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Re: EVENT: Paris, Centre Pompidou: VR Art Installation

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From: Diego Montefusco
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:24
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In <9301250614.AA28664@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>, on Jan 24, my alter ego
wrote:

> 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...]

I just missed something: what the participant was allowed/asked to do?
And this is not of secondary importance, I'd say.

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!

Now I think that's really all, folks!

Diego
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