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- From: lm011@aix370.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE (Alexander Tuchacek)
- Subject: VRship info
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.165850.198574@rrz.uni-koeln.de>
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- Reply-To: lm011@aix370.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE (Alexander Tuchacek)
- Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne, F. R. Germany
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 16:58:50 GMT
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- KNOWBOTIC RESEARCH - HAMBURG VR PROJECT
- Thank you very much for your interest. Here is the information you
- requested:
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- An interactive, walk-in, data base will be installed in two of the
- cargo holds (originally used as freezer rooms), on the freight ship
- Cap San Diego, in Hamburg harbour.
- The first cargo hold, a physical walk-in room corresponds to a self-
- organising, artificial data room made up of sound data, which will be
- called up, from aroundthe world, in the form of short musical or verbal
- sound statements.Visitor will navigate through the physical room with
- the aid of anultrasonic room sensor and an artificial eye, (a small mon-
- itor receiving orientation information via radio waves which is placed
- in front of one eye). The sensor and private eye allows the visitor to
- be informed about, and interact, with the virtual room.
- As a virtual visitor you are integrated into a computer system,
- which rebuilds rules of a self-organising complex organism (a
- model by Prigogine). From the characteristics of the sound
- statements, these rules build an interactive system similar to a
- cultural community and influence the behaviour of the carriers of
- musical and verbal data (the agents). The visitor can make contact
- with these 'agents' as he navigates through the room, and can
- activate their sound information, producing a real-time concert in
- the physical room.
- The resulting virtual reality, with constantly changing new
- structures of agent groups, can be observed at all times from the
- control room (the second cargo hold). Information about progress in
- the virtual room is displayed via a large video projection. Further
- monitors inform the visitor about the arrival and geographic origin
- of the sounds in the data bank, the state and developments in the
- real, and artistic sound room, and describe the use of the ultrasonic
- sensor and the artificial eye display.
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- How to send sound files to KR+cF:
- Please send your sound files in AIFF format (audio interchange file
- format, see Inside Macintosh, Volume VI", chapter 22: p. 22-33).
- We can also read next and wave formats. You may send standard
- audio tapes or DAT tapes with your recording as well.
- The sample should be a sound statement and express your
- personal attitude towards the world. What we need is musical
- material, verbal sound or noise, which can be collected in and help
- to create our virtual space. Your sound sample should be in mono
- and about 6 seconds. It might be a good idea to use your name and
- country as a file name, e.g. mike_mueller_germany.aiff.
- Let us know if anything is not clear.
-
- This is your chance to be part of a unique virtual enviroment,
- which will be explored by many visitors during the duration of the
- exhibition. We look forward receiving your statements and
- incorporating your contribution into the virtual room
- Please send it as soon as possible.
- Specific information on how to send us your details:
- Parameters (preferred: 8 bit, 32 kHz):
- length: max. 6 seconds
- resolution: 8, 12 or 16 bit
- sample rate: 22, 32 or 44.1 kHz
- sound type: mono
- Sending your file (e.g. mike_mueller_germany.aiff):
- via UNIX mail (INTERNET) type the following at the UNIX prompt:
- uuencode mike_mueller_germany.aiff mike_mueller_germany.aiff | \
- mail krcf_snd@khm.uni-koeln.de
- via anonymous ftp type the following at the UNIX prompt:
- ftp obelix.khm.uni-koeln.de
- anonymous /* enter anonymous as login name */
- your_name /* enter your name as password */
- bin /* switch to binary transfer mode */
- send mike_mueller_germany.aiff
- via COMPUSERVE (e.g. on Apple Macintosh):
- use the program BinHex or STUFFIT to translate the binary sound
- file into ASCII code. your file must be less than 560 KByte which
- can be achieved by using the preferred parameters of 8 bit
- resolution and 32 kHz sample rate.
- In COMPUSERVE enter the following commands:
- go mail
- 3 (upload a message)
- 2 (select a protocol)
- 1 (e.g. XMODEM/protocol)
- 1 (ASCII transfer type)
- mike_mueller_germany.aiff.ascii (file name)
- 1 (send)
- >INTERNET:krcf_snd@khm.uni-koeln.de
- aiff file (subject)
- aiff file (subject)
- your_name (your name)
-
- If you send us a standard audio tape or dat, please post it to:
- Knowbotic Research
- Weyerstrasse 49
- 5000 Cologne 1
- Germany
- We will send your material back.
- Thank you for your support.
- Christian Huebler
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