Global Choreography, first flashmob globally thanks to augmented reality

Last Sunday 7 October's first global flashmob held simultaneously anywhere in the world. The intervention, baptized as 'Global Choreography', It consisted of a synchronized choreography guided through an augmented reality application that explained the dance steps and offered the music to dance.

In recent years 'flashmobs' have been organized (Public actions that are often carried out unpredictably in a particular place, arranged through social networks) involving thousands of people; However, Global Choreography, Event that took place this Sunday 7 October, has been the first to attempt to reach a global scale.

According to the newspaper El País, The event has been structured as a synchronized choreography, Coordinated through an augmented reality application, conceived by Dutch artist Sander Veenhof and choreographer Marjolein Vogels. Under the slogan “Dancing alone, together” (Dancing alone, together), Global Choreography has developed as a global dance, that anyone anywhere in the world could perform alone or in company.

To participate it was necessary to download the free application Layar for iPhone and Android. later, to start dancing, You had to run that application at the time the performance was announced., find the Layers voice and the Dance channel. At this point on the screen of the device appeared a virtual cube that guided the user instructing him on the steps he should take to stage the same movements that were being made simultaneously around the world.

Global Choreography has been conceived for the Tempo Festival Brasil in Rio de Janeiro and therefore it was essential to connect the application to the local time to coincide with the event. The dance conceived by Marjolein Vogels consisted of 33 Movements designed precisely for a person who carries a smartphone with one or both hands. The series of movements made by the virtual cube was calibrated for a person who has an augmented reality device in front of him., So the body of the subject made harmonic movements that allowed him at all times to follow the evolution of the choreography..

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