Crowd2Cloud.org

What is crowd2cloud? The NYU Movement Lab is working with a team of collaborators to produce a new series of crowd gaming experiences based on our Squidball technology. We had already several public experiments with crowds of varying sizes (from hundreds to thousands of poeple) around NYU, in different New York City venues, Los Angeles, and Linz (Ars Electronica).

Squidball is a platform for high-energy, large-scale, motion capture video games for crowds. It debuted with audiences of 4,000 at SIGGRAPH 2004. Most recent Squidball venues include a 2010 event at Brooklyn's Bell House, ARS Electronica and New York Tech Meetup.

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Who's behind the Research & Development

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Squidball 2010 Crew and Sponsors

Chris Bregler, Sally Rosenthal, Kirill Smolskiy, Ian Spiro, Graham Taylor, George Williams

With special thanks to: Andria Natale, Chris Shell, Benoit Corda, Clement Farabet, Chris Wiggins, Robb Bifano, Hong Tam, Peter Birdsall, and all the C2C volunteers.

This project was made possible with the help of:

Squidball 2004 Crew and Sponsors

Sally Rosenthal, Producer Chris Bregler, Exec. Producer Katie Salen, Game Design / Producer R. Luke Dubois, God of Jitter Kevin Feeley, Mocap R&D&Production Bo Wright, Mocap Jon Meyer, Software Designer Tom Igoe, Physical Comp. Michael Naimark, Ball Visionary Jeremi Sudol, Mocap & Game Dev Alex Postelnicu, Game Dev Michael Rabinovich, Game Dev Jessica DeVincenzo, Mocap & Project Manager	Gene Alexander, Mocap  Debbi Baum, Slayer of Chaos Robb Bifano, Systems Support Clilly Castiglia, Audio Research Damon Ciarrelli, Advisor  Jason Hunter, Vicon support Rachel Morris, Prototyping Toe Morris, Rigger Gloria Sed, Prototyping Boo Wong, Advisor	AVW - TELAV Crew Jim Irwin Tom Popielski Gerry Lusk Mark Podany Mike Gilstrap
Audio Acknowledgements: "Insert Coin" and "Re-Atari" by Skott, "Superkid" by Max Nix, "Watson Songs" by The Jesse Styles 3000	Corporate Support: Apple Computer, Inc. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Alienware Cycling '74 David Rokeby: very nervous systems NVIDIA Corporation Segway Los Angeles Vicon Motion Systems Ltd.	Supported & Developed at: NYU Courant / Movement Group NYU ITP NYU Coles Sports Center Parsons School of Design ACM SIGGRAPH