The video booth is a small room similar in every main aspect to a photo booth (also called photomaton), just like the ones used in public spaces for people to take their own ID format photo portraits. It has an area where the model stands, and a glass window protecting a camera. However, the video booth serves to the purpose of allowing the users to create interactive selfportraits of the kind described in the previous lines, and which are shown in the playback (portrait) component of Frontera.
Using the same kind of technology as the playback booth, the video booth records short video sequences instead of taking pictures. It also records data about the position of the model’s body when a certain take was shot. This information is gathered through a game-like interaction of the model with a graphic interface that guides him though the procedure. After the process that lasts approximately 3 minutes is completed, the user’s mirror image becomes dissociated from him and appears on the playback booth for him or others to interact.