Project Number

161

Title

Virtual Society

Description

CyberPassage Conductor creates and edits 3D virtual environments with access through VRML browsers.

Contact

Frank Foster, Yosh Kambe

Affiliation

Sony Pictures Imageworks

Address

Culver City, California 
+1.310.280.7603

E-mail

frank@spimageworks.com

WWW

Year

1996

Reference

SIGGRAPH 96 Visual Proceedings

Project Details

"'Virtual Society' illustrates a new medium that exists across networked computers and enables simulation of real space in more intuitive forms. 
 
Using CyberPassage Conductor, users can create and edit 3D information worlds that would be impossible or cost-prohibitive in the real space/time axis. At SIGGRAPH 96, Sony presents a beta-version extension for VRML that allows VRML enabled browsers to wander through and manipulate 3D space. 
 
"Existing electronic media such as the telephone, radio, and TV, were developed with little or no integration, each independently establishing its presence via its consumer base, transmission capacity, and interactive capability. This demonstration is about the convergence of such communication media through a massive network of servers and appliances.

Sight

DEC Alpha workstation, Pentium workstations, Sony rear projector

Sound

native audio

Touch

Smell

Taste

Other

Emergence

3 - Functional, Reproducable, Adoption

Intent

1 - Technology (innovation, machine)

Primary

107 - interoperability (net,std,protcl)

Secondary

203 - interactive paradigm, technique

Remarks

Networked interactivity.

 


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