Project Number
- 96
Title
- Alive Dreams and Illusions
Description
- Interactive immersive environment with synthetic life forms as agents of change.
Contact
- Trevor Darrell
Affiliation
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Address
- MIT Media Laboratory
- 20 Ames Street, E15-305
- Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
- 20 Ames Street, E15-305
- trevor@media.mit.edu
WWW
Year
- 1995
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 95 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "In these shared spaces of reflected dreams, users see mirrored images of themselves and, along with other people and agents, manipulate the state of the world and its agents to affect or guide the illusory experience."
- "Using an environment for immersive virtual experience based on computer vision techniques [ALIVE, SIGGRAPH 93], a 'magic mirror' display is provided by compositing a reflection of users onto the graphics display and projecting the result on a large screen. Interaction between people and agents is via natural hand and arm gestures, without the use of goggles or gloves."
- Agents (such as the dog, Silas) interact partially through actions of the user and partially through their internal motivational state (which might be manipulated by another attendee).
Sight
- graphics workstation, video cameras, projection display
Sound
- amplified audio
Touch
- gesture recognition interface
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 1 - Technology (innovation, machine)
Primary
- 106 - autonomous character, synthetic life
Secondary
- 205 - tangible / gesture interface
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
- Virtual Environment.
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