Project Number
- 111
Title
- Ping
Description
- Interactive multimedia datascape through the emerging World Wide Web.
Contact
- Antya Umstätter
Affiliation
- ART+COM AG
Address
- Budapesterstrasse 44
- 10787 Berlin, Germany
- +49.30.254173
- +49.30.25417555 fax
- 10787 Berlin, Germany
- antya@artcom.de
WWW
- http://www.artcom.de/ping/mapper
Year
- 1995
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 95 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "Ping was originally intended as a visual ride through the Internet in the free airtime of various TV stations. Today, it is a 3D datascape created interactively by Internet users."
- "Based on hyperlinks in a World Wide Web map, Ping creates a distributed interactive multimedia environment (the 3D virtual datascape) that gives users the visual impression of networking. The Ping database is composed of all netwide distributed map elements, which can be movies, geometries, or still images. It is generated by the users's remote interaction."
- "A virtual camera device called Eye Agent automatically renders a flight through the datascape, generating broadcast-quality output."
- "As computer technologies converge with television, Ping explores the possibilities of user interaction and representation within interactive broadcast media."
Sight
- graphics workstation, display
Sound
- amplified audio
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 3 - Functional, Reproducable, Adoption
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 307 - art / commentary
Secondary
- 201 - virtual environment
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
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