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Betaville!A massively participatory mirror world game!

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M2C Institute for Applied Media Technology and Culture, Bremen, Germany!!

Montreal 2012!!

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!!!!!!!

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!!

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!

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!

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.!

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...!!!

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...!!!

!!!Web-Client:!Radikal Imaginativ!Constant´s New Babylon!!

!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.!!

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.!!

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

The next step is the use of Betaville for collaborative design of urban art for

public spaces:

“The People’s Smart Sculpture”

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

THANK YOU!!!