Project Number
- 127
Title
- BE NOW HERE (Welcome to the Neighborhood)
Description
- Immersive virtual environment installation about landscape and public gathering spaces.
Contact
- Michael Naimark
Affiliation
- Interval Research Corporation
Address
- 1801-C Page Mill Road
- Palo Alto, California 94304
- +1.415.842.6061
- Palo Alto, California 94304
- naimark@interval.com
WWW
- http://www.interval.com/projects/benowhere.html
Year
- 1996
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 96 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "This installation is an immersive virtual environment about landscape and public gathering spaces."
- "The installation consists of stereopic video projection on a large screen, four-channel surround audio, a simple input device, and a 16-foot floor that rotates in sync with imagery."
- This high fidelity experience recorded four locales on UNESCO's "Endangered List" of World Heritage Sites at various times of day... "to simulate what public media spaces could be like in the context of live, high-bandwidth global networking."
Sight
- stereoscopic video projection, 35mm stereo-synchronized film cameras
Sound
- four-channel audio
Touch
- motion platform
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 5 - Established, Finished
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 308 - information / commerce
Secondary
- 201 - virtual environment
Remarks
- UNESCO World Heritage Centre
- Produced for Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Gardens.
- Video demonstration on Visual Proceedings CD-ROM.
- Produced for Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Gardens.
Last updated: 5 Jul 2002
Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH, Copyright © 2002 Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
Contact us: etech-map@siggraph.org