MAGELLAN · a Multimodal Authoring and Gaming Environment for Location-based coLlaborative...
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MAGELLAN
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PROJECT OVERVIEW
03/03/2015
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The Vision
The next revolution in computer games is ‘multi-participant’ and ‘location-based’
Radically different from traditional games or their mobile equivalent
Blend both real and virtual worlds in the form of augmented or mixed realities
Involve multiple participants collaborating or competing in interactive experiences
A new and immense playground for creative souls
«The world around you is not what it seems » (INGRESS: left, Magic Leap: right)
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The Vision
A wide range of applications with huge impact potential
Education, tourism, cultural heritage, entertainment, training, marketing, social networking, …
Significant technical challenges prevent creative people from creating such experiences
The many technologies that must be mastered tocreate multi participant location-based experiences
Multi-participantLocation-based
Experience
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Objectives
To develop a European platform for the intuitive creation of multi-participant location-based experiences
unleashing the creativity of people
establishing a web platform aggregating a community of authors and participants
for cost-effectively authoring, publishing, executing, and experiencing location-based games
targeted at both skilled professional authors, but also at everyday authors without deep technical skills
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Early Results
The MAGELLAN authoring tool: the first interactive storytelling tool for theintuitive creation of multi-participant mixed reality location-based experiences
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Early Results
The MAGELLAN Natural User Interface : a novel customisable tangible interfaceto intuitively control and animate a MAGELLAN experience
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Early Results
The MAGELLAN Experiencing System: a mobilesystem embedding innovative Augmented Realityalgorithms and a new indoor localisation technology
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Pilot trials
Tourism: participate in a massive treasure hunt in Greece
Entertainment: Raise your own tribe in London
Cultural Heritage: Interactively visit historical sites in Czech Republic
Art: Find, collect and exchange virtual records during music festivals in Spain
Education: Play the environmental detective and monitor the air quality in Germany
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Potential Custom Demo
With MAGELLAN, you can turn your building, your exhibition, your site, your town, your region or even the whole world into your playground Involve colleagues, friends, customers, tourists, visitors in mobile
collaborative experiences Build communities and share knowledge and culture