A company called MegaPhone have just launched a public video game on MTV’s giant screen billboard in Times Square. The game is designed to bring people together in public spaces and you interact using your mobile phone as a controller. Jury Hahn is the Korean born face behind this new public spectacle and she’s profiled [...]
Following on from the watercooler post last week on Second Life running on a Samsung phone it is interesting how in the last month we have virtual worlds appearing on mobile devices at every turn - iPhone etc: below. Will May 08 be known as the month Web 3.0 (the real time, social virtual world [...]
“There’s no question that all my synapses were firing in the virtual world and in real reality.” Margot Knight, alternate-reality game heroine
OK this is old news as far as Watercooler timescales are concerned, June 2007, slaps wrist. But as I have just stumbled across it, worth blogging about for reference, because not many have - [...]
You’ve got to hand it to Nokia (and the agencies who realise their campaigns). This latest campaign for the N82 from Sweden’s farfar enlists the “talents” of an “artist” called Stavros is undeniably silly but irresistable. The passionate Stavros exhorts you to help him “paint the world” starting in Rome which, by his reckoning [...]
A cross-post from the main LAMP blog cause this is cool…
A mini ARG (Alternate Reality Game) with virtual world parallel components as part of the 8th LAMP residential in Marysville, Victoria Australia.
We have been running LAMP residential workshops for nearly 3 years now and on the first day we normally run a team bond/building game. [...]
Those who follow LAMP will know that on the first day of our residentials we play a cross-reality game. A sort of locative scavenger hunt for story fragments in parallel and linked to a similar environment in the virtual world. Great fun and designed to introduce people to the location, bit of team bonding and [...]
A few of us LAMP’ers have had iPhones for a few months. Of course they are currently jailbroken 1.1.3’s - for R&D purposes only
One of my favourite applications is ‘installer’ which is like a portal to a vast array of free, cool (we have to use that word in every post) grass roots [...]
