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  • Plasm: A Country Walk -
    ...A custom force-feedback leash is used to walk a virtual dog down an endlessly unfolding country lane. The simulation is driven by the 3DO game console's low-cost rendering hardware, with rear-screen projection filling the participant's view. (source:...
  • ... experience of, for example, communicating on the internet, or the relative drudgery of complex computer programming. These virtual worlds exist as mind sets, where an understanding of multi-dimensional spaces is as necessary a skill as reading is for the...
  • Starbright World -
    ...Starbright World was a pioneering online multi-user 3-D virtual world in which seriously ill children in hospitals across the United States could meet via a network to play with each other as avatars, build a part of the world themselves, discuss their concerns via...
  • ... onto the visitor's fingertip, he or she can explore through the viewfinder of the microscope three dimensional abstract virtual organisms, all being produced through an algorithm. According to parameters coming both from the plant biological pulses...
  • ... the movement of the image parts so as to bring them together and join the fruits, and when they succeed an outpouring of virtual coins rewards them. (A. Hegedüs)
  • ...In this work the movement of a large video monitor mounted on an industrial fork-lift truck creates a virtual representation of a larger than life size ballerina. As the forklift moves the monitor up and down the ballerina is presented from head to toe, and as the...
  • ... It encompasses the conceptual and technical development of a new form of interactive immersive visualisation environment and virtual-reality apparatus. In the centre of a large inflatable dome, two video projectors are mounted on a motorised pan/tilt device...
  • ... by modem through a conventional telephone line. Facing large video screens, the two distant players each shared the same virtual image space. While manipulating their own graphic elements each person was at the same time seeing on the screen in front of...
  • ... cylindrical mirror, the anamorphic distortion of the projected image is optically corrected, so as to present a coherent virtual representation of the original material to the viewer. The recurrent references to Baroque ceiling paintings in Heavens Gate,...
  • VR/RV
    ...VR/RV: a Recreational Vehicle in Virtual Reality is an interactive virtual reality environment. On a drive in a recreational vehicle (RV) through a virtual reality (VR) theme park, VR/RV explores the displacement and disembodiment of a technological determined culture...