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Melodius Walkabout
March 31, 2005

Melodious Walkabout, by Richard Etter, is a wearable system that guides a user by contextualizing audio contents s/he is listening to. The system doesn't use speech and allows
the user to listen to her/his own audio content while being aware of the location of the destination. With Melodious Walkabout, instead of maps and directions you just put on headphones and select your destination and favorite songs on your PDA. The music begins and audio content reaches you from a certain direction. The direction of the virtual sound source unobtrusively tells you in which direction to go. Melodious Walkabout consists of:

1. A Bluetooth GPS-receiver.
2. A GI System that calculates the direction and distance to the destination.
3. An Auditory Display that renders personal audio contents in real-time according to the GIS.

Maybe not that straightforward then!

Via we make money not art

Thought I'd better create of list of stuff to do first, before I forget...
Tomoko Takahashi: Serpentine Gallery until 10 April
Matisse, His Art and His Textiles: Royal Academy Until 30 May
Theatre O: Barbican until 7 May
Turner Whistler Monet: Tate Britain until 15 May
Christian Marclay: Barbican until 2 May

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