Here’s another reason to come to eComm on March 3-5. and why it is shaping up to be the telecommunications conference this year. We’re going to have the opportunity to listen to, talk and play the Ocarina. It could be the first conference with an Ocarina orchestra. Lee?
All I know is I will now have to practice. That’s the fun part. What’s certain is this is a perfect example of how the mobile paradigm is changing and how people from almost outside the industry are likely to change it. Ocarina is also one of those products that could actually be engineered into every handset. Imagine every Nokia in India with it or the equivalent.
Via the eComm press notifications:
SAN FRANCISCO–Feb. 19, 2009—Computer science researcher and entrepreneur Ge Wang is slated to deliver a keynote address that promises to be one of the most audibly and visibly stimulating sessions at this year’s Emerging Communications Conference (eComm 2009).
Wang, an assistant professor at Stanford University and co-founder, CTO and chief creative officer of Smule.com, will speak on “Creating New Expressive Social Mediums on the iPhone” on the second day of eComm2009, March 3-5 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott Hotel.
In explaining his exploration of the iPhone as a unique platform for creating new expressive, social mediums, Wang will describe and demonstrate his company’s innovative “Ocarina” and “Sonic Lighter” applications. Wang calls them “social sonic artifacts” that, respectively, turn the Apple iPhone into a musical instrument nearly everyone can quickly master, or a synthetic flame that lights the dark and responds to a user’s breath and hand gestures toward the iPhone’s screen.
Wang will relate some of the possibilities to be achieved by taking full advantage of the iPhone’s intersection of technologies – multi-touch, powerful mobile CPU and GPU, full audio pipeline, GPS/location and persistent data connection via 3G/Edge — to provide a unique experience for users that is both expressive on a personal level and social on a global scale.
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