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With 'Road Tales', Volkswagen wants to bring imagination back to where it has always belonged: the back seat. 'Road Tales' is developed for Dutch children between 4-11 years old and can be downloaded for free. The app uses a custom developed story-engine that creates unique tales based on the location of the user. To allow the stories to react to the environment, the Amsterdam based agency has scanned all Dutch highways to identify objects like bridges, windmills, trees, petrol stations and other main objects to transform them into story elements.

"The move towards end-to-end IP between media producers and audiences will make new broadcasting systems vastly more agnostic to data formats and to diverse sets of consumption and production devices. In this world, object-based media becomes increasingly important; delivering efficiencies in the production chain, enabling the creation of new experiences that will continue to engage the audience and giving us the ability to adapt our media to new platforms, services and devices."

"Objects of Immersion"

Diminished Reality video demonstration by Jan Herling and Wolfgang Broll from the Ilmenau University of Technology. The software can remove objects from live video in 40ms per frame.

Object Audio

"Alex Farber reports on four projects designed to improve efficiency and evolve storytelling"

'The future of podcasting is adaptive, open and data ethical' aimed to provide an insight into what podcasting may look like in the near-future, using Object-Based Media. As it turns out, this future is exciting, and may be closer than it seems!

To this day, its labs are cooking up experiments that may completely change the way we consume audio and video, and I went to take a look at them.

"Google Cloud Video Intelligence API makes videos searchable, and discoverable, by extracting metadata with an easy to use REST API. You can now search every moment of every video file in your catalog and find every occurrence as well as its significance. It quickly annotates videos stored in Google Cloud Storage, and helps you identify key nouns entities of your video, and when they occur within the video. Separate signal from noise, by retrieving relevant information at the video, shot or per frame. "

"Separate voice from music out of a song free with powerful AI algorithms"