Under Construction...

Now that we have a few new goals and directions. Dean would like for me to post what those first goals are.

Beyond the Exhibit.
Taking an existing exhibit at the DMA and extending it to areas that are not available. For example their mummy is on display. We can create the dig site where it was found. Tim and Brian are working on first round. Lords of Death game creating it full size.

Main Structure
Now that we have a design, we will be creating a structure that brings all the islands together. Myself and Bobby are heading this up, along with Tim and Brian.

Microblogging/guestbook object

http://whatbook.tumblr.com/

using Steve's e-mail script I set up a system by which anyone can message this object and create a post on a blog.

edit: the comments can get quite mature

The object is on "what" island

USC Projects

Here are the links to USC's Media Lab projects. There is some overlap between them.

Mobile

Games

Immersive

twitter fountain in Second Life

now maybe we can get Dan & Dave Parry in SL!
new world notes entry on this

The Real, the Web, and the Virtual

Hi, here is a framework for research regarding our efforts. If it gets annoying to read via Tumblr, let me know and I'll email you the document.

Here it is

Walking in Second Life & NYC

this is a project from last year's Conflux Festival :

"A simultaneous walking tour for Second Life avatars and real people, connected to each other by a pair of walkie talkies. One operating from the Second Life virtual world, the other running on any internet enabled mobile phone."

Second Life goes semi-mobile

http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/340/C11804/

Face Detection via Qik

Job interviews in SL

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/397921/have_a_job_interview_in_second_life.html

Augmented Reality Game for Android

A first glimpse of a game for the so-called Google phone includes "WiFi Army", a first-person shooter that's a mash-up of laser tag and the parlor game Assassin.

From Forbes:

Participants meet on the street (using Google Maps) and "shoot" each other with their phone cameras. Those with the highest number of "unique kills" earn points and bragging rights. As the name suggests, players can form "armies" of up to 100 people.

The game is the brainchild of 23-year-old Chicago entrepreneur Peter Wojtowicz, who goes by his screen name, Peter Whatanitch. He describes WiFi Army as "augmented reality," meaning it brings aspects of virtual reality, such as the concept of an online army, to the real world. Its blend of GPS, wi-fi networking and Google applications points up Android's potential to reshape mobile phones and the way people use them.

Sound familiar?