Project Number
- 150
Title
- Spirits of the Bayou
Description
- Virtual environment where human-directed avatars and computer-controlled agents interact in real time.
Contact
- Cynthia Allen
Affiliation
- NYU Media Research Lab
Address
- 715-719 Broadway, Room 1227
- New York, New York 10003
- +1.212.998.3478
- +1.212.998.4122 fax
- New York, New York 10003
- cynthia@play.cs.nyu.edu
WWW
- http://www.mrl.nyu.edu
Year
- 1996
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 96 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "Spirits of the Bayou" is a virtual environment where human-directed avatars and computer controlled agents interact with each other in real time.
- They are developed and controlled by behaviors specified through the IMPROV system. Using procedural animation, behavioral scripting techniques, and multi-modal interaction paradigms (such as speech and gesture recognition), the system supports collaborative development over a number of standard Internet protocols.
- Research continues on the development of more complex and autonomous virtual avatars and agents.
Sight
- SGI Indigo2, SGI Indy, Apple Power Macintoshes, VR4000 Head Mounted Display, Sony Rear-projected Displays
Sound
- Mackie 12 channel mixers, Alesis amplifiers, Yamaha DX7 MIDI keyboards, Fatar MIDI keyboard, Kurtzweil/Korg/Proteus sound modules
Touch
- keyboards, mice, gesture recognition
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 1 - Technology (innovation, machine)
Primary
- 106 - autonomous character, synthetic life
Secondary
- 206 - avatar / agent
Remarks
- Video demonstration on Visual Proceedings CD-ROM.
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