Skyline: Canal+ recreates a virtual city on TV with what happens on the web

Canal+ has launched a new application designed to show viewers what is happening on the website, plus.es. The application is called Skyline and shows the interaction of users with the website, representing it as a city that reflects daily activity and even represents real users of the website as animated human silhouettes, assigning each of them the name they used to enter the Internet.

Canal+ has launched a new application designed to show viewers what is happening on its website, plus.es. The application is called Skyline and shows the interaction of users with the web. The representation of this daily activity on the web in real time can be followed every day on Canal+ Extra.

As if painting the skyline of a city, Skyline builds a metropolis that appears in constant movement as reflected by the activity of the web. The contents of plus.es are represented with silhouettes of buildings, which are smaller or larger depending on the number of users who interact with them.

The paths through which users move on the web are drawn by Skyline using lines drawn from one building to another. The most consulted words in the plus.es search engine become text balloons that emerge from the users themselves, converted into “inhabitants” of Skyline. The application represents real web users as animated human silhouettes and assigns each of them the name they used to enter the web.

This representation of web information in real time can be seen every day on Canal+ Xtra (dial 7 of Digital+) and in high definition through Canal+

With Skyline, Canal+ becomes the first television channel to use an application of this style and thus opens a new concept of continuity on television, a screensaver with a life of its own.