Project Number
- 252
Title
- (void*): A Cast of Characters
Description
- Virtual environment for interacting with synthetic life forms through a novel gesture-driven interface.
Contact
- Bruce Blumberg
Affiliation
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Address
- MIT Media Laboratory
- 20 Ames Street
- Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
- 20 Ames Street
- bruce@media.mit.edu
WWW
Year
- 1999
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 99 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "(void*) is a novel gathering place that unites the physical and the digital, allowing people and a cast of directable and autonomous characters to interact with each other. The interactions focus on movement, groups, and body language."
- "This installation continues the MIT Media Labs' work in intentional characters, sympathetic interfaces, and autonomous cinematography, and adds 'dynamic music composition' as an integral part of the system. It also introduces a number of novel physical interfaces to allow simultaneous multiple-participant interaction." Most notably, an interface involving a Chaplin-esque "buns on forks" is featured.
Sight
- graphics workstation
Sound
- amplified sound, synthesized music
Touch
- "buns on forks" interface
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 1 - Technology (innovation, machine)
Primary
- 106 - autonomous character, synthetic life
Secondary
- 205 - tangible / gesture interface
Remarks
- See also "Swamped!", SIGGRAPH 98.
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