Project Number

204

Title

Traffic Control

Description

Interactive virtual environment for understanding traffic in urban environments.

Contact

Gesellschaft fuer Mediales Gestalten Mbh

Affiliation

"The Virtual Company"

Address

Kantstrasse 165 
10623 Berlin, Germany

E-mail

chris@well.com

WWW

Year

1997

Reference

SIGGRAPH 97 Visual Proceedings

Project Details

"Through virtual reality, Traffic Control offers a unique, interactive, highly entertaining, and completely new way of understanding traffic in urban environments." 
 
Users navigate a very detailed model of Berlin, interactively choose their viewpoints (birds-eye, driver, bicyclist, pedestrian adult, small child) and can control traffic lights, signs, and vehicles at will. A state-of-the-art simulation kernel shows highly realistic (chaotic) and complex traffic behavior in an environment of high-quality images generated by a SGI Onyx2. 
 
Traffic Control is also suitable for real data input from street sensors.

Sight

SGI Onyx2

Sound

native audio

Touch

Smell

Taste

Other

Emergence

3 - Functional, Reproducable, Adoption

Intent

3 - Application (expression, enabler)

Primary

303 - simulator / simulation

Secondary

201 - virtual environment

Remarks

Implementation details undocumented.

 


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