Project Number
- 56
Title
- Mandala: Virtual Village
Description
- Collaborative virtual village design through the Mandala VR system.
Contact
- Vincent John Vincent
Affiliation
- The Vivid Group
Address
- 317 Adelaide Street W, #302
- Toronto, Ontario
- M5V 1P9 CANADA
- +1.416.340.9290
- Toronto, Ontario
WWW
Year
- 1993
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 93 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "The Mandala Virtual Village is an urban design application allowing two locations to mutually plan the development of a 360-degree panoramic virtual environment."
- Based upon the Mandala system of a camera-based interface and natural "video gesture" controls, the Mandala environment provides an intuitive collaborative environment between multiple remote sites.
- "It is based on an existing multimedia learning resource kit developed for an international cultural exchange project between junior high and secondary school students in Canada, the U.S., and Italy."
Sight
- Mandala VR system, video projection systems, monitors
Sound
- monitors, remote connections
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 4 - Practical, Consumable, Applied
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 304 - distributed interaction
Secondary
- 201 - virtual environment
Remarks
- The Mandala system was first released in 1989.
- Intuitive gesture interface.
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