Virtual Graffiti II

This is somewhat drier in tone than Gareth's post, but whereas that dealt with the projection of light into a physical space - which isn't entirely a 'virtual' phenomenon - this is perhaps the real thing. HP are pioneering the 'mediascape' - basically using GPS (and other systems such as infra-red) to associate particular locations with digital media such as audio, images, video, interactive content etc...

Taken to its extreme - anyone with a GPS enabled device could digitally 'tag' a particular location... in this case you need to have an iPaq with the relevant software installed to be able to see the content (my cynical side says this is just a way of selling more iPaqs!).

Anyway it just so happens that it's also what I'm going to be working on in my other module... so if anyone wants to try this out I'll hopefully have access to the kit soon and will allegedley have produced my own mediascape in 10 weeks time!