Project Number
- 28
Title
- VBK - A Moviemap of Karlsruhe
Description
- Surrogate moviemap travel program of the Karlsruhe tramway system in Germany.
Contact
- Michael Naimark
Affiliation
- Naimark & Company
Address
- 216 Filbert Steps
- San Francisco, California 94133
- +1.415.391.4817
- San Francisco, California 94133
WWW
Year
- 1991
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 91 Tomorrow's Realities Program
Project Details
- A surrogate moviemap travel program of the Karlsruhe tramway system.
- Using digitized imagery from uniformly photographed footage of the entire tramway route, a video disc presentation enables seamless access and traversal of many route possibilities.
- Similar to MIT's Aspen Moviemap of the 1980s, VBK is a cinematic approach to virtual reality that promotes sampling of a culture as seen from an historic tramway.
Sight
- Macintosh IIfx, Pioneer 8000-video disc player, Barocvision 1500 video projector, ODC videodisc
Sound
- Macintosh IIfx
Touch
- custom inputs
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 201 - virtual environment
Secondary
- 308 - information / commerce
Remarks
- VBK is a surrogate travel program commissioned by the Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnology, a state-funded arts and medial lab in Karlsruhe, Germany.
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