create experiences
Create tailored, location-based experiences with Open Locast's web and Android applications.
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Visualize content
Explore and interact with user mapped content through a rich web interface.
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No Data-Plan required
Map videos and photos using Android devices, even in places with limited or no network connectivity.
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Powerful features
Web application:
- Themeable front-end
- Video processing
- Community commenting, favoriting and tagging
- Simple, RESTful JSON API
Android application:
- Interface to map photos & videos
- Display of nearby geo-located videos & photos
- Sync engine for offline media viewing and capture
- Simple tools for working with Android content providers
Locast was born out of a desire by the MIT Mobile Experience Lab to better understand how evolving media technologies could be used to improve connections between people and their social, cultural, and physical spaces. The Open Locast Project itself is a collection of software packages and applications that were developed towards this broad goal.
Open Locast is designed to enable the rapid prototyping and quick deployment of location-based media platforms. It is an open-source project composed of two primary components, a Web application and an Android application which act in unison to provide a platform that can be tailored to fit various user experiences.
The MIT Mobile Experience Lab seeks to radically reinvent and creatively design connections between people, information and physical places. Using cutting-edge information and mobile technology the lab seeks to improve peopleʻs lives through the careful design of meaningful experiences.