Future Campus

A showcase for innovation and new technologies

Campus Future is an interactive exposition that demonstrates the latest technological innovations, advances and proposals for robotics, virtual reality or digital interfaces, among other proposals.

Company projects, university developments or investigation groups are in reach of the participants at Campus Party Europe so that they can experiment with them and discover first hand what the future holds.

The exposition also boasts the presence of the creators of each of the developments, who will explain and share their experiences, knowledge and key to their work with the participants.

HIRIKO

Hiriko is an innovative new concept, 100% urban vehicle and 100% electric. A new solution to urban mobility and sustainability responding to new expectations and needs of the new towns population centers of the XXI century.

This project is promoted by a group of automotive businesses of Alava, AFYPAIDA, the Center for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and new business development DENOKINN, the technological innovation center Epsilon Euskadi and the group "SMART CITIES "MEDIA LAB center at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

The project Hiriko is remarkable for the total accessibility of the vehicle, socially, economic and energy wise. It seeks maximum simplicity of the vehicle, completely sustainable and runs an innovative production modular process and is distributed by the car itself. The real Hiriko prototype is expected for mid-2011

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REEM-B

REEM-B is the evolution of the first humanoid created by Pal Technology Robotics, the REEM-A. The first prototype was designed to play chess with the Hydra chess engine and to be used as development platform. With REEM-B, Pal Technology comes astonishingly close to its final goal; to create a humanoid service robot that will be able to help humans in the future with sophisticated tasks. Our robot can walk dynamically, recognize and grasp objects, lift heavy weights and go around by itself inside any building complex, avoiding obstacles. It can speak with people and accept voice commands, recognize faces and remind appointments as a secretary. All these features, including the large battery autonomy, makes REEM-B unique in its type. Discover REEM-B, one of the most sophisticated humanoid robots in the world.

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WiiSpray

The project Wiispray goes well beyond replacing real graffiti as an art form.  Moreover, WiiSpray is an interface to give graffiti a new virtual level surpassing tactile boundaries of the tangible world. Within the system, there is a symbiosis of digital and analog as well as overcoming restrictions of distance and time.  An advantage of the system proves to possess a user-friendly design simple enough for children to use.  The virtual canvas allows the user to decide what is saved and what is discarded, all the while keeping the surrounding area clean and free. WiiSpray is independent of platforms and is based on Adobe Flash and uses Wii (Nintendo) technology. This software allows users to make the game all their own, offering a wide range of colors, interchangable caps, along with the possibility to incorporate the user’s personal photos, graphics, and backgrounds into the setting.

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Iberia Virtual Simulation Air Cabin

The participants at Campus Party Europe will be able to learn the instruments and procedures needed to fly a professional simulator of a commercial airplane.  With the collaboration of Iberia, we will reproduce a real cabin of a Boing 737NG completely functional with radar systems, telephone and radio.  The participants who visit this site will receive a flight initiation course and will have the opportunity to experiment a virtual flight in real time between Barcelona and Madrid airports.

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Alcatel-Lucent Technology

Among the many surprises awaiting us in the near future, is the evolution in the automobile industry.  Without a doubt, cars are going to transform and incorporate functions associated with new communication technologies.  The Toyota Prius on show at Campus Future is a hybrid vehicle that, thanks to the Alcatel-Lucent technology, becomes an extension of the telecommunications network with always-available services.  The new capacities of a ultra rapid broadband and mobile connectivity allow for added value services for management of contents, localization, presence, identity, security or hardware and software systems for the vehicle.

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Dreaming Pillow

Developed by By Armella Leung and Olivier Oswald with the help of l'Ecole des Mines de Paris: "The Dreaming Pillow is an installation which uses modern technologies to suggest new relationships to objects -here a pillow-, giving them the possibility to be not only utilitary and disposable, but also contemplative and poetical. Most people do no longer care for their sleepy dreams because our society really emphasizes the importance of achieving material dreams instead of paying attention to their inner imaginative and spiritual wealth. The installation invites you to explore these forgotten dream-like sensations. You get into a contemplative state by interacting with different imaginary worlds projected on the pillow".

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Quasar

Envis precisely is a studio for interactive art and design based in Munich, Germany. They describe Quasar as "An audiovisual composition that is based on a single set of MIDI notes. Those notes influence both music and graphics at the same time. We did not take the usual route of creating a piece of music first and then find some visualization for it; instead both elements have been developed at the same time. When we decided to change something with the graphics, the changes immediately influenced the music as well. It is a real time music visualization tool".

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Earthwalk

An interface based on Google Earth that allows the user the experience of walking on earth as if he were flying. Their creators Jens Franke and Thomas Glaser (from University of Applied Science in Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany) project the image vertically on the floor and the user navigates around the map thanks to his interaction with the Google Earth commands, being able go in any direction as well as zoom in and out.