Project Number

209

Title

Virtual Orchestra Performance

Description

Interactive virtual environment for symphonic performances.

Contact

Tapio Takala

Affiliation

Helsinki University of Technology

Address

Department of Computer Science 
02150 Espoo, Finland

E-mail

tapio.takala@hut.fi

WWW

http://www.cs.hut.fi/~tta/

Year

1997

Reference

SIGGRAPH 97 Visual Proceedings

Project Details

Visitors conduct a virtual orchestral performance in a virtual reality environment. 
 
The visitor, wearing data gloves, conducts animated virtual players holding different musical instruments. The players themselves exhibit human behaviors and have independent musical agendas when they are not being conducted. The visitor also experiences the results in a simulated acoustic environment of a virtual concert hall. 
 
Various techniques are used to produce this fully synthetic experience: rule-based agents for players' behavior, neural networks for response to conductor, physical instrument modeling for sound synthesis, real-time reverberation simulation for hall acoustics, and auralization filters for 3D sound.

Sight

graphics workstation, projection

Sound

3D amplified sound

Touch

wand and dataglove inputs

Smell

Taste

Other

Emergence

1 - Innovation, Custom, Research

Intent

3 - Application (expression, enabler)

Primary

302 - spatial sound

Secondary

201 - virtual environment

Remarks

Implementation details undocumented.

 


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