Project Number

253

Title

Water Display

Description

Hemispheric, see-through display revealing images, sounds, and movement in a head-mounted system.

Contact

Yuki Sugihara

Affiliation

The University of Tokyo

Address

Tachi Laboratory 
7-3-1, Hongo Bunko-ku 
Tokyo 113-8653 Japan

E-mail

yuki@star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

WWW

Year

1999

Reference

SIGGRAPH 99 Conference Abstracts and Applications

Project Details

"This hemispheric, see-through display reveals images, sounds, and movement in a head-mounted system. Its hemispheric virtual immersion gives users a transparent sensation of being covered with water without getting wet."

Sight

head-mounted water display, projector

Sound

amplified sound

Touch

Smell

Taste

Other

Emergence

1 - Innovation, Custom, Research

Intent

1 - Technology (innovation, machine)

Primary

102 - display (immer,aug,ster)

Secondary

201 - virtual environment

Remarks

Implementation details undocumented.

 


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