Description
The Art Deco iMac Cozy is a CNC-fabricated facade built around an old iMac, designed to house a pair of sensors while giving the whole setup a distinct visual identity. It serves as a proof of concept for the forthcoming Controller v4 — testing how a purpose-built enclosure can integrate sensing hardware cleanly into an interactive Unity installation.
Sensors
The facade conceals two sensors: an Intel RealSense 3D camera, mounted at the top of the unit, and a Tobii Eye Tracker, positioned along the bottom edge of the monitor. Together they give the Unity backend a rich picture of whoever is standing in front of the screen — their physical shape and depth via the RealSense, and precisely where they’re looking via the Tobii. Both feed into Unity in real time to drive the visuals.
Fabrication
The facade was cut from Ultralight MDF on a CNC machine, continuing the same fabrication approach used across the Controller series. The angular, layered geometry of the Art Deco design translated well to CNC — the sharp facets and stepped profiles are the kind of shapes the process handles cleanly.
In Action
With the sensors feeding data into the Unity backend, the installation responds in real time to the person in front of it. This proof of concept validates the sensor integration and enclosure approach ahead of the full Controller v4 build.