Project Number
- 58
Title
- Menagerie
Description
- Immersive virtual environment inhabited with interactive synthetic life forms.
Contact
- Scott S. Fisher
Affiliation
- Telepresence Research, Inc.
Address
- 320 Gabarda Way Portola
- Valley, California 94028
- +1.415.854.4420
- Valley, California 94028
WWW
Year
- 1993
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 93 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "Menagerie" is a "telepresence" and "virtual experience" medium around a "fully immersive virtual environment inhabited by virtual characters especially designed to respond and interact with users."
- A visitor becomes "visually and aurally immersed in a 3D computer-generated environment that is inhabited by many virtual animals. Using a stereoscopic boom-viewer and sound cues, the user becomes surrounded by a vast presence of virtual creatures.
- "Menagerie" advances technology and experience with sensing presence in a synthetic or remotely sensed environment.
Sight
- Fakespace "BOOM-2C Viewer, SGI CRIMSON/RE, video projectors, custom software
Sound
- Crystal River Engineering Beachtron cards, headphones, amp
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 307 - art / commentary
Secondary
- 106 - autonomous character, synthetic life
Remarks
- Michael Girard, Susan Amkraut - Unreal Pictures
- Virtual Environment, Experience.
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