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...The goal of this effort is to demonstrate one of the first fully immersive Virtual Environment installations that is inhabited by virtual characters and presences specially designed to respond to and interact with its users. This experience allows a visitor to become...

...Perceptual Arena is a realtime virtual environment. In the default state completely empty, it creates an audio visual space texture as a coding of the user interaction. The interaction is simply to be in the space, to perceive it, to move around and to grasp the...

... small monitor attached to his head, the visitor is provided with textual information which helps him to navigate inside the virtual sound space. A computer graphical visualization of the permanently changing system, the actions of the visitor and their...

...A virtual reality murder mystery - part movie, part performance - was created at The Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, in collaboration with Michael Mackenzie. It is an immersive interactive narrative piece. It combines interactive computer graphics, laser disk...

... about for years: live, tactile communication through a computer environment. The CyberSM project expanded upon text based virtual environments, such as Minitel, MUDs, or most BBSs. It also takes the next logical step toward true telepresence by employing...

... introducing visual effects such as time-lapse delays, slow-motion effects and time compression. (Source: http://www.virtualart.at/beta/images/clear.gif) Toshio Iwai about Another Time, Another Space: "This is an installation which I exhibited in...

... The first topics covered were: cyberpunk (both as a literally and political movement), electronic music, networks and BBS, virtual reality, media, science fiction and UFO. The magazine’s mission was to be a magazine of ideas, becoming a node in a larger...

... the cylinders begin to revolve, the camera appears to pan to the right or left. This is the second line of movements. The virtual camera is also mobile: it can move forwards or backwards along a circular path within the forest, thereby forming the third...

... horizontal tabletop. Lightweight stereoscopic shutter glasses are used to view these images in three dimensions. To view the virtual environment from the correct perspective, a magnetic tracking system follows the navigator's head in real time. A pair of...

... character-object, which the user can freely rotate and move about using the 3-D mouse. The screen image is a shared virtual space where each person's chosen character is co-present and co-active with the other three persons’ characters. This...