Project Number

188

Title

lamascope: An Interactive Kaleidoscope

Description

Interactive multimedia environment of interpreted sights and sounds.

Contact

Sidney Fels

Affiliation

ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories

Address

Seika-cho, Soraku-gun 
Kyoto 619-02, Japan

E-mail

fels,mase@mic.atr.co.jp

WWW

Year

1997

Reference

SIGGRAPH 97 Visual Proceedings

Project Details

"This interactive project introduces a multimedia experience using an interactive kaleidoscope." 
 
"The lamascope uses a video camera lens as the eye of a kaleidoscope and projects a kaleidoscopic image of the participant onto a large screen. A vision subsystem is coupled to the electronic eye to control musical tones using a sustain algorithm. A wireless microphone produces echoes corresponding to the audio analog of the kaleidoscopic reflections." 
 
"Once inside the lamascope, participants can gesture, dance, sign, and speak to control and choreograph the imagery and music in real time."

Sight

graphics processor, video camera

Sound

amplified sound, microphone

Touch

Smell

Taste

Other

Emergence

2 - Prototype, Components, Testing

Intent

1 - Technology (innovation, machine)

Primary

101 - hypermedia, hypertext

Secondary

309 - entertainment

Remarks

 


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