Project Number
- 92
Title
- A Virtual Shopping Mall: Coming Soon To the Crossroads of the Infobahn
Description
- Research prototype of a virtual environment interface for practical commerce.
Contact
- Marc Fredrickson
Affiliation
- San Diego Supercomputer Center
Address
- School of Architecture
- University of California at San Diego
- 3178 Brilene Lane
- San Diego, California 92111
- +1.619.534.7839
- +1.619.534.0298 fax
- University of California at San Diego
- u27417@cruella.sdsc.edu
WWW
Year
- 1994
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 94 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "This project is an investigation of how the practice of architecture might be able to contribute to the representation of cyberspace. Shopping is a provocative vehicle. It allows exploration of how middle-class shoppers might interact with virtual reality technology from an architect's viewpoint."
- "The combination of an important cultural pastime with advanced technology reveals how the technology might change our ideas of shopping and spatial perception."
- "A virtual shopping mall will enable shoppers to control the direction of their experience instead of being restricted to choosing the current item offered on television. Products and selections will have an added dimension, since they are stereo. And, in time, technology will allow touch and smell to complement the shopping experience."
Sight
- graphics workstation
Sound
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 201 - virtual environment
Secondary
- 308 - information / commerce
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
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