http://www.mscapers.com/msin/ABA0000053
GPS game. Pick a place to play where nothing much you find obvious. Then audience find a mening, where they are going, from the field or beach.
It is interesting to investigating or find some meaning from blunt place. There is a role in this game so that people know it has a life and meaning at some points they pick. When there is some role exist, the game gets more interesting. I like those role as closer to the place but has some different perspective.
I really enjoyed our bluetooth project. It took a while to figure out how to convert files on a computer to files recognizable by our phones, but it was worth the effort. In the end it took a lot of testing to see which files would be accepted and recognized, JPG, MP3, MP4, and 3GP were the files I was able to use. However the IPAQs didn’t work with the MP4 or 3GP file formats, so we couldn’t see our project on them.
I wanted to know more about how secure bluetooth was, and came across this site: http://trifinite.org/, which has a variety of tools showing the vulnerability of bluetooth; but this site is a bit old, and many of these exploits may possibly already be fixes.
I plan to make a few more videos in the future, so that I can send them to my friends. I have already sent a few pics to friends using bluetooth, and more and more people are getting bigger and better phones that can handle graphic heavy video and play loud sound…
Here’s a really cool project that uses Bluetooth in a visual way.
http://www.jasonbruges.com/
http://www.redremote.co.uk/whitewing/switchedon.html
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2007/03/switched_on_london_bridge_bluetooth.html
It tracks the location of a bluetooth device as it travels across London Bridge, and represents that movement through colored lights along the bridge. It also seems to use the information to represent that travel distance/time in colored lights on the neighboring Tower Bridge. It is interesting how the different websites focus on different aspects of the project. The very bottom of the third link has video and an image of the sign they used to encourage participation. Besides being locative and bluetooth-y, it is also rather pretty…
(on a side note, Jason Bruges’s website is cool)
http://networkedpublics.org/mito/blog/oshare_majo_rockman_and_the_future_of_location_based_entertainment
http://osharemajo.com/intro/way.html
Sega made a game for children beauty game. They can wear whatever they want. Many of their clothes like some Japanese animation characters. Then they can dance wherever they choose from. It is like a magic mirror that I used to play as a kid. All the stages that they choose are places that they get attention. Audience can virtually experience different scene that they can not get in, and they are idols in all of those stages.
Regarding one of our former class discussions regarding bluetooth tracking, I’m noticing more stories about law enforcement using bluetooth to track people. Most of these stories are comming out of London. Though some of the stories are short, most of them seem to be on the cautious side. England itself is one of the most video monitored societies in the world, and ‘big brother’ is looking for all the help it can get to monitor all of its citizens. Personally, it is kind of creepy when a socitey goes as far as to monitor all of its people by camera, but now with bluetooth, Londoners are going to be giving away intimate details about who they are and the places they’ve been as technology becomes better suited for the government to look at all of its citizens.
by: Iain Mott, Marc Raszewski, and Jim Sosnin
I found another sound oriented locative project: http://www.reverberant.com/SM/index.htm. It produces sound that relates to “tilt, azimuth and forward and backward velocity”.
I thought this was interesting, because the technical aspects of the sensors seem to be fairly basic, yet still provide a variety of interaction information. Technology that must travel with the user also takes a form that I haven’t seen in other locative projects, which is rolling luggage. It also uses a more accurate GPS system called a Differential Global Positioning System, which uses “an additional radio receiver that receives an error correcting broadcast from a local base station.”
My project will impose a science fiction adventure story onto our familiar landscape through gps and mediascape. Each location the listener visits will trigger a new section of this ”action”-packed story that will encourage some form of user participation (ie interacting with objects in the real environment, or walking/running to a specific location. With the use of jarring sounds and sudden changes in events, I hope to keep the experiencer on their toes.
This story should have a strong narrative and be moderately linear, but I also want to try to give the user a sense of control over the outcome with certain choices of direction or ways to succeed or fail in certain tasks. I would also like to have the possibility of a literary death for the experiencer of something goes tragically wrong.
I would like this to be an emersive experience where the line between reality and story must compete for attention, and allow the experiencer the option of rejecting their familiar world and its social expectations (people should be able to say “I look weird out here, running around with all this equipment, and I don’t care”).
Main equipment will be GPS, IPAQ, and headphones, and SFSU’s buildings and spaces. Additional stuff will include physical objects to interact with. I would also involve a web component If I could think of a meaningful and viable way to incorporate one.
For our final project we are proposing to do a mediascape project that incorporates a “choose-your-own-ending” type of story. We will also incorporate the use of web pages and web design. How this will work is that the user will step into a physical space, an audio file will give choices of directions to go based on which portion of the story you will follow. When you get to the next place, there should be some sort of marker to signify that you have reached the correct destination and will give a web address with more of the story, also another audio file will give new instructions for the next location.
Our story is loosely going to give some type of narrative about traveling, some information about other cultures including their dances, their food, and their primary religious practices. The user will have choices as to which cultures to follow. Our story will be laid out on campus out of convenience, but the physical space will have no true bearing on the story. The user will need a PDA, GPS with Bluetooth, 2 pairs of headphones, a laptop with WiFi, and a partner to enjoy the story with.
So for my final project I want to use the geocash and the media scape to come up with something fun. Maybe I’ll tell a story about me and the things you listen to while you walk around well reflect that. I was also thinking of some kind of adventure with music and sound effects to help you get into the fantasy of it all. Either way the store about me would be something funny that’s happen to me or the adventure would be light hearted and maybe even funny. My objective is to have the people that do this have a good time.
My theme for a final project is to pick up and record my body signal everyday. Since body and mind influence each other very well, I want to know more about my body environment so that I can have healthier mind.
My method for this project is using GPS, Goggle map and body map. I will file my information describing what is going on with me biologically. That information will be on the map so that they can look at them. The audience can experience the sound of my experience of my body while they are walking around based on my map.
My goal for this project is to be more aware of our body environment in order to prevent accident.
