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Layar meets Mimoa / Mimoa meets Layar. Mimoa is an online modern architecture guide. Mimoa is free and open for everyone to contribute: publish your projects, posts comments and ratings, define your personal favorites and keep track of the projects you’ve visited.

I actually think it would be somewhat easy to create this Layar, since they already have such a giant, detailed database with the location of each project. Furthermore, they’re a fellow Dutch startup, just like you guys. And they have projects all over the world (weren’t you thinking about going international?).

Let’s make this happen!

Architectural History Layar, or ArchiLayar. Here’s an example from the architectural history of Amsterdam, the former NHM bank building (what would become the ABN bank and later the ABN-AMRO bank).

The ArchiLayar can provide you with information about when a building was built, the architect, etc. There are much more possibilities of course. In this case the Layar also shows a photo of the architect of the building in question.

This Layar could work in two ways. One way would be just to quickly provide information about a building as you happen to walk by. Another way would be to incorporate a city walk option. This would mean that besides providing you with information about the building you are viewing, there should also be an indication of in what direction to continue to walk. Before you start a city walk you can perhaps select from several options what type of walk you are interested in, for instance:

A Thematic walk – Golden Age, Industrialization, Socialist, Architecture of H.P. Berlage, etc.
B By architectural style – Baroque, Neoclassical, Neorenaissance, Amsterdamse School, etc.
C Based on time: 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th century, etc.
D By architecture types: bank architecture, museums, churches, etc.
E Based on a part of town: Centre, Watergraafsmeer, de Pijp, etc.

The ArchiLayar can then direct you around town based on the type of walk. These are only a few possibilities and I’m sure it can be expanded much further.

Location Based CMS – Augmented gaming/learning Platform
Collaborative Shared Workspace, to stimulate peer learning effects and generate user generated content based on “Digital Storytelling”
webapp based on gps location and compass that delivers content to for instance Layar

Describing the sort of content pages to be delivered on location (by placing these types of info on a layer – googlemashup) with markers that can contain these webpages. These webpages contain different kinds of content modules which can be dragged onto their exact within a web based Location CMS.

Every builded set of pages can be seen as a digital layer > enables you to quickly switch to another grid (layar)

Building of the webpages can be done through a webinterfaces and should preferable be constructed as a teamworkspace. An administrator can give any subscriber the possibility to edit, place and/or delete content. Clicking a marker will reveal a small editable page in the exact dimension of the mobile browser.

Editing of these pages will enable an admin to setup pages on location and attach content to them. Locations can also be used to attach certain action to them which are dependent on orientation and/or speed of the viewer.

Visual lay-out can be skinned through a simple library of css stylesheets that can be selected as a template

Teams can create share and play their layers through a simple personal database) page on which they can invite their friends to play a game….all very web2.0. Activities as recorded in the logs of every creator and/or player and are placed in a database as well. In learning how people will work you can learn how to innovate the offered features and rearrange the way information can be build with for instance graphic timelines that offer true multi media editing for digital storytelling. The results can be visualized through the website or can be delivered as data to a VLE (Virtual Learning Environment)

In a later version we could think of enhancing the reality with 3D objects.

Description of the contentmodules:

• note
can contain:
-text
-audio
-video
-3D content (FUTURE)

• task
-proximity time based challenge (if then statements attached to ACTION)
-take a picture
-make a video

• question
-multiple choice (regular 4 choices)
-yes/no question
-open question (can also be used for delivering comments on location)
-rewardscheme for give good answers that are saved to the users profile

• credits/punishments
- collect gold (earn bonus points)
- lose points
- redirect to a different LAYAR (layer) when encountering an ACTIONmarker . “You’re bound to be imigrated to another Layar”

• hint
- provide users with possible clues
- leave hints for other users

• action
- interact with other users (think of gaming and game strategy)
- redirect to another layer based on ACTIONmarker

• locate/track other users
- show the users on the map and/or on which layer they are
- calculate distance based on user config

• message
- to other users
- read miniticker news (think of CNN) based on player messages and/or rss feed from given url

(Possible) Interested Partners
Ministerie OC&W
Primary Education
Secondary Education
Higher Education (HBO & WO)
Local VVV’s
Gemeente(n)
Provincie
Providers of VLE’s (ItsLearning, BalckBoard, TeleTop, Moodle, Fronter)

Kind regards and keep me posted on your findings