Skiing with MTV & Wikitude @Schladming, Planai

March 5, 2010 in Blog 1 Comment

On Wednesday we had our first official “Wikitude Ski Trip”. Not everyone on the team was able to make it, but Philipp, Markus, Wolfgang and I went to Schladming. But it wouldn’t be Wikitude if we didn’t have a great reason to go skiing at the Planai. The reason was MTV Austria.

Niki Radacher

MTV Austria’s show “Sixpack” is sponsored by Nokia, among others, and one special upcoming-episode will be spotlighting cool apps from the Nokia Ovi Storet.  The MTV Sixpack-guys really liked Wikitude, so we got the amazing opportunity to show them the true potential of Wikitude, live on the Planai slopes.

After taking the “Planai Bahn 1+2,” we met about our filming schedule and discussed the timeline and topics we would cover regarding Wikitude with the MTV Sixpack team-members: the host Markus, director Florian, camera guy Kyros and assistant Bennie from MTV. Since they were filming some general Schladming topics before our interviews, we took the chance to discover a few of the slopes with our personal guide Christine from the Planai Bergbahnen.

Philipp was first up and was interviewed by Markus from MTV Sixpack.  The interview focused on “Wikitude in general.” He did a great job describing our app and how it really works.

I was up next and talked about how “Wikitude helps users in Schladming.” My example was how the Webcam World helps, for example, skiers find out the weather conditions on the mountaintop even when it’s foggy in the valley.

Markus was interviewed about “Augmented Reality” in general at the snowboarding terrain park. Among other things, he focused on how sensors are needed to really bring an AR app to life.

Last, but not least, Wolfgang explained the “possibilities of the app concept and smart phones” and how this new market is creating not only new jobs, but new businesses.

At the end of our ski-day, we had some delicious Kasnock’n at the Schafalm, the same place we had started our journey early that morning.

Special thanks goes to the MTV sixpack-team, Christine Witting and the Planai Bergbahnen for a wonderful and exciting day (including a Kasnocken dinner, Bananensplit und Kaiserschmarrn).

See the show from March 14. 2010 for one month, every Monday and Tuesday at 8pm and Sunday at 6pm on MTV Austria! http://www.mtvhome.de/

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