Perceptual Arena

Ulrike Gabriel, Perceptual Arena 1993
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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 resulting virtual clay, which defines the space and is the material for the further interaction. The space correlates the individual perception and the perceived. The perceivable evolves through perception of it. To intervene in this process transforms the world, but can also push it out of balance and therefore destroy. The world of polygons and sounds is created and constantly changed by the personal views, it only exists through the viewer.

The complexity of the arena world results out of the total interrelation of all it's factors which in the end all depend on the users input data.
The factors are:

1. the users view onto the space

2. the users movement in the space

3. a history of movement and view

4. a virtual sensor in the field of view which applies history onto the space

5. the total access with a data glove onto the space through the field of view

6. the virtual clay which is object and result of all this factors.