Project Number
- 167
Title
- Wizard Island
Description
- Avatar-based multi-user virtual environment designed for bandwidth-constrained home PC environments.
Contact
- Brad Needham
Affiliation
- Intel Corporation
Address
- 2111 N.E. 25 Avenue
- Mail Stop JF2-64
- Hillsboro, Oregon 97124-6497
- +1.503.264.8911
- Mail Stop JF2-64
- Brad-Needham@ccm.jf.intel.com
WWW
Year
- 1996
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 96 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "'Wizard Island' is a multi-user virtual environment designed for the bandwidth, latency, and rendering constraints of home computers and the Internet."
- "It features VRML rooms and avatars, audio chat, client-authored 2D or 3D avatars, multiple camera views of the virtual world, and URL-based browsing of "Wizard Island" servers worldwide."
Sight
- Pentium PC towers, printers, rear-screen projectors, digital cameras
Sound
- push-to-talk, queued audio chat, sound amplifiers
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 203 - interactive paradigm, technique
Secondary
- 311 - communication
Remarks
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