Track Dance is an app that displays digital light shows from the environment’s music or from your iPhone’s songs. So I took it to a friend’s party expecting to become the night’s Light DJ and the coolest person in the crowd. Oh, was I wrong. The lighting effects were far from being taken as light shows, looking more like those visualization effects that come with Windows Media Player. Worse: the visuals didn’t even seem to follow the music, but rather random.
Track Dance could be one of those apps that make people gather around your iPhone to take a look, but maybe the approach on developing it wasn’t the right one. Opening it up, you pick whether to be the Light DJ (where others connect to your iPhone), go Solo (having a party by yourself) or be a Groupie (the ones that connect to the Light DJ).
The Light DJ-Groupie thing works over a WiFi connection, and it can handle hundreds of simultaneous users. As I wasn’t able to find a rave party in town, I couldn’t check these functions out.
Next thing to do is to choose your FX, then the music source, and you’re all set. Up here you can see the Particles FX following Portishead’s song Machine Gun. Other FX are Strobo, Wave, Spotlight and Text. Using that last one, you can type in some text and then see it flow from right to left on your screen… yes, just as your favorite Windows 95 screensaver.
As I mentioned above, Track Dance dances to your iPhone’s music or the one playing in the environment. Perhaps trying not to be intrusive with the light display, the controls of the app are placed on the far left and are very small, which makes me feel clumsy when trying to manipulate them.
Bottom line is I loved the idea, then be the cool people at parties.
Track Dance is available at the app store for $0.99.
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Disclaimer: This blog post is an entry to Intel’s contest – My India App Story
Check out the Intel® Atom™ Developer Program, if you are looking for an opportunity to build and monetize your applications. You can sell through Intel’s storefront – Intel AppUp Center. Intel has also set up a Million Dollar Development Fund to support developers who are looking at building innovative apps. For more details check out http://appdeveloper.intel.com/fund
Disclaimer: This blog post is an entry to Intel’s contest – My India App Story
