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The 29 th Music and Media in Tampere in October, from Thursday 4th to Friday 5 th , was a huge international event with more than 650 participants from Finland and abroad. Finest Sounds was an essential partner in the event, inviting Japanese delegation of music professionals and festival organizors and organizing three panel discussions with themes like Japan listens!, Sub-Publishing in Japan and Branded Japan.  http://finestsounds.eu/news/finest-sounds-at-music-and-media-finland-seminar-this-week Finest Sounds University partners get together for a kick-off meeting on Wednesday evening before the event. From Tallinn University / Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School arrived a group of 15 students with professor Andres Jõesaar and project manager Ele Arder. From TAMK attended six students with lecturers Harri Karvinen and Sohvi Sirkesalo. Katja Pyykkö, student from HUMAK, took the role of coordinating all groups working with Estonian and Finnish artists. Thre...

The first XR Challenge event was held at Mediapolis on Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 19th September. It was organized by Business Tampere and Virtual Reality Finland in collaboration with TAMK , Business Finland and Leonidas, a local company specializing in web and mobile solutions as well as VR and AR implementation. At TAMK the people in charge of production were Jukka Holm and Timo Kivikangas . The application period for the challenge and the organization itself for the event was earlier this year in spring. Eight finalist teams were chosen from roughly 40 applicants from numerous countries who submitted their initial concepts and ideas, to present their full demos at the event. With the challenge portion itself being held on Tuesday, six teams that made it to the finals presented 10-minute pitches about their solutions to the range of judges. The jury included representatives from the three participating finnish industrial companies: Valmet , Fastems and Glaston , as well as Leon...

Last week we finished with one of the workshops of the Platinum Project! We had supervising teachers and project team members visiting us from Beijing and Hong Kong. Last time in Hong Kong we had formed four groups, and recently we had also received new team members from an university in Beijing and the university of Tampere. All in all the teams were formed from at least four different study paths! Within the teams we had many roles, and managed to split the work for everyone. The different team roles included programmers, UI designers, web designers, project coordinators, sound designers and of course, 3D artists.  In all the teams we had made our own plans on how to merge virtual reality and nature elements together in a way that we could improve the player's well being. In total we have now had three different Platinum workshops. Last time in October we focused on designing the game concept while visiting Hong Kong, and this time we had an intense developing workshop here in Ta...

Riku Roihankorpi of UTA explains things for people at Hell's Gate This project started with planning and team forming at the Tampere University OASIS premises. We went through the Hero's Journey model and talked about character types, but what I think made this project special, was how we were every day somehow connected to the nature. After all, our goal was to create a virtual reality app or game that would advance well-being and relax people with help of a forest-like experience. Prof. Hanna Wirman from Hong Kong Polytechnic (left), at Lake Halimasjärvi with students Lake Halimasjärvi in Tampere, climbing towards the Hero's Reward? Meeting an Archetype: The Lake's Guardian (who measured the water quality) I think the highlight of this project was the trip to Hell's Gorge , which is located in Helvetinjärvi (Hell's Lake) National park in Finland.  Using our senses, sensei Our guests from Hong Kong and Beijing universities were able to experience real F...

Sanni Weckman is interviewed of her performance weaving work at the TAMK Fine Art Final Works exhibition at the Mältinranta gallery. Click to 3:55 in the video to see it! http://areena.yle.fi/1-3351469