Sonification and Virtual Environments

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Sonification and Virtual Environments
CMSCB3005
Dave Manley, Nov 99, (part 2)
davemanley_at_enterprise.net
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Introduction

• Today's Lecture Structure
• Virtual Environments and E-commerce
• Break
• Exam Clarification!
• 3D Worlds Demos
• KASPA and The vOICe Demo
• If time Eve and Unreal

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• What is a Virtual Environment? 1
• Books
• Theatre Brenda Laurel
• Shamanism and Imagination
• Believability
• Oz Project Woggles
• Realism vers Naturalism

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• What is a Virtual Environment? 2
• 2D--- Quicktime VR --- 3D
• Windowed------Immersive
• Equipment
• Home Brewed VR
• Avatars

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2D Environment
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Quicktime VR
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3D Environment
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• Windowed and Immersive VR
• Windowed
• Screen
• Immersive
• Stereo Video Display Helmet
• Spatialised sound via Headphones
• Power Gloves
• Combat Vests
• Trackers

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Avatars
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• How are Virtual Environments being used?
• Games
• Chat, Conferencing
• Education
• Science and Research
• Music
• VRML 2
• E-Commerce

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• GAMES
• Single-user
• Text adventures Colossal Cave Zork
• Platform. Moria to Rayman perspective
• Eve. 2D and Quicktime
• Little Big Adventure 3D
• Multi-user
• MUDs MOOs Text 2D
• Quake Unreal 3D
• Wireplay Networked 3D

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Text Adventure
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Platform
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Eve
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Little Big Adventure 3D
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Unreal Multi Player 3D Environment
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• Chat, 2D, 3D and Conferencing
• E-mail, News Groups Persistent Asynchronous
• Text Chat. IRC, Messaging
• Worlds Away Graphical 2D
• Worlds Chat Graphical 3D
• Active Worlds Multimedia
• Blaxxun Cybertown extensive social structuring
• CENTRA and PLACEWARE

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Worlds Away 2D Graphical Chat
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World Chat 3D Environment
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Active Worlds 3D chat multimedia
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Blaxxun 3D extensive social structuring
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Centra
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Placeware
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• Education Professional Development
• CENTRA and PLACEWARE
• Virtual Class Rooms Lisa Neal
• Rodgers State University
• TACO project

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TACO project
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• Science and Research
• Enabling Software
• DIVE
• MASSIVE
• MAVERIK
• CALVIN
• Virtual Cog
• CSCW, PITS

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Dive. experimental platform
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Calvin
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Virtual Cog
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PIT
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• MUSIC
• MIDI software
• RESROCKET Virtual Recording Studios

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Cakewalk Pro Audio 8
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Multi User Jam Session
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• VRML 2
• Annotated VRML 2 Reference Manual
• AC3D, Calligari True Space
• Human Animation Project
• Script not Code wireing
• Browser Results
• Teach World
• Birdman General testbed
• Nancy realistic movement
• Face teeth, eyes, face map, midi.
• Coffee Machine

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AC3D
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Script
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Rendering, Sony Community Place
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Rendering, Blaxxsun
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Rendering, Cosmo Player
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Birdman Testbed
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• E-Commerce
• Indirect
• Really Wild Show. Chester Zoo
• Online Medicine. Superscape Women's Health
• Dome.
• Advertising. Webbietookay and Vogue

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Online Medicine. Superscape Women's Health
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DOME
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No new ideas for Advertising Webbietookay
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• E-Commerce
• Direct
• On Line Banking, First Direct
• Online Gambling
• Web Commerce Powerlift
• Amazon Books 2D
• Galleries-Versailles 3D

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Online Gambling
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Web Commerce Powerlift
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Amazon Books
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Galleries-Versailles
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Galleries-Versailles
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• Future?
• The Zoo
• CSCW
• Hardware
• Social Problems