Maptool Projects

Screen shot of a 360 video bubble. There is a prominent tree and the photographers head visible against the blue background from the sky.

STEPS (Sustainable Thinking and Expression on Public Space)

Presented Summer 2020 Rowntree Mills Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Content Types:
 - 360 Video
 - AR video on mobile device
 - Photographs
Technologies:
 - Android Mobile
 - iOS Mobile
 - Maptool
 - Web App
 - YouTube
Audience Experience:
 - Community engagement
 - Geolocated XR content
Development Stage:
 - Community Engagement
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

Locative media map of 360 video/audio content sourced from community engagement.

Screen shot from using Maptool

Andrew Sempere, The Place Lab Ltd.

Presented

Audience Experience:
 - Community engagement
 - Geolocated XR content
Development Stage:
 - Community Engagement
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

An MIT-licensed computational tool for generating locative media projects, Maptool can be used as the basis for locative storytelling.

Dancers in colourful street clothes perform on a public sidewalk near a street car stop in Kansas City.

Presented Jun 10 - Sep 10, 2019 Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA as part of the Art in the Loop

Content Types:
 - 360 Video
 - AR video on mobile device
Technologies:
 - Android Mobile
 - iOS Mobile
 - Maptool
 - Web App
 - YouTube
Development Stage:
 - Community Engagement
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

Choreographer Jane Gotch created a site-specific virtual reality dance at three Kansas City Streetcar stops and a single culminating live performance.

Sharon Reshef, dressed in black, kneels on the grass with her back to the camera.

by Sharon Reshef with Place Lab Ltd

Presented Jun 7 - 15, 2019 Prague Exhibition Grounds, Prague, Czechia as part of the Site Specific Performance Festival, Prague Quadrennial 2019,

Content Types:
 - Binaural Audio
 - Photographs
Technologies:
 - Bespoke Mobile App
 - iOS Mobile
 - Maptool
Audience Experience:
 - Geolocated XR content
 - Mobile app
Development Stage:
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

An interactive sound project that archives the sonic environment of the Prague Exhibition Grounds prior to PQ 2019

Ian Garrett smiles in front of the display of equipment and information for the VR workshop at Albion Library

Kitchenband

Presented Sep 9 - Dec 13, 2019 Albion Public Library, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada

Audience Experience:
 - Community engagement
 - Geolocated XR content
 - Mobile app
Development Stage:
 - Community Engagement
 - Public Performance
 - Workshop

Summary of Project:

Community members and users in the library script scenes and curate ideas to create 10 hauntings that share the story of the community in VR.

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