Sound is a musical and visual stereo virtual reality environment designed for Tracking The Net and a multi-user platform that combines motion capture and virtual reality.
The application has been designed to host interactive teams, which can experience a shared environment in local and remote locations through networking. It allows the visitors to create music on various levels, individually as well as within an interactive team
articulated by up to seven participants. The music played by the visitors can turn into images, effects, sounds, and 3D visual effects and vice versa. The more synchronized and intense the collaboration, among the visitors, the more astonishing the response.
Sound appears in front of the visitors like a musical satellite floating in space and surrounded in an angle of 360 degrees by musical chords, a sort of a virtual harp. The visitors can interact and navigate through this cyber harp, generating, collisions and therefore sounds and visual effects in a 3D VR environment.
A gateway conducts the visitor into a sort of a musical palace with transparent corridors, musical elevators and sonorous stairways in which all the objects, the angles are interactive instruments. The visitors can navigate and interact in the diverse ambiences, play the virtual piano, enter in contact with the cyber-jumpy.
(Franz Fischnaller)