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News Telescope

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Link to the Goldsmiths Media Research Programme's

Mediatisedview project overview

 

 

NEWS TELESCOPE

A fixed public device which allows people to view news from around the world in the form of RSS feed content displayed

on screen. The news is chosen and acquired by physically interacting with this device; moving the telescope part of it, so as to train sights - set direction and distance - in order to focus on and pick up news from a particular  geographical location.

Keywords

Signpost/Pointer (direction/distance/location)

Telescope (Focus/point of view)

Rifle sights (arc/trajectory/target/distance)

concept 1

A screen based 3d plane (elevated fixed viewpoint) with horizon line augmented with

floating arrows indicating RSS feeds available.

RSS flags open into

a.Headlines

b.Descriptions

c.Links to rich media

concept 2

Lecturn

Similar to angled glass plate public address auto cue systems.

Essentially a rotating lectern with a floor mounted, upward facing digital projection

hitting a clear plate tilted at a 45ยบ angle to the viewer. This allows a panoramic

field of vision to be augmented with digital content 'in-view'. A separate navigation

device allows the reader to select elements laid over real world locations through

the lectern and obtain RSS content relating to the building or space that is tagged

with content in the augmented view.

 

concept 3

Totem signpost

 

Photos of the prototype below;

photos of the News Telescope

 

And a video of the rotating potentiometer connected to a sample and working

(Youtube video)

 

Keywords- Orientation, Channels, Distance, Direction.

A lino disc on the ground indicates global places and distances viewable with laser

cut text and arrow signage graphics.

A totem pole sits in the centre of this with stacked collars, each holding a protruding

element/device that allows readers to set the incoming content by

physically moving or reading the elements. Largely this involves rotational sensing within

base of the unit. The whole signpost rotates within the base,

but also sliding/rotating/clicking/listening elements are considerations.

Interference is simulated between feeds being selected giving the feeling of 'tuning in'

to the feeds. This is perhaps extended to integrate a sound scape around which the

reader moves, incorporating a podcast feed, contextualized by title search, that plays

relating to news items concerning the chosen location.

This Totem is extensible in that it allows for further devices developed to be 'stacked'

on the pole and exchanged with other elements.

These could include;

 

A trace sandbox

An element placed at the base of the signpost in which items that have previously been

viewed are displayed, allowing an audience led content aggregation to be viewed by

subsequent readers.

 

Twitter feed (or any live content text feed)

A simple digital readout scrolling or displaying twitter feeds (short messages fed from

the Twitter social network) that relate to the readers chosen location.

This adds a layer of audience generated content relating to news items/locations

chosen by readers of the news telescope.

Twitterfeeds have the inherent property of being contextually sourced (relating to

location/time etc.) using XML keywords contained in their text through the Twitter open API.

 

Visualisation of the view thrown from the totem signpost occurs on a underside projected

angled viewing screen, where the RSS content is also viewed.

Distance is projected to a sliding scope mounted at eye level, also receiving content,

in the form of a list of distances available from the single underside projection.

The signage showing the location being visited by the reader sits atop the pole,

also underside projected, all acheived by focusing the projections seperate elements

using fresnel lenses placed at appropriate distances between the projector and the surface

receiving the media.

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