Situated Audio Platform
SAP from russelldavies on Vimeo.
And there’s one mandatory requirement: “No Touch The Screen” – I’d love to build a mobile application that doesn’t demand you stare at and stroke it the whole time. To me the attention-hogging aspects of most games has found perfect embodiment in the AR craze. They want to impose another screen between us and the world. There must be a way to harnass the power of pretending to create something that you can play with while walking around, that doesn’t want you to look at the screen all the time. [...]
So we made a Barely Game prototype – The Situated Audio Platform, a browser for geotagged audio files. The idea is that it only has one button, the whole screen, which you use to switch it on, and then you never have to look at it. You can leave it in your pocket, monitoring the world for tagged files, quitely pinging, while you listen to your music. Then if it detects something, you hold it at your side and sweep the area until you home in on whatever it’s found. You could browse AudioBoo with it, or get it to read geotagged wikipedia files to you.
From Russell Davies’ Playful ’09 presentation.
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