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M E T A - S P A C ES y n c h r o n o u s U r b a n C o m p u t i n g
The Meta-space is envisioned as an urban area that becomes hyper-public through the use and application of various forms of participatory urban computing. Built on a public satellite internet infrastructure, this concept for Wikitopia imagines new forms of social and political interactions on the basis of a new computational infrastructure that is cit-izen driven, scalable and that bridges the gap between the analogue and the digital aspects of our lives.
In this submission, the concept of the meta-space is visualized through a platform for urban Augmented Reality (AR). Two or more identical urban installations in different cities across the world continuously map their surroundings exchanging spatial information that is visualized by users located within these regions.
meta-space
A student is digitally captured by a Microsoft Kinect and converted to a point cloud. Source: Daniel McDuff, Pixel Vision, a project by the MIT Senseable City Lab
senseable.mit.edu/bits
Private PublicMeta
Exploded axon of AR distribution node
Stainless steelreflective housing
Omni-directional receiver and mainframe
Projection laser array
Infrared camera array
Wide-angle camera array
Service platform
Meta-space furniture (AR distribution node)
1. Urban furniture captures person at location 1
2. Urban furniture proj-ects person at location 2 as digital point cloud
3. Person in location 2 visu-alizes individual through AR enabled glasses
Diagram of inter-connectivity: Urban centers connected through the meta-space and activated by an array of devices, furniture and applications
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New
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paris
Shanghai
Acrilic lit panels
Aluminum multi-purpose seating sculpture