Locast – location based narrowcasting / distributed television

We just received a glimpse at the future of context aware, location based video broadcasting with a project called Locast from the MIT Mobile Experience Lab.  Our initiual reaction to Locast was to contemplate how this project could be used to enhance citizen-media scenarios.  Upon further investigation it became apparent to us that the premise of this project is to find ways augment the physical environment with location-based media. This is the future starring at us inthe face! We can certainly envision ways in which WIKITUDE could be implemented within this project.

“Locast is an innovative platform for sharing and discovering location-based user-generated videos and production quality multimedia content provided by RAI New media. It consists of a combination of Mobile and Wearable Computing elements supported by a distributed Web application. Locast is an innovative platform for sharing and discovering location-based user-generated videos and production quality multimedia content provided by RAI New media. It consists of a combination of Mobile and Wearable Computing elements supported by a distributed Web application. “

For more detailed information on how Locast works visit MIT MEL here: