WiMAX @ MIT

1. WiMAX @ MIT Potential Media Lab Projects

2. A crucial enabler for a compelling dual reality experience High speed DL Multiple simultaneous sessions High speed UL Large coverage area

3. Center for Virtual Life • Purpose is to invent and pioneer the emerging convergence of the physical (real) and virtual worlds • This convergence is called ‘Dual Reality’ • In Dual Reality people, objects, events and spaces exist in both realities simultaneously and impact one another • Center for Virtual Life (CVL) will partner with sponsors and industry CVL is a Media Lab initiative headed by Cynthia Breazeal, head of the Robotic Life group

4. Mobility: A Primary Requirement of Compelling Dual Reality in CVL • Interacting with the virtual world while away from the computer and engaged in activities in the real world • Activities in the real world while mobile affect actions in the virtual world • Activities in the virtual world affect mobile behavior in the physical world • This mobility depends on high speed, robust, and ubiquitous wireless service • WiMAX is uniquely designed to provide this mobility

5. Dual Reality Lab: Sensing in the Converged Realities • Developing sensors to provide context and experience in the virtual world • Developing new visualizations for sensor data in the virtual world • Developing sensing mechanisms for extracting context and experience from the virtual world • WiMAX multiple sessions allows coordinated, converged data exchange and use between worlds Dual Reality is a project in Joe Paradiso’s Responsive Environments group

6. Scratch - End User Content Creation • Multimedia authoring environment for end user content creation • Visual programming • Aimed at children • Extensive library of images, backgrounds, audio clips, etc • Author can stream created content to other’s WiMAX phones (Mobile Scratch) • Enhance Mobile Scratch with context elements that become active on the phone • Use WiMAX multiple sessions to provide coordinated speech with Mobile Scratch programs Scratch is a project in Mitch Resnick’s Lifelong Kindergarten group

7. Figure 1. Scenario of Riding Toward a Storm. Figure 3. User Movement Model from Collected Movement Data Ringing In The Rain: An Agent Based Weather Warning System • Tracks and analyzes dynamic phenomena on the web (ex. Weather) • Monitors user’s movement via GPS and predicts route from previous observations • Predicts adverse conjunction of route with phenomena • Give user’s movement and destination, notifies user in time to take action to minimize effects • Uses distributes agent architecture suitable for application to other similar applications Ringing in the Rain is a project in Chris Schmandt’s Speech Interfaces group • WiMAX multiple sessions provides ability to extract multiple sources from the Web and converge them on the handset

8. Living the Future • 5 year MIT wide research program to define and prototype the future of mobile, personal communications • Use the MIT campus and surrounding community as an observatory for future services and devices • Participation expands from 250 initial users from MIT in phase 1 to 20,000 users in the Cambridge community in phase 3 • Develop a series of open wireless communication and computing platforms • WiMAX provides the robust and high speed wireless medium necessary for many of the potential services and applications to be researched