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METATRON SPACE OF BUSINESS
METATRON ZONE MANAGEMENT (MZM) COMPANY
Suggested forming group that picks the MZM committee or board
Suggest: Drobat, SAIC VC, Cooper, Krieger, Bowden, Lyons, Troyer
ZONES ARE META ENTITIES: MetaStar, MetaShell, MetaSite, Meta-Centers, etc.
MZM DUTIES:
Metatron Vision Model: oversees mapping and implantation
Create entities and sub companies (wholly owned or strategic partners)
MZM owns at least 55% of each new licensed entity
MZM contracts strategic partners to be part of the entities
Create entity to own the equipment (holding company)
Holding company leases equipment to Specialty Theater, MetaZones, etc.
Holding company guarantees control of our licensing for different company entities
Set up Z*Tron Industries: assembly, lease and installation (world Panavision model)
MetaTronics: R & D and inventors consortium, management of test bed work.
MZM agrees on the BASE PLATFORM and sets up METATRONICS.
The base platform is integrated around the Z*Tron (projector) and the Z-Kit (computer).
LICENSED SUB COMPANIES (wholly owned or 55% owned with strategic partner)
A. SPECIALTY THEATER: MetaRama
B. METASTAR GLOBAL (Virtual Private Network: VPN)
MetaShell (regional production Studio club) MDT digital integration platform
MetaSites (Community Studio of the Future club portals)
C. METAZONE (gaming space mini-Immersive theater chain)
D. META-LIGHT SITES (ad space) connected network of big screens for walk ways)
Deliver global ads, regional, local, and specialty shows to draw audience
F. META-CENTER: (groupings of venues for LBE, theme parks, etc.)
G. MDT-P TURNKEY: simulation applications: military, institution, commercial, LBE
Other than MetaStar chartered groups
H. DIGITRON: (turnkey design, massaging content for clients, creating new content)
Send corrected content to storage for serving to Specialty Cinema & other clients
Content for Short Lease clients: Conventions, Extravaganzas, and special events
G. METATRON VISION FOUNDATION
Famous Artists working in MetaShell give % of profit to foundation
Corporate sponsors work with Foundation and gain great promotional support
Local MetaSites participate both in fund raising and distributing funds
Z* TRON VISION (ZTV): suggested name for the projector platform
Zeon: artist/engineer who contributes to MDT-p, Content provider
METASTAR/ METATRONICS/ Z*TRON VISION
Global grid: Access high performance computing
Answer to systems and venue needs for integrated technology.
METATRONICS
(Research group: coordination and licensing)
The platform base is Z*Tron Vision (ZTV).
Consequently the first line of business is the Z*Tron ( Z*Tron in table of content)
& the Z-KIT: computer for Z*TRON (separate electronics and software package)
Sets interface synthesis for ZTV and MDT-P: systems platform for Studio of the Future
Sets interface synthesis for ZTV and Global MetaStar: broadband Interconnectivity
Sets Technology path and structures map
Set up and coordinates test bed site research
Test bed: MDT platform and test bed for strategic secure delivery system
MetaStar Global VPN (virtual private network)
Map VPN and open Intranet interfaces: IP security protocol: Flexibility
End to end, top to bottom management, application hosting
Highest quality audio & video
Platform protocol that drive standards forward for interoperability
DOCUMENTS & COMPILES: blueprints and contributions to systems
APPROVAL: system final test, compatibility, security, and QoS
TEST BED: contractual and charter relationship with virtual test bed partners
PATH: coordinator of communication path for test bed strategic partners
MODEL: lead coordination of design with virtual system test bed strategic groups
CONTRACTS: manages contracts with individual or groups
OUT SOURCING: Arranges contracts for outsourcing for any of these tasks
TASKS: assigns tasks
PRIVATE WEB: runs secure web site for virtual collaboration in test bed upgrades
MetaTronics R&D for delivery of the Z-KIT: (prototype done)
Attached computer which runs the Z*TRON.
Scalable low-cost high-end machine used in many type venues
Computer electronics for video, computing, graphics projection to Z*TRON
Manages licensing and purchasing agreements for software and chips
Ultra portable, quality graphics/computing/video convergence
Rich media, scalable, all inputs, SXGA, computer graphics
Stacked storage for two features (one shown, one in storage and one downloading)
Gaming, browsing, firewall, web server, audio video codex, MPEG 1 –4 +
Computer graphics resolution plus, flexible processing, mixing video & 3D graphics, etc.
All input (Composite, RGB, S-Video, camera, DVD, etc), variable scan rates
Image enhancement, line doubling, Color correction, encryption for delivered features.
DISCUSSION:
1. Interface synthesis: All zones communicate with all other zones in various configurations. Interconnect solutions are mapped out.
2. Each Meta Entity zone can be likened to a node in chip design.
3. Each zone has distinct bus or bus layer.
Example:
MetaShell personnel who work with the MDT platform and interface with the Famous artists in the MetaShell club communicate directly with MetaTronics where blueprints layouts are kept. MDT–p interfaces with ZTV (projector and kit). MetaShells communicate with each other. MDT-p designers communicate with MetaSite users. MDT-p communicates with Digitron for content manipulation or special images. MetaTronics creates the map: arbitration logic for the multiple bus master.
MODEL DESIGN and the MODEL IMPLEMENTATION
The goal is to create a constantly evolving platform for content development and distribution. This entails a hardware and software integration platform, content (creation & acquirement) and setting up the communication pathways through the pipe.
MetaTronics provides the environment for the interface synthesis map. It's a systems house that combines and manages the hardware and software and IP (intellectual property) needed for the systems integration; it designs and captures an executable system and evaluates the effects of using alternative applications, hardware, and embedded software. MetaTronics quickly builds an accurate simulation model for different configurations and generates a memory map for registers and software drivers between software and hardware.
Example: Test bed site for MDT-P INTEGRATION
PURDUE UNIVERSITY: Prof.. Dennis R. Short
Purdue International Center for Entertainment Technology
Innovative consortium of industry leaders for solutions for Studio of the Future
Institute targets: Digital Cinema, The Virtual studio, Advanced show control systems
Advisory: PIXAR, Electronic Arts, Tiffen, Visual Effects Society, Ronin Ent., Interactive Educational Network (IEN), Sonic Foundry, Intel, etc.
SONIC FOUNDRY CLIENTS: Microsoft, Intel, HP, Best Buy, Phillips, Sony, Warner, Universal, Disney, iFilm, Realnetworks (MediaSite, Media Dub). Streaming of Sundance film festival (Pure Stream); Automated rich media applications, scalable, streaming, deploy, manage, distribute video content on IP based networks
Dr. Short offered to be a test bed for the MDT-P and provide a site for a MetaShell club. The research and implementation could also include other universities. Iowa State U is suggested because they are considered a leader in virtual space and the University of Iowa is suggested because the community is valued as a content producer..
The U of Iowa play writers workshop is one of main training grounds for writers of film scripts and sitcom TV.
Suggested test bed model: Universities interact in setting up a VPN with secured pipes for interactive data flow infrastructure between MDT-P sites. MetaTronics management;
MetaStar & MetaShell LA would be coordinators for test bed
MetaTronics contracts with regional houses that have these duties:
Assembly of final model for first phase (lasers with projector with case)
Do final test on the projector
Install the Z*TRON platform and maintain
Responsible for regasing of tubes (send to regas house)
Support the platforms and engineering collaboration with test bed groups
ZTI regional groups subcontract to assemble (first phase) install and maintain projectors:
Group has engineering video, software, laser and integration turnkey abilities
EXAMPLE SUPPORT SITE: http://www.mechdyne.com/stories/1st_sig_page.shtml
MIDWEST: MECHDYNE, Marshalltown Iowa (Mr. Clover)
* Most advanced simulation and curved screen installations (Siggraph)
* Partnered with SGI to place Immersive installation at USC
Institution for Creative Technologies (ICT); Army simulation contract
*Designed and installed highest end Virtual Reality Auditorium at Iowa State
*Iowa State University: leader in virtual reality space
* “VR applications are vital to the development of the new generation” (ISU Prof.)
*C6: World’s most evolved cave environment: 6 sides (Iowa State U)
*University of Iowa: NADS simulation (advanced drive simulation for government)
*Supports U of Iowa, Iowa State U, and Purdue University and other university and government groups for their virtual reality research.
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SITES FOR Z*TRON INDUSTRIES
NOCTURNE: Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney tours, etc.
JM VIDEO: Intel and Microsoft conferences and stockholder meetings
Movies today are like experiences people can have at home. People want something special. We have to reconfigure entertainment on a grander scale. Special processes such as 3-D, interactive and hemispherical screens, creating an Immersive space for group celebration and enjoyment: a new kind of entertainment that will allow each person to be a participant, whether at home or in the group environment.
DISRUPTIVE:
The Z*TRON Projector is a disruptive technology. The introduction of this technology will change the way that the industry and users participate in many phases of the digital revolution. Meta Dimensional Transfer (MDT-P) is a systems integration platform of off the shelf commercial technologies as well as technologies from government labs, NASA and the military. The reason the industry has not been able to get a handle on this integration, especially for electronic cinema, is because of the “missing link: the Z*TRON Projector.
VIDEO STREAMING:
Intel, Crisco and others invested in the Digital Entertainment Network (DEN). The industry thought DEN would be a video streaming factory, but DEN folded even before the dot.com bust. Video streaming for the backbone and infrastructure will all be created in another way. Portal programming is created in MetaSites: Cinema Community Content Club Centers. The content is streamed to a 35-mile wireless local radius. Advertising supports this streamed content.
STUDIO OF THE FUTURE:
MetaShell playpens (virtual production centers) are where content is created by famous artists. These productions are distributed to Specialty Cinema, the networks, cable and MetaSites. MetaShells and MetaSites connected through pipe (fiber) will create a free flow environment for the Studio of the Future.
KILLER APPLICATION:
What content will cause people to insist on having broadband, just like people needed TV to watch Milton Berle? Often it is said that technology was and still is spurred on by the pornography market. But in fact it was the wild man Russ Humbard who was the impetuous behind new satellites. Humbard asked for money for his church group and the money poured in.
METATRON VISION FOUNDATION:
People want to contribute. They want to congregate. They want to share and participate. One of our killer application suggestions for driving the broadband expansion is MetaShell programming, the artists giving 30% directly to their foundation.
METAZONE GAMING:
Also a killer application is MetaZone gaming, a new legal fun game of chance that gives back a % to state or country education or infrastructure. It is new style lotto. People lay odds on who will win the virtual NASCAR race or what MetaZone Theater will win the “best game award”. Or which MetaZone team will win the game?
BRANDED ADVERTISING:
Corporate sponsors work with the foundation and are able to promote their product as well as contributing to international foundation projects. This is a great promotion vehicle for branded product. Avon’s lipstick that sells the best is when they advertise that they give a % of sale to woman’s health issues.
DISTRIBUTION BY PRODUCERS:
The open fat pipe will change the structures that exist. What happens when the independent producer can distribute his or her own features? What happens to TV channels when the audience can plug into any programming on the fat pipe? A house with cameras, a backset, storage and rendering and Avid (composting and editing) and you have created a feature, a television show or commercial.
Vyvx for Williams Communication has fiber from the cameras at the football game to the editing sweet for instant editing and transmission to the audiences. Advertising houses send commercials through the pipes. This is virtual content. If nothing else watch the news. It is time for the Studio of the Future.
COOKIE CUTTER:
The Future Studio is a world wide, evolving cookie cutter production platform where content is made through collaboration either in real space or virtually.
JUKE JOINT:
MetaSites are Cinema Community Content Club Centers where groups enjoy features from anywhere over the pipeline. Many would love certain foreign movies that they never have a chance to see elsewhere in a fun group atmosphere. And who knows what new type of experience will be created?
Content is about talent, and LA still is where that talent flocks. Talent, however, can be located anywhere and send their part of the project to a compiling center.
HOLODECK:
The Z*TRON projects images that are in focus on any line (Infinite depth of focus: IDF). Thus the MDT-P with curved high-resolution huge screens backsets, and a tool chest becomes the MetaShell playpen: a holodeck production center. The artist creates in a real time virtual environment. TV shows are captured in front of a live audience. Please see the After Hours Live show and sample script. See the MDT-P MetaShell to see what great digital tools are in the playpen.
Less complex MetaShells will be placed in the MetaSite locations. Many are attempting to create shows from clubs now like the show from the Great American Nightclub in San Francisco.
DIGITAL PORTAL:
The playpen has evolving capacity as the digital performing artist asks for more tools to create their ambience and show. The MetaShell will be a turnkey production center for different cities. Also the MetaSites will be creating programming on a local level. They will also be receiving the MetaShell programming as well as being a cinema portal sending the programming to the Specialty Cinema Theater and the homes.
The community theater/club is often in a refurbished old theater/: a jook joint. MetaSites are licenses by local owners. MetaSites lease turnkey equipment and receive programming. Benefits are set up to help local the community raise funding for specific issues. Teens can be trained in the centers and can create programming, thus being part of the new information technology. With a voice, they can feel as if they too are included in creating a better new millennium.
Also this concept provides fertile ground for the much needed video streaming using the new infrastructure and stimulating the economy. It also creates programming for the FCC issued wireless local franchises. There are many 18 year olds who are digital savvy, who will use this toolbox to create programming that is unbelievably sophisticated. This MODEL also creates a way for local communities to work on their “issues” by creating a self-sustaining money flow that can be used for supporting the local problems.
WHY THIS MODEL WILL WORK: Famous Players of Canada (one of the few lucrative theater chains) placed 20 Panasonic Digital Projectors in their regular theaters, where they get 95% capacity for their pay per view wrestling shows. They also sell a lot of beer and hot dogs. The digital projector offers many other avenues for the local community. People want a new “space” to view cinema, specialty programming, local entertainment, satellite live shows, and to be able to create their own television programming. They want to congregate, celebrate, participate, dance, relax, eat, and communicate.
ALL PARTICIPATE FROM TEENS TO AGED:
Also the aged who are at home will enjoy tuning in to the activities and will also feel like they are participating. But often they will enjoy the shows because they are not limited to the new music, but can be reminiscent of the Lawrence Welk show (with seamless visuals). Many elderly do not miss HBO’s Sex in the City, so there is an age crossover. The youth also enjoy seeing the new art form depict the great music and comedy of the 30s. This venue provides another of way to enjoy the nostalgia content in a new visual remix.
SELF-SUPPORTING:
This concept is a new type Bijou/ Juke Joint that serves the community. This MODEL is self-supporting in the fact that the programming from the local site streams to the homes on an advertised driven channel, thus creating much needed new product (video streaming). This MODEL is organic in the fact that it constantly evolves from a grassroots base reaching out to the global community.
NEW CHURCH:
What groups started the first revolution? Church channels that provided programming and raised money? They were the first groups who used the new available video equipment and configured a new space. This happened out of the Midwest in the early 70’s. So we start the next wave and throw MTV, Public Television, United Way, the 700 Club and a little Ted Turner ingenuity into the mix and we have the Studio of the Future.
And how is the studio of the future created? Fast work with evolving systems integration for Immersive space using government lab and military war innovation for the new simulation space for creation and celebration -- the Metatron Vision MDT-P.
HANDMAIDENS:
Through support of this project, the participants become the handmaidens for the birth of a new MODEL. MetaStar is the focal point of the MetaShell Studio and connected autonomous MetaSite clubs. Our MODEL creates a self-sufficient, advertised driven entity, selling merchandise and programming. The MetaStar concept is an evolution of the Public Television model. But instead of relying on government funding and donations, we are a self-sustaining, profitable entity.
CONVERGENCE:
We also are a vehicle for fund raising for issues of the new Millennium. We combine the United Way and Good Will models with a LIVE AID motif. A percentage of programming and merchandising profit goes to the specified foundation or group. People have the joy of sharing, knowing they are making a difference through their participation and purchases. They create programming, volunteer, or buy a ticket for a community celebration at the local MetaSites.
GUILD FOR LEARNING CRAFT AND JOB TRAINING:
Government funding can be received, however, for training staff thus providing local citizens from aged to teens an avenue to learn in the many MetaSite arenas: computer, graphics, editing, camera, story writing, composition, music mixing, etc. Maybe the new exciting competition between towns is not who will win the foot ball game, but which town will present the best talent or musical?
TEST BEDS FOR METASHIFT:
MetaShell and MetaSite are test beds not only for technology integration, evolving the platform as they share information, but also for community solutions. As one MetaSite community finds an innovative solution to drug or other social problems, they can share their programs with other MetaSites. This MODEL allows a new millennium metashift where boundaries are transcended: between engineer and poet, mathematician and musician, psychologist and social workers, teens and the retired.
REALITY GENERATORS:
Bricken in 1996 said: Virtual Reality is “designed specifically to confound ‘physical possibility’ and ‘imaginary possibility’-- a change in perspective shift -- Computers become “reality generators.”
BREAK BOUNDARIES:
Ivan Sutherland, considered the father of VR, said in 1965: the ultimate display where the computer can control the existence of matter” would allow “a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world… a looking glass into a mathematical wonderland.” “Break Boundary” was coined by Kenneth Boulding to signify a reformulation of matrixes-- change perceptions, ---causes paradigm shifts.
REFORMATION OF MATRIXES:
The MDT-P implementation allows a new space where a reformulation of matrixes happens. The Internet changed our world, as we knew it in just a few years. This transformation is ongoing, for an open communication among all peoples, based on a foundation of community MetaSites. The individual takes responsibility, the community takes responsibility, and the world is a better place. It might just be a fact that when teenagers have the chance to express, share their discomfort, their fears and their dreams, then guns will not be needed. When communities join together to take care of their own through a Town Meeting Hall motif, a balance between the haves and the have-nots is created.
LIVING SYSTEM MODEL:
The LIVING SYSTEM MODEL is the basis of our model. This model states that the human body functions in a miraculous way. Thus systems can be patterned after these functions: DNA is the map of the body system. There are patterns in particle physics that mimic the way the universe works. There is an underlining pattern that flows for the Universe.