Access Grid “Showcase” 2004, Access Grid Retreat 2004
June 9, 2004
Toronto, Canada

Karaoke Grid

- A mode of Entertainment Grid
Kazuyuki Shudo (AIST),
Ken-ichi Miyanomae (Waseda U.),
Koichi Iijima (XING, INC.),

Kazuhiro Omura (XING, INC.),
Yasuhiro Funahashi (XING, INC.),
Ryo Katsuma (Waseda U.),
Uske Kuwa (Waseda U.),
Tomo Sonoda (Utagoe, Ltd.),
Satoshi Sekiguchi (AIST),
Yoichi Muraoka (Waseda U.)

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With this technology

We can just singon the Grid
In collaboration with our friends.

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2Karaoke Grid
Karaoke Grid is assembled technologies configured to produce
virtual karaoke rooms on the Grid ☺
What has been achieved:
Karaoke Grid node developed.
It is an AG node equipped with a karaoke machine.
RAT was modified so as to yield less audio latency.
RAT: the current audio tool of AG
But the modified version was not yet stable and not used.

We planned and managed a distributed karaoke session as partof SC Global 2003.
Over 20 sites from 5 countries attended and we could have a very
exciting session !
Do you find yourself
in this picture?

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3Karaoke Grid node
An AG node equipped with a karaoke machine.

KaraokeKaraokemachinemachinePIG (Personal Interface to the Grid)
based node

Delivery Grid node:
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4Constellation Sites
The Pacific Ocean
6,000 miles !

1 Gbps x 2
2.44 Gbps(Asia-Pacific Advanced Network)

Tokyo XP

Prepared sites
U.S.

Phoenix SC Global Showcase nodeJapan

Warabi: an XING karaoke room
Waseda University

Not-preparedOver 20 singing sites from 5 countries, Australia, German, Japan, Thailand andUS.

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5Organizations
A joint effort between
XING, INC
A leading karaoke service provider.

AIST
Japan’s largest research organization with 3,200employees.

Waseda University
One of largest university having 1,200 full-time
staff and over 50,000 students.

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6Test and Demonstration
We had tests between US and Japan combined withdemonstration.

Japanese sites:
A karaoke room at Warabiand Waseda University

AIST booth,
SC2003 Research Exhibits

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Nice singing !

7Test and Demonstration
The demonstration was open to everyone and theyjoined.

Singing audiences

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8Karaoke Grid Session
DateStarted at 16:00 on Nov 20 (MST).
40 minutes.
Attending Sites
SC Global room in Phoenix
about 200 seats ?
2 large screens (7.5’ x 10’ and 10’ x 28’), many microphones andcameras.

Over 20 sites from 5 countries attended the session over AG.
US, Japan, German, Thailand and Australia

A large audience viewed the streaming.
ex. In Korea
Even my wife could see the session at her parents’ home.

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9Karaoke Grid Session
ContentsA briefing by Shudo“Basket Case” (Green Day) by Akiyama (Osaka U.)“Help !” (The Beatles) by Teranishi (Penn State U.)“Livin’ On A Prayer” (Bon Jovi) by guys at Boston University“Let It Be” (The Beatles) by Shudo“We Are The World” (USA For Africa) by allSingers were invited just in the session.

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10Livin’ On A Prayer (Bon Jovi)

He got excited much.

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11Livin’ On A Prayer (Bon Jovi)

Pointing his finger at a camera

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Livin’ On A Prayer (Bon Jovi)

Singing altogether

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Livin’ On A Prayer (Bon Jovi)

But still I’m the leading singer.

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15Livin’ On A Prayer (Bon Jovi)

Shouting !

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17Let It Be (The Beatles)
I could also enjoy singing on Jennifer’s advice. Thanks.
Phoenix
MC seats

Phoenix
Shudo

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We Are The World (USA For Africa)
This song was proposed by Dr. Putchong, Kasetsart U., Thailand.
This was a great idea.
A guy at Winston-Salem State U. was leading this song while
jumping. He should be recognized as the best singer.

Phoenix:
SC Global room

Winston-SalemLANL
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19Newspaper Articles
Kyodo News, Nov 19
Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Nov 20
Asahi Shimbun Nov 20
Yomiuri Shimbun, Nov 20
Chunichi Shimbun, Nov 20
Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Nov 20
Asahi Shimbun, Nov 26

XING, INC. and
Waseda U. madeannounces.

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Social Problems
Performance rights
50 songs were prepared first, but 22 songs for thereal session.
Securing the rights takes work and time because we have tocontact each right holder.
JASRAC is the only window in Japan. This is not always good
but convenience in such a situation.

An US company required us to pay over $2,000 !!!
This is an initial fee and additional fees needed inproportion to playing time.
When we tried to secure the rights to play video taken inSC Global in a commercial event (Oracle World Tokyo).

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Karaoke Grid in future
CAFEnetAG-compatible software, butwith less latency, - 30 msec.

cf. several hundreds msec withRAT

with sophisticated and cool userinterface.

Developed by Utagoe, Ltd.

From scratch. But it uses RTP
and RTCP and interoperablewith AGTk (VIC and RAT).
www.utagoe.com/en/cafenet.ht
ml

Already deployed at several
cafes.
WIRED CAFÉ SHIBUYA,CAFE246, BOOK246, …

Karaoke Grid on CAFEnet
Less latency helps much.
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