Project Number
- 3
Title
- Be Here Now
Description
- Exploration of highly practical virtual-environment systems for visualization and entertainment.
Contact
- Mark Bolas
Affiliation
- Fakespace Labs, Inc.
Address
- 935 Hamilton Avenue
- Menlo Park, California 94025
- +1.415.688.1940
- Menlo Park, California 94025
WWW
Year
- 1991
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 91 Tomorrow's Realities Program
Project Details
- A Fake Space Labs presentation of three virtual worlds for analysis ("The Virtual Wind Tunnel") and aesthetic exploration ("Tape World", "Flatlands")
- Using Polhemus trackers and Fake Space Labs' BOOM2 viewers, participants enjoy a high degree of mobility within a 3 dimensional environment.
- Exploration of highly practical virtual environment systems for visualization and entertainment.
Sight
- Fake Space Labs BOOM2, SGI 4D/340 VGX IRIS
Sound
Touch
- Fake Space Labs BOOM2, Polhemus tracker
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 3 - Functional, Reproducable, Adoption
Intent
- 1 - Technology (innovation, machine)
Primary
- 102 - display (immer,aug,ster)
Secondary
- 301 - visualization
Remarks
- Fake Space Labs is a member of the Telepresence Alliance.
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