Project Number
- 239
Title
- Life Spacies
Description
- Remote interaction and communications environment through artificial life forms.
Contact
- Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau
Affiliation
- ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories
Address
- 2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho,
- Soraku-gun
- Kyoto 61902 Japan
- Soraku-gun
- christa@mic.atr.co.jp
WWW
- http://www.ntticc.or.jp/~lifespacies
Year
- 1999
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 99 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "Life Spacies is an interaction and communication environment where remotely located visitors in a global environment (the Internet) and onsite visitors (in the local environment) interact with each other through artificial creatures."
- Using an email interface through the Life Spacies Web site, visitors create their own artificial creatures in the Life Spacies environment. Two independent interaction sites are linked together via a data line, allowing visitors at remote locations to be displayed in the same virtual 3D space.
- Onsite visitors can directly interact with the creatures by touching and catching them. A special text-to-form editor enables translation of text into genetic code that defines form, shape, color, texture, and number of limbs of each creature.
Sight
- graphics workstation
Sound
- native audio
Touch
- touch interface
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 3 - Functional, Reproducable, Adoption
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 307 - art / commentary
Secondary
- 106 - autonomous character, synthetic life
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
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