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A Smart TV approach towards experiencing music festivals live from the living room

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Attending music festivals is a popular pastime. However, there will unfortunately always be a share of fans who, for a wide variety of reasons, are unable to visit a festival of their choice in person. This article reports on the expectations users have about being able to immersively experience music festivals from the comfort of their living room. Out of these expectations, we distill an approach for remote festival engagement that is centered around the concept of blending respectively professional and user-generated content. We then crystallize our approach into a Smart TV application called WanderCouch and let prospective users evaluate it in a simulated live setting. The resulting findings suggest that the proposed solution, among other things, exhibits the potential to improve on the experience provided by traditional (TV) coverages of music festivals, to have a positive impact on both immersion and level of engagement with concerts, and to transfer a veracious impression of the festival’s general theme and on-site atmosphere.

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Acknowledgments

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement nr 610370, ICoSOLE (“Immersive Coverage of Spatially Outspread Live Events”, http://www.icosole.eu). The authors would like to thank their consortium partners for their help gathering the Dranouter footage. We explicitly thank prof. Philippe Bekaert for his efforts in rendering out the professional Dranouter recordings. Finally, we express our sincere gratitude to the organizers of the Dranouter music festival, as well as to Triggerfinger, Intergalactic Lovers and Bart Peeters, the three bands that are featured in our prototype.

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  1. Hasselt University - tUL - iMinds - Expertise Centre for Digital Media, Wetenschapspark 2, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium

    Maarten Wijnants, Gustavo Rovelo, Peter Quax & Wim Lamotte

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Wijnants, M., Rovelo, G., Quax, P. et al. WanderCouch. Multimed Tools Appl 76, 5721–5753 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-016-3888-y

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