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The goal of this research collaboration between IMSC and USC Cinema School's Interactive Division is to create a persistent virtual world that mirrors the USC campus, and to develop engaging content that exists in that alternative space. Using mobile devices, students walk through the USC campus leaving behind virtual fragments, represented by small 3d Models, as they walk. These objects exist on a virtual world embedded upon a 3d Model of the USC campus.

Mobile users, using PDAs are able to create new objects, and peek inside the space they are helping to develop. As each object is dropped, it retains a set of unique behaviors, and will interact with other elements in the virtual world. The result will be an emerging, complex series of ecosystems that give life to the virtual space and propel users and viewers alike to engage with the world.

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