Pocket Virtual Worlds - Flash Demonstration
OK, so you want to see a demonstration?
Well in lieu of using a "Pocket Navigator" (to provide kinesthetic interaction) with a handheld or mobile phone, we have put together this Flash demonstration to allow you to walk around a sample photographic virtual world.
For this demonstration you can walk around Studio One of Mather Dance Studio (which celebrates its centennial in 2008). For the centennial celebrations Gary Galbraith created MDC, a dance that uses the Pocket Virtual Worlds idea blown up in scale and projected on three screens with the dancers dancing "in" and "with" the virtual world.
Studio One is quite a large space (it was formerly a gymnasium) and the Pocket Virtual Worlds navigatable area is 29'x48' (that's 1,392 square feet). Comprised of over 11,000 photographs even compressed the dataset is 40MB. It took Jared and Gary (and a myriad of assorted graduate dance students) about 16 hours to photograph Studio One, 8 hours for Studio Two, and another 8 hours for Studio Three.
After your patient 40MB download, click on the screen to activate Pocket Virtual Worlds, you can then either use the provided buttons or your keyboard: the arrow keys move forward, backward, turn left, and turn right and the [ and ] keys slide left and right.
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