screenleap is a new screen sharing service with great features. Already the fact that beside Java being a precondition to launch a session there is no software installation required makes the service remarkable. Furthermore the service works with every device so screens may become shared on smartphones and tablet computers. Another great feature is that more than just user may participate in a session, which becomes started by sharing session id’s. For more visit screenleap.
There are a lot of social media aggregators on the market, some to create online presences, some enabling the central access to messages and some to manage the whole social networking. Here are two services with new functions.
dooid is a social media aggregator enabling to create profiles referring to social media accounts and other activities on the web. The service exists already for a while and has introduced new functions lately. Beside the various options to enrich the profile pages with lifestreams and video the multi channel functions are most convenient meaning that the profile pages are facilitated to become accessed from any devices, on the web, by smartphones and on tablet computers. The profile pages are personalizable and may include even qr codes or vcards. Here is an overview of the new functions provided by dooid.
New and for the particular purpose of job search is resumUP.com, an aggregator enabling to create resumes for the purpose of job applications. By this resumUP.com is serving the trend on social recruitment on the social web. To do so the service is equipped with two portals, one for job searchers and one for enterprises. To create profiles the service is using interfaces of social networks to create timelines especially designed for job search, which do include education, particulars skills and other relevant information like hobbies. For more visit resumUP.com.
A lot happens in the entertainment industry, the possibilities are endless and all is just a matter of concepts and realization. In this article exceptionally the talk is not about the internet but digital media beyond the online world, which nevertheless do depend on each other regarding interactivity and by relying on computers and networks.
The first project is an entertainment parc in Korea, which envisions the phrase about concepts and realization made above by its dimension and investment. The so called Live Park is described by the term 4d avatar theme park, which comprises a combination of virtual avatar worlds and cinetic applications tranforming the movements of people into movements of their personal avatars. The cinetic component is realized by Kinect, the same technology used by the Xbox game console. Visitors at first create an avatar and than move their avatar throughout the entertainment parc.
Another phenomenon made in Asia is Miku Hatsune, a virtual figure and singer. This figure becomes real without being a real person by a virtual reality projection. This virtual figure is filling real concerts with great success by selling out its events very fast. The texts of the music are created within communities making it a social media phenomenon at the same time. It is both fascinating like the entertainment parc mentioned above and a bizarre scenery by the fans hailing their virtual star.
A project similar to the Live Park in Korea exists in the swiss town Basel. The approach here is conversely by providing a helmet manipulating a real environment. By wearing the helmet people experience a psychedelic landscape arosen from a common parc, where people are walking through in real. The transformation of the real landscape happens by an augmented reality toolkit provided by lifeClipper3.
Last but not least another kind of augmented reality application realized for a photo exhibition, the Project Paperclip. This project is a real photo exhibition by the photographer Nuno Serrão. The photo exhibition is enriched by an audio application automaticly generating synthetic landscapes varying by the location of a listener and influenced by other environmental factors like the number of people in a room and the noise of these people. The idea beside the phenomenon of the installation is to keep the attention of people and to create a mood independently of the individual association of the viewers.
