Project Number
- 145
Title
- Riverworld
Description
- Avatar-based meeting place in a Louisiana paddle-steamer virtual environment.
Contact
- Joe Waldern, Sheila Cox
Affiliation
- Virtuality Technology Inc.
Address
- 4005 Miranda Avenue, Suite 150
- Palo Alto, California 94304
- +1.415.843.3700
- +1.415.843.0711 fax
- Palo Alto, California 94304
- JohnW@Virtuality.com
WWW
Year
- 1996
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 96 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "Riverworld" is designed to demonstrate a way in which geographically separated people can meet meet and interact in virtual environments.
- Using a variety of network technologies (such as LAN and ISDN) and head-mounted displays, attendees enter a recreation of a 19th century Louisiana paddle-steamer and interact through "facial" avatars. In addition to real-time interaction with other avatars, objects, and characters in four visitation rooms, participants are entertained by live comedians, musicians, and entertainers from Virtuality's offices in the U.S., Europe, and Japan.
- "The project demonstrates what Web entertainment applications could look like within the next 18-24 months."
Sight
- Virtuality VR systems, camera, monitors, projector
Sound
- amplified audio
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 3 - Functional, Reproducable, Adoption
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 305 - community / society
Secondary
- 206 - avatar / agent
Remarks
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