Locast is an innovative platform for sharing and discovering location-based user-generated videos and production quality multimedia content provided by RAI TV.
It consists of a combination of mobile and wearable computing elements supported by a distributed Web application. Content gathered from RAI TV’s historical archives and user-generated media are linked to physical locations in Venice in order to be accessible to all those visiting the space.
Locast, a joint project between RAI TV and the MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory, shifts the focus from the wide-spread concept of Web 2.0 to the promising scenario of Space 2.0 that keeps the physical and social qualities of the urban space and augment it with the potential offered by pervasive computing.
