Project Number
- 55
Title
- Mandala: Virtual Cities
Description
- Urban environment study for networked young students through the Mandala VR system.
Contact
- Julie Stanfel
Affiliation
- National Film Board of Canada
Address
- Studio G, English Program
- 315 Côte de Liesse Road
- Saint Laurent, Quebec
- H4N 2N4
- 315 Côte de Liesse Road
WWW
Year
- 1993
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 93 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- The "Virtual Cities" is a series that explores urban environments and the design of "green" cities by networking young people in a number of countries to "investigate the environmental and social effects of accelerating urbanization..."
- The Mandala VR system is the ideal VR interface for groups of young people because the gestural interface is natural and the participant immersion is simple without need of additional goggles, gloves, or tracking devices.
- "Virtual Cities" was designed to help equip students to "make better informed decisions about changes that will occur in their urban centers through time..."
Sight
- Mandala VR system, video projection systems, monitors
Sound
- monitors, remote connections
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 4 - Practical, Consumable, Applied
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 205 - tangible / gesture interface
Secondary
- 306 - education
Remarks
- The Mandala system was first released in 1989.
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