Project Number
- 63
Title
- Projecto ESE (Electronically Simulated Environment): An Interactive Virtual World of Ancient Aztec Temples in a Sculpture Garden plus a Contemporary Mexican and Chicano Museum
Description
- Virtual environment walkthrough simulation of Aztec temples and a contemporary museum.
Contact
- Gregorio Rivera, Michael Joly
Affiliation
- LEEP Systems, Inc.
Address
- 791 Tremont Street, #W405
- Boston, Massachusetts 02118
- +1.617.859.5727
- Boston, Massachusetts 02118
WWW
Year
- 1993
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 93 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "'Project ESE' is an electronically simulated architectural/landscape 'walk-through' space: a virtual reality world of ancient Aztec temples and a contemporary museum of Mexican and Chicano art, design, and culture."
- The presentation consists of a VR walkthrough enabled by a Cyberface 3 system from LEEP. The display is boom mounted articulated manipulator. The imagery and content was developed using Intel-based PCs, LEEP Systems' software, and various commercial CAD and rendering packages.
- Project ESE creates a sense of audio and visual immersion to impress the sense of scale and sound of ancient sites.
Sight
- Cyberface 3 (LEEP Systems), Virtual Environment Navigator, Intel-based PCs, 3D Studio, AutoCAD, LightWave, Animator Pro
Sound
- Crystal River Engineering audio
Touch
- Cyberface 3 (LEEP Systems)
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 5 - Established, Finished
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 306 - education
Secondary
- 201 - virtual environment
Remarks
- Made possible in part by support from the New England Foundation for the Arts New Forms Program, NEA, Rockefeller Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Boston Computer Society
Last updated: 5 Jul 2002
Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH, Copyright © 2002 Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
Contact us: etech-map@siggraph.org