Design Specifications

We held many meetings to brainstorm on the design of Placeholder - ranging from Critter perception, the behavior of Voiceholders , the use of spatialized audio, the construction of the worlds, The Goddess, Crow Flight, and much more. Not everything made it in, due to time and resource constraints; the totality of the design specs below reflect the Placeholder we wanted to build; yet we believe that we did come close enough to these design specs to make Placeholder a compellingly different VR experience.

Description April 12 '93

Goddess specification June 23 '93

Voiceholder specification June 23 '93

Crow flight specification July 7 '93

Critter sounds July 12 '93

Critter perception July 16 '93

Critter perception July 19 '93

Crow vision psychophysics July 23 '93

Models and texture maps July 28 '93

Scenarios July 28 '93

Audio specification August 2 '93

Spider notes August 4 '93

Audio specification August 5 '93

Hole in the world August 5 '93

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