Project Number
- 79
Title
- NorthWater World
Description
- Interactive virtual environment for experiencing life as alternate life forms such as an Arctic wolf or seal.
Contact
- Amatul Hannan, Eben Gay
Affiliation
- ToolBox Productions, ERG Engineering, Inc.
Address
- ToolBox Productions
- 77 Creeley Road
- Belmont, Massachusetts 02178
- +1.617.489.0197
- ERG Engineering, Inc.
- 2 Moore Road
- Southborough, Massachusetts 01772
- +1.508.460.0529
- +1.508.229.0830 fax
- 77 Creeley Road
- erg@world.std.com
WWW
Year
- 1994
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 94 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "NorthWater World is a visual and aural triptych of interactive experience, of worlds within worlds, and life within lives. It is action and reaction in a wild mythic setting."
- "The primary goal of this project is to give the user the experience of inhabiting a completely different body. The user's sight, sound, movement, and environment are changed to that of a different being. The intended result is an understanding of the other being that cannot be gained from an outsider's viewpoint."
- The beings explored include an Arctic wolf, a white fur seal, and a virtual being of icescape itself.
Sight
- Gateway 486/66 PCs, SPEA Fireboard graphics card, Sense8 WorldToolKit
Sound
- Crystal River Engineering Beachtron 3D sound boards
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 4 - Practical, Consumable, Applied
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 307 - art / commentary
Secondary
- 201 - virtual environment
Remarks
- Group project of the Boston Computer Society Virtual Reality Group
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