a Multimodal Authoring andGaming Environment forLocation-based coLlaborativeAdveNtures

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

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The consortium

http://www.magellanproject.eu