Project Number
- 229
Title
- Building Virtual Worlds
Description
- Undergraduate course on creating interactive virtual environments with an educational toolkit.
Contact
- Randy Pausch
Affiliation
- Carnegie Mellon University
Address
- Entertainment Technology Center
- Newell Simon Hall 3517
- 5000 Forbes Avenue
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-3891
- Newell Simon Hall 3517
- pausch@cmu.edu
WWW
- http://www.etc.cmu.edu
Year
- 1999
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 99 Program & Buyer's Guide
Project Details
- "'Building Virtual Worlds' is an undergraduate course at CMU; teams of undergraduates use the Alice authoring system to build VR worlds on a two-week production schedule. Their worlds can be experienced via an head mounted display (HMD) or a WWW browser. This area demonstrates some of the worlds built by CMU students plus the Alice 3D animation tool and Teddy 3D modeling tool (by Takeo Igarashi, University of Tokyo). More information and a free set of 3D authoring tools (build, paint, and animate) is available at:
- http://www.alice.org
Sight
- graphics workstations, head-mounted display
Sound
- amplified sound
Touch
- various
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 3 - Functional, Reproducable, Adoption
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 306 - education
Secondary
- 201 - virtual environment
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
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