The FestivalBuddy is a project that allows people from all over the world to attend a festival in a groundbreakingly new way.
The ubiquitous music festivals dominate the summer, but not all of us can afford these festivals either financially or time wise. And this is what we aim to change: we want to bring everyone to the festival. That’s why we created three Festival Buddies; telepresence bots that let users visit festivals, allowing people to not only watch and listen to what’s going on, but to truly interact with them.
The users can communicate with the festival attendees through a live video connection: people see their faces on the tablets embedded in the heads of the characters. By pressing a button the users are able to remote control the character’s hand: make gestures and can even squirt water at people. All of this experience depends on the quality of Telekom’s 4G mobile internet.
