Project Number
- 14
Title
- The Mandala VR System
Description
- An Amiga-driven multimedia virtual reality system with gesture-recognition interface.
Contact
- Susan Wyshynski
Affiliation
- The Vivid Group
Address
- 317 Adelaide Street West, #302
- Toronto, Ontario M5V 1P9
- Canada
- +1.416.340.9290
- Toronto, Ontario M5V 1P9
WWW
Year
- 1991
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 91 Tomorrow's Realities Program
Project Details
- The Mandala multimedia virtual reality system allows users to interact with computer generated worlds without any physical manipulation of the interface.
- Using video processing techniques and the multitasking hardware of the Amiga 2500 workstation, this software analyzes a users video performance and triggers relevant animations and audio responses.
- Mandala is a user-inclusive interface that brings the participant into a virtual world from a third-person point of view. It is intended for entertainment, education, and communications applications.
Sight
- Commodore Amiga 2500 workstation, Live! Real-Time Video Digitizer, video camera
Sound
- MIDI synthesizer, Amiga 25000
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 4 - Practical, Consumable, Applied
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 205 - tangible / gesture interface
Secondary
- 104 - machine recogition
Remarks
- Mandala was named by "Popular Science" magazine as one of the top New Breakthrough Technologies of the Year (1990).
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