 3-D projector position and orientation.
Watchfolder & Media Monitoring
Automatic media management speeds up content workflow. Any project folder can be set up as a watch folder. Once new content is added to that folder, it automatically distributes across the system for availability.
Player Updates 4K & Particles
Pandoras Box software packages will now support 2-D particle systems. The new 4K Playback support for Player PRO software makes this product the most cost effective 4K playback solution on the market.
New File Format Import
The new Warper now supports .3ds as well .fbx files. All image processing tools now support JPEG2000 import.
Enchanced EDID Management
Pandoras Box QUAD System users can now read out, edit and auto generate custom EDIDs on the fly.
The new Widger Designer Version 4.5, which was also released July 17, reflects the new Pandoras Box feature additions in many ways.
Here are some of the Widget Designer’s new feature highlights:
Mouse & Touch Injection
Camera tracking, AirScan and/or TUIO inputs can now be used to let them directly interact with any Pandoras Box display output.
Gesture Support
Kinect, AirScan or other kinds of multitouch applications can now involve gesture-based actions like swiping etc. more easily.
Remote Tracking for Multiple Airscan, Camera & Kinect Input
It is now possible to collect touch data from a large number of input sources, to make massive multidevice tracking scenarios even more precise.
New PB Menu & PB Remote
The new menu consists of an FTP Server & Client for managing or uploading files.?PB Remote now features advanced system monitoring and file management.
