Project Number
- 133
Title
- Global Interior Project
Description
- Multi-user, multi-cultural communications playground built on a networked 3D virtual environment.
Contact
- Masaki Fujihata
Affiliation
- Keio University
Address
- Faculty of Environmental Information
- 5322 Endo, Fujisawa
- Kanagawa, 252 Japan
- 5322 Endo, Fujisawa
- masaki@sfc.keio.ac.jp
WWW
Year
- 1996
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 96 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "'Global Interior Project' is a multi-user, multi-cultural communication playground built on a networked 3D virtual environment."
- Visitors interact with this virtual world through distributed "Cubical-Terminals" (kiosks) that support client 3D graphics workstations networked to a central server. Using a track ball to navigate the virtual world, visitors meet and talk to each other within the community matrix as they access it from remote locations. Communication is through telephone handsets and avatar models (face pictures mapped onto objects in real time).
- The installation is both user paradigm and kinetic sculpture.
Sight
- InterSpace application, UNIX workstation server
Sound
- sound console
Touch
- track ball navigational aid
Smell
Taste
Other
- multi-ISDN-port
Emergence
- 3 - Functional, Reproducable, Adoption
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 305 - community / society
Secondary
- 201 - virtual environment
Remarks
- Application supported on InterSpace software by NTT Software Corporation.
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