Posted on 17/01/2012
The VRT-medialab has closed its doors end of December 2011. Five years ago the lab was established as a part of the VRT, Flanders’ public service broadcaster, to carry out technological research into the creation, management and distribution of media content. Its focus was on the Flemish media market, but VRT-medialab also pursued collaboration on a European and worldwide level. Because of changes in VRT’s management contract that came into effect at the beginning of 2012, the VRT-medialab has been split into two separate labs: a smaller one still within the VRT and one in the IBBT, the Interdisciplinary research institute for BroadBand Technology. The lab in the VRT will perform longer-term research, while the lab in the IBBT will carry out so called close to application projects for the whole Flemish media industry. In the course of December all of the VRT-medialab staff has made a choice between the two new labs.
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Posted on 30/12/2011
GuidedChat is a game based on crowd-sourcing aimed at perfecting a language learner’s skills. The applied game mechanics are innovative as well as challenging. The teacher as well as other learners can monitor the learning progress through various game mechanics.
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Posted on 21/12/2011
NordicLight, a European project based on technology developed within the framework of the VRT-medialab project MediaLoep, was given green light. In September 2011 this basic technology was licenced out to spin-off Limecraft, who wil be leading the NordicLight project in cooperation with Wappa, Taglicht Media en Raindance.
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Posted on 09/11/2011
While doing research for the project COSYN(2), several tools for creating, testing and debugging adaptive bitrate streaming files were developed. Thanks to these tools audio and video streams provided on the Internet can elegantly and dynamically be adapted to the users’ needs. Since these tools - a segmenting tool and a few parser scripts - might be useful for other people, we decided to open source them.
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Posted on 17/10/2011
Thank you to everyone who joined the VRT-medialab sessions during the iMinds event! Your presence was heartwarming!
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