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- From: diego@minerva.st.dsi.unimi.it (Diego Montefusco)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: Re: EVENT: Paris, Centre Pompidou: VR Art Installation
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 14:24:19 CET
- Organization: University of Washington
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- In <9301250614.AA28664@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>, on Jan 24, my alter ego
- wrote:
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- > From: diego@minerva.st.dsi.unimi.it (Diego Montefusco)
- > Subject: EVENT: Paris, Centre Pompidou: VR Art Installation
- >
- > Just back from Paris: the installation was well worth the travel!
- >
- > It consisted of an Iris Elan R4000, a Fake Space Labs' BOOM2C, a 486 with
- > two Beachtron boards that provided localized sound.
- > ... [I then went on with a WONDERFUL description...]
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- I just missed something: what the participant was allowed/asked to do?
- And this is not of secondary importance, I'd say.
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- Well, you could navigate through the virtual world. The BOOM has two
- buttons on its handles, and where used to move forward/backward on the
- line of sight. The animals were moving with goal-directed,
- obstacles-avoidance algorithms, and avoided the user too!
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- Now I think that's really all, folks!
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- Diego
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