Betaville! A massively participatory mirror world game!!! M2C Institute for Applied Media Technology and Culture, Bremen, Germany!! Montreal 2012!!

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1 Betaville A massively participatory mirror world game M2C Institute for Applied Media Technology and Culture, Bremen, Germany Montreal 2012

2 WHO I AM - TODAY S PRESENTER MARTIN KOPLIN Managing Director / CEO M2C Institut für angewandte Medienforschung an der Hochschule Bremen M2C Institute for Applied Media Technology and Culture, University of Applied Sciences Bremen

3 WHO WE ARE PARTNERS IN BETAVILLE THINK BETA Evolution of Smart Cities European research think tank with 19 member institutions from the Baltic Region BETAVILLE Over 27 associated member institutions from Europe, USA, Asia OPEN LINE STUDIO For Soft City Waterfront Design in New York, Bremen, Toronto, Instanbul, Busan, Gdansk, Montreal

4 WHAT TO DO? Visions // New Urbanity // Smart City // Participatory Design // Social Dynamics // Smart Citizens // Urban Development Processes // Urban Art // Green Agenda Art // Green Technology // Gaming // Media Art // Public Social Sculptures // New Ways of Cultural Expressions // Participation Tools // Mobile Augmented Reality // Mobile Media // Art&Science Research // New Social Movements // Workspace Changes // Virtual Work // Urban Re-design // Gaming Skills // Diversity // Cooperate Culture // Virtual Teams // Intercultural Innovation and Design

5 OUR VISION A city designed by its inhabitants. Participatory art and collaborative design with social dynamics. Using skills from daily media use. Integration of green agendas and other interdisciplinary approaches

6 THREE PARTS OF BETAVILLE SMART CITIES 3D World for Participatory Urban Design Augmented Mobile Applications 3D Touch Table Participation Tools 3D Participatory Interior Design Tool SMART CULTURE Public Social Sculpture // Participation // Art on the Road Visions // Digital Green Art SMART HUMANS Participatory Urban Re-design // Diversity and Intercultural Resources // Participation Skills // Virtual Teamwork // Skills from daily media use.

7 BETAVILLE MIRROR WORLD by Carl Skelton Betaville is an open-source multiplayer environment for real cities, in which ideas for new works of public art, architecture, urban design, and development can be shared, discussed, tweaked, and brought to maturity in context, and with the kind of broad participation people take for granted in open source software development...

8 BETAVILLE MIRROR WORLD Betaville is an open-source multiplayer environment for real cities, in which ideas for new works of public art, architecture, urban design, and development can be shared, discussed, tweaked, and brought to maturity in context, and with the kind of broad participation people take for granted in open source software development...

9 Web-Client: Radikal Imaginativ Constant s New Babylon

10 Mobile-Client by M2C Institute and Hochschule Bremen, Prof. Helmut Eirund and Prof. Thorsten Teschke, Augmented Reality On the mobile platform we have developed an Android application. Within the app we have integrated frameworks that help displaying the 3D models.

11 Touch Table-Client by M2C Institute And Hochschule Bremen, - camera-based optical sensing system FTIR - 46 inch LCD monitor - Infra red light points are produced when a user touches the interactive surface. - These points are received by two cameras at the bottom of the table. - The open source software Community Core Vision (CCV) is used to convert the recorded infra red light points into events which can get processed by our application.

12 Tablet-Client by M2C Institute and Hochschule Bremen, - Android client - Still under development...

13 The next step is the use of Betaville for collaborative design of urban art for public spaces: The People s Smart Sculpture

14 The sub-projects are: Express your self/city in Bremen, Germany 4D Virtual Urban Art in Bitola, Macedonia. COOL technologies and participatory art in Olso, Norway Digital Ground - Electromagnetic images of urban spaces in Kristianstad in Sweden Epic Mod - Worldmaking in Kristianstad Ambients Spaces in Kristianstad Bicycle Stories in Kristianstad and Bremen Trails of Memory in Dusseldorf Citylines - Mnemonic stories for urban city navigation in Dusseldorf VisualizeYourCity in Dusseldorf New Life for the Gdansk Shipyard in Gdansk Rememberti in Bremen

15 THANK YOU