New technologies for media and interactive

• 5 days

• 33,825 Participants

• 1,250 Sessions

• 2,700 Speakers

The big theme

• Storytelling

• Big data

What interested me?

• New forms of storytelling

– Tech based

– Web based

• Computational Photography

• VR and interactive non-fiction

• VR Journalism

Computational Photography

• The camera re-invented

• photography & data

@brondmo

Evolution of cameras

What can tech do?

• Capture data

– light as data e.g. angle of entry, non-visible

– GPS

• Process data

But why?

• Why else do we capture data?

– To understand more?

– Preserving history?

• More immersive experiences

• To see the whole story

• Deep linking

Computation cameras now?

• What about the apps on your phone?

The 2nd brain

What’s ahead?

• Photography and big data

– Geo tagging of images

– Recognition algorithms

– VR integration

– Better mapping

– Storytelling?

A holiday snap

Geo-tagged images

Un-cropping

Interactive and VR

DocLab Presents: New Frontiers for VR and Interactive NonFiction

@casparsonnen @robertoverweg @bchirls

http://www.doclab.org/

Birdly – an immersive bird experience

Flavours of VR

• Computational photography

– 360 panoramas, stills & video

– Rendered on Web & 3D devices

• Synthetic environments

– Recreating places using data

• Hybrid environments

Kit?

Low cost kit

http://elevr.com/

Web VR

Virtual reality football

Real-time data & media E.g. GPS, accelerometers, audio

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Gaming engine E.g. FIFA 2015

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Live VR matches & replay from any POV

Tool-Kit for Crafting an Interactive Documentarieshttp://wapo.st/afterthestorm

http://heliosdesignlabs.com/

• Movie making with code = interactive

• Photoshop, AE, FCP and code

Virtual Reality Journalism?

• Nonny de la Peña– http://www.immersivejournalism.com/

pushing technological boundaries for narrative endeavors

VR Journalism

• Vice News– coverage of the NY protests against police killings