Hewlett Packard continues it's leading role in the location based experience/products/services community by offering a toolkit that allows anyone to become a mscape designer/developer. Go to mscapers.com, download the toolkit and try it yourself. (you will get the mscape player as part of the toolkit)
Ofcourse you can go to mscapers.com to download the player and some mediascapes (including some nice games) and play the on your PDA.
Experience mediascapes for yourself on your own PDA with the this easy to use, good looking mscape player designed by pieter diepenmaat design. Or design and build your own mediascapes with what can be called the Flash of location based experiences; the mscape toolkit.
Got a change to sit down and talk to Atau Tanaka (Newcaste University, formally of Sony Research) about the neXus concept. Since Atau has also been working on location based sound experiences he was very interested in the project. Atau expressed his liking of using no visual display and relying on 3D audio and tactile feedback for information about the virtual part of the game world. He enjoyed the video and also liked the gestural interaction, but based on hands-on experience expressed his concerns about the amount of effort it would take to make the 3D audio work well enough to provide the experience shown in the video. After discussing what would be achievable in the next five years, we agreed upon the need for prototyping to take next nexus step.
After presentations at Delft Technical University and HP-Labs as part of my Masters of Science Degree, I was invited to present the neXus at the first mediascape conference. In between presentations by mediascape authors, publishers and researchers, the neXus provided many in the audience with a new look at what the future of mediascape experiences might look like.
