Project Number
- 80
Title
- The Personal Flogistabarium Release 1.0 Name of Experience: Waving
Description
- Immersive personal motion platform through a neutral posture chair.
Contact
- Brian V. Park
Affiliation
- Flogiston Corporation
Address
- 16701 Westview Trail
- Austin, Texas 78737
- +1.512.894.0562
- +1.512.894.0562 fax
- Austin, Texas 78737
- 71324.3663@compuserve.com
WWW
Year
- 1994
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 94 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- The Flogiston chair is a neutral posture chair that supports the body in a minimal-stress posture similar to the posture in zero gravity. It is mounted on a three-degree-of-freedom motion base that uses Pemram thrusters to provide motion. These thrusters are being developed for Flogiston by DDL and Lotus Cars for NASA's SBIR development of the personal motion platform for training astronauts.
- In the exhibit, an 8-foot by 5-foot curved HDTV projection screen surrounds the visitor with back-projected real-time imagery. A six channel surround-sound system supplies the audio experience.
- The personal-motion platform supplies motion cues and low-frequency vibration to the occupant. The combination of the neutral posture, motion cues, imagery, and sound all provide a sense of floating or flying in cyberspace.
Sight
- Sony HDTV projector, SGI workstation
Sound
- 6 channel surround sound
Touch
- Flogiston neutral-position chair with motion thrusters
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 4 - Practical, Consumable, Applied
Intent
- 1 - Technology (innovation, machine)
Primary
- 103 - sense cue (vis,aud,tac/ff/mo,olf,tast)
Secondary
- 303 - simulator / simulation
Remarks
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