i Cinema T Visionarium

This Friday I plan to visit and will report back on the University of NSW iCinema T Visionarium. Its an interactive 360 degree tv environment in which 300 brief clips and images amongst 20,000 collected by the designers to give you choice in viewing and an experience of related images and themes depending on what you've chosen as the main viewing.
Use the handheld pointer to select a window and it enlarges, activating the audio stream. Press buttons to alter the values of seven criteria (eg. motion, communication) and the "screens" will reshuffle as the software displays the most relevant clip, surrounding it with examples of similarly classified footage. And in the same way a good thesaurus offers antonyms as well as synonyms, the other side of the room will show clips "opposite" to your criteria.
The UNSW details the system here and the iCinema guide with details of the opening hours for Sydney Festival patrons is here.
I'm interested in how the ideas could be applied with about 0.01% of the budget and equipment but look forward to whatever the experience brings. I found some similar sounding entries on youtube but am yet to view any... more after the actual visit!!