Project Number
- 211
Title
- WonderSpace: Interactive 3D Animation Browser
Description
- Avatar-driven interactive virtual environments.
Contact
- Toshiya Naka, Yoshiyuki Mochizuki
Affiliation
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd
Address
- Multimedia Development Center
- 1006 Kadoma, Kadoma-shi
- Osaka 571, Japan
- 1006 Kadoma, Kadoma-shi
- naka@isl.mei.co.jp, Mochik@isl.mei.co.jp
WWW
Year
- 1997
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 97 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "WonderSpace is a browser for visualizing a virtual world in cyberspace where lifelike creatures act according to VRML 2.0 and a specification for skeleton animation."
- "Through human-like avatars, WonderSpace realizes voice or sound communication in multi-user cyberspace. Technical features include compression/decompression of shape and motion data, modified motions generated from a base motion, motion connecting, and synchronizing motion with sound."
- "At SIGGRAPH 97, WonderSpace technology provides three interactive experiences:
- - DayDream is a virtual-life world for voice chats via human-like avatars
- - Wonder KARAOKE is a virtual KARAOKE world with dancing avatars
- - Wonder ShrineOmikuji is a virtual Japanese shrine with interactive avatars that seek to attain 'Omikuji,' a Japanese technique for predicting the future"
Sight
- graphics workstation
Sound
- amplified sound
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
- VRML protocol
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 206 - avatar / agent
Secondary
- 311 - communication
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
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