Project Number
- 19
Title
- Plasm: Above the Drome
Description
- Multiplayer cooperative virtual arena for 3D dance with artificial life forms and other participants.
Contact
- Peter Broadwell, Rob Myers
Affiliation
- Silicon Graphics Computer Systems
Address
- 2011 North Shoreline Boulevard
- Mountain View, California 94043
- +1.415.960.1980
- Mountain View, California 94043
WWW
Year
- 1991
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 91 Tomorrow's Realities Program
Project Details
- A multiplayer "cooperative virtual arena" where participants engage in a 3D dance with artificial life forms and with each other.
- Players physically stand on "skyboard" input devices that drive their flight through the aerodrome virtual artscape. Akin to surfboards, the animated environment responds to encourage exploration, play, and cooperative form making.
- Plasm was created out of a twelve-year interest in artificial ecologies and the newly emerging virtual interaction space for education and entertainment.
Sight
- SGI IRIS 4D/340s, IRIS Indigos
Sound
- SGI audio
Touch
- Skyboards by Tony Mikus of Santa Cruz, Force Sensing resistors by Intermetrics of San Diego, Real Time Control computer by Motorola
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 307 - art / commentary
Secondary
- 106 - autonomous character, synthetic life
Remarks
- Software was a distributed object management model with behaviors by Subscription. It also included line-of-sight collision detection.
- Virtual Environment.
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