Project Number
- 103
Title
- First Contact: An Exercise In Understanding
Description
- Immersive cross-cultural experience with extraterrestrial life forms.
Contact
- Amatul H. Hannan
Affiliation
- ToolBox Productions
Address
- 77 Creeley Road
- Belmont, Massachusetts 02178
- +1.617.489.0197
- Belmont, Massachusetts 02178
- ahannan@alumni.cs.umb.edu
WWW
Year
- 1995
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 95 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "As we can observe in the extreme popularity of captivating games like DOOM, or commercial virtual reality arcade applications, aliens are usually for killing. The different, the unusual, the inhuman, is to be feared, evaded, and slain. "If it moves, kill it!" is the lesson of games such as DOOM, an inappropriate philosophy in our increasingly interconnected world. Through interactive technologies, this project illustrates that all is not as it first appears, and sometimes a stranger is a friend."
- In a head-mounted display, you find yourself on a different world. As the inhabitants make contact with you, they welcome you and allow you to explore their culture, their world, through direct transmissions of their thoughts to your visor.
Sight
- graphics workstation, head-mounted display
Sound
- amplified audio
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 307 - art / commentary
Secondary
- 201 - virtual environment
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
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