Project Multimodal Interaction
Excercise in Immersion 4
Is it possible to merge the real world with the virtual world? It is, once you put on the crash suit MultimediaN developed. And what do people experience when they play Excercise in Immersion 4 for the first time? MultimediaN made a Golden Video on the subject, recorded in April during DEAF07*.
Exercise in Immersion 4 is an art-game played in an existing physical space. The players wear a specially designed headset-display and a crash-suit. Objects in the virtual world correspond with objects in the existing world, on the display of the headset both are mixed visually. A player who does not move sees an existing reality that he confides in. The more he moves the more that existing space is visually taken over by an unknown virtual world.
Innovation
Exercise in Immersion 4 enables multimodal and tangible man-machine interaction. The player finds himself in a world that gradually transforms into a virtual one. This leads to completely new user experiences.
Excercise in Immersion 4, an art-game based on a creation of Marnix de Nijs/Picture: Marnix de Nijs
Technologie
The headset has a sensor system that connects the position of the player with previously modelled visuals.
Application Areas
The gaming industry will definitely be the main consumer of this technology. It is one of the quickest growing industries with an excess value that increases yearly. The technique can also be applied at cultural events. Putting two persons in a crash suit enables them to react to each other in a virtual world.
* The Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF) is an international and inter-disciplinary Biennale that focuses on art, technology and society. It is organized by V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam. V2_ is one of the first users of the research results of MultimediaN.
Partners
The Emotional Analyzer (N1)
Video Search Engine (N1)
Affective Mirror (N2)
Excercise in Immersion 4 (N2)
StreetTivo (N3 and N5)
The Investigator's Dashboard (N6)
The Surveillance Dashboard (N6)
On The Move (N6 and N9MI)
Concert Video Browser (N7 and N9MI)
Cultural Search Engine (N9C)