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Software price 

While most stitching software that we were looking at had trial versions, we needed to learn how to use a program that wouldn't leave a giant watermark on our project during the festival. This ruled out programs such as VIOSO and TorsionBlend, despite some very impressive features.

Incompatibility with Unity, or lack of support for non-presentation applications 

By far the most frustrating part of searching for software that warped our projectors to fit our curved installation was when the program miraculously worked with everything except our demo files. Several times our team managed to get a decent looking projection across the entire installation, only to find that the software was not compatible with Unity and we would not be able to use it for our project. Many of the free varieties of projection warping software were focused on creating presentations, and were not suitable for an interactive application.

Incompatibility with our set up (i.e only support for 2 projectors) 

One of the more tedious parts of setting up our projection was caused by our projector set up. To give some context, here is a rough outline of the physical set-up we were running.

• One beefy computer to handle the demo
• 4 Short throw projectors
• A triple head display port
• A monitor to work from while we were sorting out our projectors
• Enough VGA and extension cables to make several Halloween costumes

Our 4 projectors and 1 monitor lead us to use both VGA ports (triple head taking care of 3 projectors, and the 4th projector getting its own VGA port) and one of the mini-display ports on the back of the computer for the monitor. This meant that the computer recognised 3 different display screens:

1. The three projectors in the triple head
2. The lonesome projector with its own VGA port
3. Our monitor using the mini-display port

This caused lots of confusing when dealing with the different resolutions on all 3 screens, or having the software simply not function when dealing with more than two recognized display screens. Our solution Immersive Desktop Lite 2 has been the easiest to use and thus far as posed no problems with out installation. As of Sunday night we have a working set up for the Imagine RIT festival, and can now move forward with refining our installation.

Photos to come soon.