Project Number
- 157
Title
- The Virtual Lego Village
Description
- Immersive virtual environment for collaborative play.
Contact
- Paul Mlyniec
Affiliation
- MultiGen Inc.
Address
- SmartScene Engineering
- 550 South Winchester Boulevard, Suite 500
- San Jose, California 95128
- +1.408.556.2633
- +1.408.261.4101 fax
- 550 South Winchester Boulevard, Suite 500
- pmlyniec@multigen.com
WWW
Year
- 1996
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 96 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "In the SmartScene immersive scene-assembly environment, this virtual playspace is assembled into an ever-changing and infinitely variable world. Several players at various physical locations share a common, collaborative space for assembling these scenes."
- Players work with a head mounted display and Pinch gloves using virtual snap cursors positioned between thumb and forefinger. With pinch gestures they can move and orient themselves, grab objects, and interact with available toolboxes. Spatial audio and ambient music also plays a strong role in enhancing the experience.
- This virtual reality play environment extends the familiar Lego toyset into a powerful distributed paradigm.
Sight
- SGI Infinite Reality, head mounted display
Sound
- spatial audio
Touch
- Pinch glove interface
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 4 - Practical, Consumable, Applied
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 309 - entertainment
Secondary
- 202 - collaboration
Remarks
- Virtual environment playspace.
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