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"In a room with large-screen walls, where animated virtual players hold different musical instruments, the visitor, wearing data gloves, conducts a musical performance, leading the tempo with one hand and, with the other, directing aspects of the

"Nuzzle" is a shared 3D virtual environment art work, using digital networking technology. It realizes a new type of communication space where people can meet and talk to each other as avatars from several telematic immersive computer terminals.

Jaron Lanier, the musician and scientist who coined the term "Virtual Reality" brings the two worlds of his life, music and technology, together in a revolutionary new form of live performance. Jaron's group, Chromatophoria, combines deep use

Live Theatre Meets Virtual Reality On April 18, 1995 the University Theatre of the University of Kansas brought live theatre to cyberspace through the use of "virtual reality" in a fully mounted theatrical production. Audiences were invited

Tesla Electric, the1998 offering from i.e.VR and KU's University Theatre opened in the William Inge Memorial Theatre on February 12th and ran through the 20th. Tesla Electric chronicles the career of inventor Nikola Tesla in an exciting

Panspermia is the name for the theory that life exists and is distributed throughout the universe in the form of germs or spores. This piece places the viewer in the middle of a virtual world of an aggressively reproducing inter-galactic life

What would life be like if it were made from computer algorithms rather than flesh and blood? Artificial Life is the name given to the simulation of natural forms and processes using materials other than those found in nature. It is not so much a

World Skin is an interactive artwork presented for the first time at Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria). It won the Golden Nica Award in the Interactive Art category in 1998. Armed with cameras, we are making our way through a three-dimensional

The first interactive moviemap was produced at MIT in the late 1970s of Aspen, Colorado. A gyroscopic stabilizer with 16mm stop-frame cameras was mounted on top of a camera car and a fifth wheel with an encoder triggered the cameras every 10 feet.

Be Now Here is an installation about landscape and public places. Visitors gain a strong sense of place by wearing 3-D glasses and stepping into an immersive virtual environment. The imagery is of public plazas on the UNESCO World Heritage