Project Number
- 261
Title
- CYPHER: Cyber Photographer in Wonder Space
Description
- Self-referential immersive virtual environment for creating and exploring virtual worlds.
Contact
- Shoji Tanaka
Affiliation
- ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories
Address
- 2-2 Hikaridai Seika-cho
- Soraku-gun
- Kyoto 619-0288 Japan
- Soraku-gun
- gon@mic.atr.co.jp
WWW
Year
- 2000
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 2000 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "CYPHER allows users to build a virtual world based on predefined themes and photograph themselves while they are immersed in it."
- "Users build the world with wooden blocks that represent buildings and objects in the virtual world, and place them wherever they please within a set area. After the virtual world is constructed, users place a human figure block where they want to appear in the virtual world."
- "Then they instruct a robot to take a picture of themselves in the virtual world. The robot automatically moves or changes its camera angle to find the optimal composition based on its compositional knowledge for the photo of th euser in the virtual world. The resulting photo is presented to the user."
Sight
- graphics workstation, optical recognition system
Sound
Touch
- wooden world facsimiles
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 201 - virtual environment
Secondary
- 205 - tangible / gesture interface
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
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