Project Number
- 66
Title
- Virtual Environments for Public Exhibitions
Description
- Immersive virtual environments for extending and exploring museums.
Contact
- Mark Bolas
Affiliation
- Fakespace Labs, Inc.
Address
- 4085 Campbell Avenue
- Menlo Park, California 94025
- +1.415.688.1940
- +1.415.688.1949 fax
- Menlo Park, California 94025
WWW
Year
- 1993
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 93 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- This exhibit consists of two major parts - a VR demonstration for extending museums and a Virtual Reality Laboratory for audience exploration of immersion and manipulation interfaces.
- The first set of exhibits presented work for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History using Fakespace BOOM-2C viewers. The VR Laboratory offered hands-on experimentation with Fakespace BOOM and console-based workstations.
- Virtual Reality is an ideal medium for extending the impact and immersion of visitors within their presentation spaces.
Sight
- SGI Reality Engine, Fakespace BOOM-2C or RGBOOM viewer, video projector, George Mason University customer software and environments
Sound
Touch
- Fakespace BOOM-2C
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 4 - Practical, Consumable, Applied
Intent
- 1 - Technology (innovation, machine)
Primary
- 102 - display (immer,aug,ster)
Secondary
- 308 - information / commerce
Remarks
- "Early North America: A Virtual Site Reconstruction" was created for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History by the Visual Information Technologies Program at George Mason University.
Last updated: 5 Jul 2002
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