Mobile World Congress (3.3.2009)
GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009
Neo Arena was represented at annual GSMA Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona, Spain. Project Manager Kimmo Paajanen and Mobile Researcher & Consultant Jussi Kangasoja were delegates in several seminar and congress sessions focusing on i.e. M-Payment, Mobile Broadband and Mobile Internet.
Speakers in sessions (in addition to the Tuesdays keynotes by Steve Balmer (Microsoft), Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo (Nokia) and many others) were high ranked such as Josh Silverman (Skype), Vic Gundotra (Google) or Sol Trujillo (Telstra).
Animation series Pojat (“The Boys”) is the first launch of the Format pilots by Neo Arena. (16.2.2009)
Pojat is an animation series created by Alpakka Media. Two three-minutes-long pilot episodes are produced with Neo Arena’s support. Pojat is a story of imaginary plays of two boys.
Format pilots aims to develop non-fictive commercial TV formats and market them for TV channels. Project also strives for exploiting not only traditional distribution channels but also new media like digital TV network, internet and mobile platforms.
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New Technological Solutions to Benefit Neo Arena’s Pilot Companions (27.10.2008)
Neo Arena, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have in conjunction with Akravideo developed Videoeditor, a technological solution which can isolate separate video feeds from singular video shots by enabling zooming in on multiple details. By using the Videoeditor one camera footage feels like a multi camera set-up. This enables versatile live video broadcasts in a cost-efficient manner. Neo Arena’s pilot companions are entitled to the use of the Videoeditor. (Akravideo, the owner of Videoeditor, issues the licenses).
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The Findings of Neo Arena Published as Wiki (24.9.2008)
Neo Arena has collected the findings of its first work packages into a single volume. The Multichannel Distribution Toolbox provides the backbone for successful multichannel distribution platforms and it also clarifies a great deal of the contextual and technological terminology involved. However, new experiences and wider views appear continuously as the technology keeps evolving. Therefore the Multichannel Distribution Toolbox is published in an electronic wiki-version at the address: http://wiki.neoarena.fi/en.
Interaction and the simplicity to make changes make wikis efficient tools for collaborative writing. It is easy to keep facts up to date. If you feel that you could help us develop The Multichannel Distribution Toolbox, please contact us at Neo Arena in order to obtain rights to update wiki.
Research Pilot on the Air Guitar World Championships (12.8.2008)
Neo Arena and Oulun Music Video Festival (OMVF), KalevaPlussa and the Pikisaari unit of Oulu Vocational College (OSAO) combine forces for a live broadcast from the Air Guitar World Championships. The production is a part of the pilot agreement between Neo arena and OMVF.
The objective of the pilot is to test cost efficient multichannel distribution of OMVF’s core event – the Air Guitar World Championships in order to receive global publicity. The pilot research tests whether the present media school co-operation with OSAO Pikisaari could yield such quality content with commercial potential
The live broadcast can be viewed on www.omvf.net August 22, 8:20 PM (GMT 2). The event is shot by Pikisaari multicam crew and directed by Karoliina Lehmikangas. Neo Arena tests producing a platform-free Flash stream alongside with the traditional Windows Media, Quicktime and mobile streams. The Flash stream can be watched with any computers running on Windows, Mac or Linux operating systems, as long as the web browsers have support for Flash.
