Here’s something from that some folks from Nokia are involved in. Sounds really cool. I’m looking forward to see how it develops. It combines many cool elements: mobiles, Web, people far away, people on the ground, the real world, a large display, Web and mobile tools to track the whole thing, sigh, it’s so cool.
Will it fly?
I’ll check it out next week.
Link: Manhattan Story Mashup.
Manhattan Story Mashup is an urban game, taking place on September 23rd 2006 in Manhattan, New York City. During the event, approximately 250 players will move around Manhattan, taking photos which match a given target. Targets are words from stories, written by you and other visitors on this web site collaboratively while the game goes on. The resulting illustrated stories are shown on large public signs in Times Square in real-time and on this web site.
Manhattan Story Mashup is organized by SensorPlanet, a Nokia Research Center
-initiated research program on large-scale sensor networks. We are
interested in combining the physical and the virtual worlds through new
ways of sensing. As it happens, lots of people always carry a mobile
phone with them, making it a perfect platform for this job. This game
is a cool way to test our tools and theories in practice with a large
number of people. Naturally we’re also interested in sharing fun with
other people in the Come Out and Play Festival, which gathers together many games like this in September.
Oh, dang. I just saw that Jürgen Sheible is one of the designers. I interviewed him for an article a long time ago. Geez, I gots to catch up with him.
If you’re interested, you can read more technical details about the Mashup: http://blogs.s60.com/s60multimedia/2006/09/manhattan_story_mashup.html