Archive for 2008
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.
Neo Arena Group on LinkedIn (7.8.2008)
Neo Arena Group on LinkedIn welcomes all innovative digital media researchers, developers and/or geeks to join our ‘channel’. Joining will allow you to find and contact other Neo Arena members on LinkedIn. The goal of this group is to help members:
- Reach other members of Neo Arena
- Accelerate careers/business through referrals from Neo Arena Group members
- Know more than a name - view rich professional profiles from fellow Neo Arena Group members
- Create new success stories - Opportunity for Neo Arena Partnership.
The Benefits of Partnership are for:
- Technical Evaluators: You will learn how to communicate with Content Creators and how to produce good technical solutions for multichannel environment
- Content Creators: You learn how to design and produce content to multichannel environment
- Business Oriented Partner: You will understand the business possibilities of multichannel environments
Here’s the link to join:
http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/153374/7E1C1438640D
Hope to see you in the group!
Scan Code with Your Camera Phone (7.4.2008)
Now it’s easy to tune to Neo Arena. Just scan the two-dimensional matrix barcode with your camera phone to find the channel. The code on the web site leads you to the service which is definitely worth visiting: Neo Arena’s launched mobile optimised web service. If you own Nokia N93, N93i, N95 or E90 cell phone, you just have to click the barcode reader open and scan the datamatrix.
Nokia has combined two innovations, phone camera and 2D codes to the advantage of mobile users. Mobile codes are like ordinary barcodes but their structure can hold more information. The datamatrix can hold information such as link, phone number, email address and/or bare text.
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