Project Number

124

Title

Alice: Easy to Learn Interactive 3D Graphics

Description

Educational toolkit for creating interactive virtual environments.

Contact

Brian Stearns

Affiliation

University of Virginia

Address

E-mail

WWW

Year

1996

Reference

SIGGRAPH 96 Website

Project Details

Alice is an easy-to-learn, easy-to-use software package that allows users with little programming experience to create interactive and interesting virtual environments. 
 
The scenario presented is a virtual environment for training Jedi Knights. Using a head-mounted display and tracked light saber prop, participants defend themselves against floating droid blasters while audience members view the action on a projected screen. 
 
The scenario demonstrates an easily created virtual reality environment.

Sight

graphics workstation, head mounted display, projection display

Sound

amplified sound

Touch

tracking hardware for light saber

Smell

Taste

Other

Emergence

3 - Functional, Reproducable, Adoption

Intent

3 - Application (expression, enabler)

Primary

306 - education

Secondary

201 - virtual environment

Remarks

This entry was not documented in the formal Visual Proceedings. No contact information was recorded. The project was featured again in 1997, this time from Carnegie Mellon University. The software is available from: http://www.alice.org

 


Last updated: 5 Jul 2002
Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH, Copyright © 2002 Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
Contact us: etech-map@siggraph.org