WorldTV Demo

A mockup of the WorldTV television app. WorldTV is a television app (with an accompanying mobile app) for browsing user-generated video from one's social circle, as well as event video produced by strangers that tie into one's news and cultural interests. Instead of using traditional browsing methods -- scrolling through channels or searching for videos -- the proposed service uses a 3D globe as a navigational device. WorldTV was conceived and produced by Giacomo Summa, Jongmoo Park and Ian Lamont for MAS 571 (Social Television, a class offered at the MIT Media Lab). The video was demonstrated at the Media Lab in May 2011. I hacked the interface in Google Earth, and we shot all of the video ourselves, with minimal Fair Use content from YouTube as part of our academic project. Music is by Broke For Free, using a Creative Commons 3.0 license (see credits at end).

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Social networks
• television
• Google Earth
• media
• demo