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
Urban
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space Gin
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New
York
Sing
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paris
Shanghai
Acrilic lit panels
Aluminum multi-purpose seating sculpture
