tv Arts and Culture Deutsche Welle June 29, 2019 1:45am-2:01am CEST
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and how a bride gets ready for a big day in finland in our series on european wedding customs. bots we begin with a brand new harry potter game from the same company that brought his polka mungo a few years back and had people all over the world wandering around staring into their smartphones and acting strangely as they chased monsters well this time wizards unite is all about those weird and wonderful creatures dreamt up by j.k. rowling use digital x. but roger data has been chasing. the problem for wizards unite looks like a trailer for a blockbuster movie. manufacturer promises to address book players to the magical world of harry potter. via smartphone screens and amanda's reality.
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in the game players search for lost magical items called the balls. here's how it works as a player your phone is tracked by a g.p.s. and it shows you a map of your surroundings. with magical places. to reach those places you have to walk there. is not a game for lazy once you're there you can collect tools that you need to progress through the game. brandon lee and that's when things get really interesting camera captures your surroundings and it's animated sequences to the picture to retrieve the volatiles you have to cast a spell by swiping across your screen. the game in principle is not only was it you know i've been affection i can take release program and go in 2060 that game became a global phenomenon but about $800000000.00. and it told revenue of more than
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2000000000 euros so far with results you know it is now hoping to reach the harry potter fan base. prada mania is still going strong. merchandise harry potter sports events. and even our records are seen props and so far more than half a 1000000000 copies of the harry potter books have been sold worldwide and is betting its new game will reach similar numbers. and rogers is here with me now 1st of all roger are you a harry potter fan i have to admit i didn't read the books but i saw the movies i liked them a lot and luckily you don't have to be a harry potter expert to play wizards unite ok now we saw you playing it then what did you think of it i think. it has a lot of potential it is and is early stages and by now is still as it is a rather mixed back and what's been the reaction from fellow gaiman's.
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fellow gamers they they're quite happy with they they say they really praise the overall look of did they play the appearance especially because it's very very detailed. manufacture and they cooperated with one of brothers they own the copyrights for the bottom movie franchise and that's why the game can come very close to the atmosphere of the movies. you know ok now how's it doing for the company is it i mean you know this is not you know we've made a lot with the fe really made a lot of money and compared to those numbers i say was united is rather mediocre to put it mildly and then expos actually really very skeptical if it can really take off because it basically repeats a game principle that a lot of people know already and if you're looking at the figure is the 1st weekend was it united generated one roughly 1000000000 a 1000000 times or it would be
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a huge number 1000000 euros. was downloaded 3000000 times and compared to book a my goal that's peanuts but it was about 10 times as much ok now this game is a fun example of all mended reality are we going to see a lot more of this yeah i think at least the industry is hoping that we'll see a lot more of it in the near future and that they really want to bring that technology to the mainstream as for example apple they have developed a software that enables users to build their own our experience of google has been testing a new feature they are doing their actions at the moment and microsoft is has recently announced a game called minecraft earth in which users can build versions of objects. ok oh look it's be all male listen. i just thank you very much for now i'll let you get
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back to chasing what was basil this ball the dog was i was home for always for all grades robberies. thank you very much thank. 30 years ago july the 1st 989150 people techno music through west buttons main shopping street the party was billed as a political demonstration under the title peace joy and pancakes a lot within 8 is 1000000 people were attending what evolved into the annual parade and look back at a piece of music history. parade provided the techno beat for berlin's reunification. more than a party it was a youth movement started by an underground d.j. and his then girlfriend. d.j. dr much to and danielle deeply chouteau but the 1st love parade here through west berlin main shopping district a few months before the berlin wall came down. everyone was
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scattered around the 20 people who were there 1st we didn't have any event management we just did it we just flipped on the generators. west berlin in the late 1980 s. . so were the dream couple of the new subculture. acid house a new electronic sound which dr much of played in a club called the turbine. at the time affordable electronic instruments drum machines and bass synthesizers were changing how music was made and how it sounded . those 2 machines basically started a revolution it was like you can record music at home in your bedroom on a cassette or whatever but you could do it. and techno made everyone equal unlike before when there was always the big rock
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star out there. that's why techno was so important to me politically and that's what. made it so incredibly attractive as they got hot so long to have. the love parade became the image of a new generation post berlin wall hundreds of rivers turned into hundreds of thousands until a 1000000 joins the free outdoor party in the last parade so if it was a parade was in the perfect place at the perfect time it was a whole generation it started off as a little group of people who took to the streets saying this is who we are this is our music at that we're not afraid of technology we make music with it and i'm. done it. for the love parade ended in tragedy 20 time after the event was moved to western germany a stampede broke out leaving $21.00 people dead and hundreds more injured. afterward the organizers canceled the left parade permanently. today the youth of
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vent that wrote music history is being honored with this exhibition the original founders want to place an emphasis on the good old days when millions of people went out and braved peacefully and berlin and changed the world the image of germany with their colorful tolerant community. in our series europe ties the knot we accompany couples from all over the continent on the most beautiful day of their lives we've been to ireland it's really and cyprus so far today we're going right up north just inside the arctic circle to finish lapland where the wedding itself seems quite noble but what happens to the bride before seems slightly torture us all i can say is she must love a. at this sauna in finland they're making wedding preparations of a rather unusual kind. that stings why does it have to hurt so much.
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that i never promised to a rose garden and sometimes my son pleasant. being struck with the bathroom by the birds branches are supposed to really hammer home the bridesmaids advice. in another period spanish tradition the bride mario crank out her ex-boyfriend's in a t. shirt belonging to her future husband. and think good advice continues. always kiss one another goodnight. that's sweet. my dear mario always let told me think he's in charge. even though you are the one in control. after all that good advice the bridesmaids babe might go fast with salt to replace the sodium her body has lost 3 spends. a dash of flour boosts by tennessee. and finally
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and eggs to symbolize fertility. and now the big day has arrived by your can come and told me cool i will exchange vows in the biggest church in rovaniemi. never. struck up the wedding march i cried from the very 1st note. modern mario souza crown color. do you take tommy alexander to be your husband. i do. cording to old finnish tradition only the bride gets a new wedding ring the groom pieces and basement.
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ready outside the church the couple are greeted by friends from baseball it's tough . because he takes place a half hours drive from the city at a simple wooden house in the far east. and then more thought the wedding wouldn't change anything between us. but i think we're even happier and even more in love now. if there's any lesson to be learned from the happy couple and that it's keep it simple and gentle a steak knife says. they're
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all love. the whole series is available on our you tube channel if you want to see more just go to youtube put in europe ties the knot on the come up that's it thanks for watching i'll be back next week with much more. and don't forget the website. for more i hope you can join me next week until the.
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