CYBERCULTUS SOCIAL AND IMMERSIVE MEDIA

CORE BUSINESS

Cybercultus focuses on providing the TV entertainment industry and the multimedia cultural heritage and tourism sectors with innovative digital content solutions by inventing the RAMO «Reactive and Adaptive Multimedia Objects» semantic layer that insulates content producers from the technical complexity of interactive and user immersive applications. The Cybercultus «eBusiness Solutions for the Art industry (eBSA)» aim at valorizing entertainment, educational, cultural and tourism assets, as well as fostering human creativity through interactive, social and immersive technologies. Today, Cybercultus works with large industries and organizations in Europe and develops partnerships with public and private actors specialized in social / immersive applications (for TV programs, cultural heritage, travel portals) and in GIS technologies (for spatial and temporal mapping of cultural and tourism geo-localised multimedia assets).

PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Culture

eBSA expo suite (editor & run-time): 2D/3D organization & display of cultural assets in virtual spaces
eBSA museum suite (editor & run-time): cultural assets and art collections management, valorization and geolocalization

Tourism

eBSA travel suite (editor & run-time): customized travel offers, virtual visits and planning, on site support

Entertainment

eBSA iTV suite (editor & run-time): immersive TV quiz show, immersive travel TV magazine, community TV content making
eBSA iTV libraries: advanced interactivity enactment based on the RAMO model

TECHNICAL MEANS

RAMO (Reactive and Adaptive Multimedia Objects): based on the MPEG 7 open standard, development of platform independent software editors targeting “web, mobile and iTV” social & immersive applications.

Open standards and technologies

VRML, HbbTV, DVB-MHP, HTML5, MPEG 2, MPEG 7, XML, Java, PHP

MAIN CUSTOMERS

Entertainment, culture and travel partners

SES Astra, ARD / RBB (Germany), ORF / TW1 (Austria), RTBF (Belgium), ORT (France), Musée Albert Kahn (France), Instituto Latin America de Museos (CostaRica), Agence culturelle luxembourgeoise (Luxembourg), European centre for eco agro tourism (The Netherlands), Siel Canada and Mayan-Zone.

Industrial partners

Thomson Multimedia (France), Philips (The Netherlands)

Public research partners

CRP Henri Tudor (Luxembourg), ESA, INRIA Lorraine (France)

MAJOR SPACE PROJECTS

TV entertainment applications

Real Time Immersive TV Show (RTI-TVS): enables TV viewers to participate from their homes, via avatar representations, to an aired TV quiz show.
Immersive Satellite TV (IMSATV): allows TV viewers, via an avatar representation and using the remote control, to discover the rich content associated with
an aired tourism TV documentary or magazine.
Community TV Content Making (COTV): enables TV viewers to partner with TV channels, co-producing TV content using smart phones for HD video capture & upload onto the TV programme and using networked TV facilities for team editing, publishing and rating of the co-produced TV content.

Museum application

Virtual & geo-localised museum: eBSA museum is an end-to-end digital museum platform. It supports indexation and archiving of museum assets, the possibility for professionals to create geo-localised virtual cultural visits, as well as the means for researchers and experts to consult large collections of assets and to order digital copies.

Tourism application

Online tourism à la carte : Trip à la Carte is an online tourism platform enabling travellers to build “à la carte” from a map their own trip, selecting in each locality the activities, the lodging and the local transport of interest.

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