Project Number
- 61
Title
- Plasm: A Country Walk
Description
- Immersive interactive art installation for walking a virtual dog down a country lane.
Contact
- Peter Broadwell
Affiliation
- The 3DO Company
Address
- 1820 Gateway Drive
- San Mateo, California 94404
- +1.415.572.5297
- +1.415.573.7704 fax
- San Mateo, California 94404
- peter@3do.com
WWW
Year
- 1993
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 93 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- This interactive art installation entices its audience to take a virtual dog on a stroll down a country lane.
- The presentation involves photo-realistic imagery and adaptive behavior on an active force feedback leash as seen on a large screen.
- "Plasm: A Country Walk" is designed to introduce a novel force feedback mechanism in the context of exploring an advanced virtual world interface.
Sight
- 3DO Interactive Multiplayer set-top computer, Panasonic rear-projection TV
Sound
- 3DO Interactive Multiplayer set-top computer, Panasonic rear-projection TV
Touch
- Dyno-Leash, custom force feedback I/O device
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 1 - Technology (innovation, machine)
Primary
- 103 - sense cue (vis,aud,tac/ff/mo,olf,tast)
Secondary
- 201 - virtual environment
Remarks
- Latest in an ongoing series of Plasm: installations. "Each piece in the series establishes its own interactive, living environment, exploring contemporary issues along the advancing edge of virtual world interfaces."
- Interactive paradigm, technique.
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