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A new installation in both cities links viewers via video walls. Its part of Wroclaw's celebrations as 2016 European Capital of Culture. STORY-LINE: Imagine being...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLEAD IN:People in Berlin and Wroclaw are coming together virtually. A new installation in both cities links viewers via video walls. Its part of Wroclaw's celebrations as 2016 European Capital of Culture. STORY-LINE: Imagine being transported to another place whilst remaining exactly where you are. Two European cities, separated by geography, history and culture are being united in cyberspace. Step into a blue dome in the German capital Berlin's Dorothea-Schlegel Platz and you end up in Pilsudskiego 105 in front of the train station in Wroclaw in Poland. The city is the joint European culture capital for 2016 - San Sebastian in Spain also holds the title. The Luneta project connects the cities in real time using video walls, with less than a second delay. It creates the illusion of stepping from one place into the other.  The identical dome-like tents, which are six metres high and 12 metres wide, house a tunnel made of screens on both sides that show  the surroundings of the dome in the other city live. A Skype video connection at the end allows visitors speak and interact with those in the other place.Today Wroclaw is a city in Eastern Poland, but before the end of World War Two it was part of Germany. \"The Luneta project is really a window, it's a window between two cities that are divided\" says Chris Baldwin, Curator of Interdisciplinary Performance for Wroclaw, European Capital of Culture 2016  \"Divided in many different ways. Divided obviously both  because both cities are in different countries. They are divided through language, and they are divided through geography, but they are also divided to the imagination and memory, principally because until 1945 Wroclaw was Breslau it was obviously a German city.\"At first people can't believe their eyes and become self conscious that they can be viewed live nearly 350 kilometres away in the German capital, he adds.\"First of all with a little bit of embarrassment, they can't quite believe that they are as visible to the other end as they are to you, but of course the game starts very quickly and the child emerges in all of us and we want to start playing\". The idea of 'playing' is an integral part of the project. Visitors are encouraged to dance with viewers on the other side of the screen or paint virtual messages. \"I think the Luneta project makes people closer, makes people that used to be enemies friends, and I think that's the way it should be,\" says Szymon Siwek who visited the project in Wroclaw with his family. The parts of the structures not accessible to the public contain the project's backbone. There are monitors mounted on a special scaffolding as well as the servers that make the connection possible.\"The new things of technicals is we have 60 monitors, which are connected to the 60 computers, and using a network we have the live streaming to the other city. We can connect two cities in real time in Luneta (project),\" explains Jacek Bednarek, the technician in charge of the Wroclaw dome.Nina Lutjens, the Luneta project spokeswoman in Berlin, uses the video wall to chat with her colleagues in Wroclaw.Volkmar Umlauft is the inventor and artistic director of the Luneta project. He explains the concept via the video wall: \"With the installation you bring the two cities, which especially in the heads of the people are so far away from each others, closer together. When you go in Luneta project you are only a few centimetre away from the other city. You can get directly into contact (with each other). That should be a starting point to visit each other. \"Lutjens says it reminds her of the science fiction TV shows of her childhood. \"It is quite funny in the beginning, because it reminds me of my experience when I was a child with the Starship Enterprise (from the Star Trek series)\".\"I thought that this beaming thing takes place more or less. This is the final little step before beaming, because you really have the impression that you are in the other city,\" she says.For most visitors, distance and cultural differences dissolve away when they are confronted with their neighbours in another country.  The installations opened on May 5 and will run until July 3. LEAD IN:People in Berlin and Wroclaw are coming together virtually. A new installation in both cities links viewers via video walls. Its part of Wroclaw's celebrations as 2016 European Capital of Culture. STORY-LINE: Imagine being transported to another place whilst remaining exactly where you are. Two European cities, separated by geography, history and culture are being united in cyberspace. Step into a blue dome in the German capital Berlin's Dorothea-Schlegel Platz and you end up in Pilsudskiego 105 in front of the train station in Wroclaw in Poland. The city is the joint European culture capital for 2016 - San Sebastian in Spain also holds the title. The Luneta project connects the cities in real time using video walls, with less than a second delay. It creates the illusion of stepping from one place into the other.  The identical dome-like tents, which are six metres high and 12 metres wide, house a tunnel made of screens on both sides that show  the surroundings of the dome in the other city live. A Skype video connection at the end allows visitors speak and interact with those in the other place.Today Wroclaw is a city in Eastern Poland, but before the end of World War Two it was part of Germany. \"The Luneta project is really a window, it's a window between two cities that are divided\" says Chris Baldwin, Curator of Interdisciplinary Performance for Wroclaw, European Capital of Culture 2016  \"Divided in many different ways. Divided obviously both  because both cities are in different countries. They are divided through language, and they are divided through geography, but they are also divided to the imagination and memory, principally because until 1945 Wroclaw was Breslau it was obviously a German city.\"At first people can't believe their eyes and become self conscious that they can be viewed live nearly 350 kilometres away in the German capital, he adds.\"First of all with a little bit of embarrassment, they can't quite believe that they are as visible to the other end as they are to you, but of course the game starts very quickly and the child emerges in all of us and we want to start playing\". The idea of 'playing' is an integral part of the project. Visitors are encouraged to dance with viewers on the other side of the screen or paint virtual messages. \"I think the Luneta project makes people closer, makes people that used to be enemies friends, and I think that's the way it should be,\" says Szymon Siwek who visited the project in Wroclaw with his family. The parts of the structures not accessible to the public contain the project's backbone. There are monitors mounted on a special scaffolding as well as the servers that make the connection possible.\"The new things of technicals is we have 60 monitors, which are connected to the 60 computers, and using a network we have the live streaming to the other city. We can connect two cities in real time in Luneta (project),\" explains Jacek Bednarek, the technician in charge of the Wroclaw dome.Nina Lutjens, the Luneta project spokeswoman in Berlin, uses the video wall to chat with her colleagues in Wroclaw.Volkmar Umlauft is the inventor and artistic director of the Luneta project. He explains the concept via the video wall: \"With the installation you bring the two cities, which especially in the heads of the people are so far away from each others, closer together. When you go in Luneta project you are only a few centimetre away from the other city. You can get directly into contact (with each other). That should be a starting point to visit each other. \"Lutjens says it reminds her of the science fiction TV shows of her childhood. \"It is quite funny in the beginning, because it reminds me of my experience when I was a child with the Starship Enterprise (from the Star Trek series)\".\"I thought that this beaming thing takes place more or less. This is the final little step before beaming, because you really have the impression that you are in the other city,\" she says.For most visitors, distance and cultural differences dissolve away when they are confronted with their neighbours in another country.  The installations opened on May 5 and will run until July 3. Berlin, Germany - 2 June 20161. Wide of Luneta dome 2. Mid of Berlin TV tower3. Various of screen showing Wroclaw (as live video, with less than a second delay) Wroclaw, Poland - 4 June 20164. Close up of banner on top of building (Polish) Wroclaw 2016 European Capital of Culture 5. Wide of the Wroclaw view 6. Wide street scene of Wroclaw 7. Wide of Chris Baldwin, talking to people in the Wroclaw Luneta project dome8. Low angle of dancer telling people how to move for the performance 9. Tracking shot of people participating in the performance from Wroclaw to Berlin through the video connection10. Close of camera in front of screen11. End of performance and participants clapping in both cities12. Wide of Chris Baldwin coming out of Luneta project Dome13. Close up of cameras14. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Baldwin, Curator of Interdisciplinary Performance for Wroclaw, European Capital of Culture 2016:\"Luneta is really a window, it's a window between two cities, that are divided. Divided in many different ways. Divided obviously both  because both cities are in different countries. They are divided through language, and they are divided through geography, but they are also divided to the imagination and memory, principally because until 1945 Wroclaw was Breslau it was obviously a German city.\"15. Medium of Chris Baldwin talking with a woman16. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Baldwin, Curator of Interdisciplinary Performance for Wroclaw, European Capital of Culture 2016:\"(People react) first of all with a little bit of embarrassment, they can't quite believe that they are, one self is visible to the other end as they are to you, but of course the game starts very quickly and the child emerges in all of us and we want to start playing\"17. Wide of Polish family looking at Berlin through the video wall 18. Medium of boy drawing on video the Skype connection19. Close up of boys hands 20. Wide of family leaving21. Close up of Wroclaw Berlin 2016 logo22. SOUNDBITE (English) Szymon Siwek, Visitor:\"I think Luneta project makes people closer, makes people that used to be enemies, friends, and I think that's the way it should be\"23. Various of technician walking behind wall of screens24. SOUNDBITE (English) Jacek Bednarek, Luneta technician in Wroclaw: \"The new things of technicals is we have 60 monitors, which are connected to the 60 computers, and using a network we have the live streaming to the other city. We can connect two cities in real time in Luneta (project).\"Berlin, Germany - 2 June 2016 25. Close up of train station sign above the Luneta project dome in Berlin26. Wide of train station and Berlin TV tower as seen from square where Luneta project dome is set up27. Wide pan left of Nina Lütjens spokeswoman of Luneta project walking towards Luneta project 28. Cutaway Luneta sign 29. Nina Lutjens spokeswoman of Luneta project entering Luneta project 30. Various of Nina Lutjens speaking through a video connection with Artistic Director of Luneta project31. SOUNDBITE (German) Volkmar Umlauft, artistic director of Luneta project:\"With the installation you bring the two cities, which especially in the heads of the people are so far away from each others, closer together. When you go in Luneta project you are only a few centimetre away from the other city. You can get directly into contact (with each other). That should be a starting point to visit each other. \"32. Wide of Luneta project dome in Berlin33. SOUNDBITE (English) Nina Lutjens, Luneta project spokeswoman:\"It is quite funny in the beginning, because it reminds me of my experience when I was a child with the starship Enterprise (from the Star Trek series). I thought that this beaming thing takes place more or less. This is the final little step before beaming, now because you really have the impression that you are in the other city.\"34. Close up of camera and microphones used by Luneta project in the video connection between the cities 35. 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