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Johnston Canyon movie loop. This movie loop is the
thirty frame movie loop used in the Waterfall World.
Troll Falls audio capture. This movie shows the
location where Rob Tow
recorded the final sound of water falling for the Waterfall World. We went
to several waterfalls, and also recorded running streams. At
Troll Falls, Brenda
Laurel directed Rob to go right into the roaring falls,
with microphones strapped to his head, to record the sound of
the water falling on his head, for later use in the VR
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Crow
flight. Interval
Research researcher Sean White explores embodiment as Crow and experiences the
exuberence of
Crow flight, and then graciously swaps his body with
another participant - intercut are shots of Sean in the VR
harness, and his VR
framegrabs left eye's view from the video fed into his VR
helmet. Video by Rachel Strickland
Members of the Precipice Threatre at the Hoodoos. Role playing by members of the Precipice Theatre Company at the site that inspired the Hoodos World.
Members of the Precipice Threatre indoors. members of the Precipice Theatre Company exploring how Voiceholders might work. Video by Rachel Strickland
Mosquito demo.
This clip shows Rob Tow
demoing the cenceptual prototype of the Goddess's minion the
Mosquito to Steve Saunders while Brenda Laurel talks to her
children back in California. It was intended that the mosquito
would buzz about the head of the participant; spatialized sound
would make it quite annoyingly real... we hoped that we would
provoke people into waving so vigorously that they would slap
the VR helmets in a vain attempt to smash the mosquito as it
danced away from their hands and buzzed in their ears. We fully
implemented the mosquito, but in the last day before the
performance a bug (!) developed in the code controlling the
mosquito, and we didn't have time to fix it, so we commented
the call out... Video by Sean White
Critter animation. We wired the four position sensors worn by participants to the four corners of the polygon that the Critter 's icon was projected on to, and "wriggled" the polygon dynamicly in accordance with the participants movements - this was a compelling communication of presence by the smart costume worn by the participants; but we ran out of time, and could not include this in the performance. If we had only had even another two days, both this and the mosquito would have made it in... Video by Sean White
"Away Team".
Brenda & Rob about to return to Banff for the 4th
CyberConf, a year after the
Placeholder effort. Video by Brenda Laurel and Rob
Tow
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