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VRML + Art

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VRML: the technology

Multi-User worlds

Wearable computing

Visual Assistant
 

Project output

Project conclusions

ieVR

Institute for the Exploration of  Virtual Realities, The University of Kansas.  The Institute's goal is to explore the uses of virtual reality and related technologies, principally within theatre production and performance.  The site contains various VRML models.

Visual Assistant 

Software for rapid visualisation within theatre developed at Exeter School of Arts & Design.  Allows for arrangement of 2D images within a 3D space and exports in VRML 2.0.  Easy to use.  Site also contains about 100 student VRML models.

Gertrude Stein Theatre 

This has several VRML models such as: Theatre Dionysus, the Globe Theatre, and Palais Royale.  They are also developing VRML characters (currently Boggerlas from Jarry's 'Ubu').

seeb theater: Links direct to vrml 2.0 files "for travel on stage cyberspace" (An interesting VRML construction, but an html page of exlanation would have been helpful!)

ADRIFT

This is realtime networked performance using VRML and streamed sound.  Check out the site for the time of the next performance

B)  Interesting and related projects that do not use VRML

CATS

Computer aided theatrical score. An ESPRIT project to develop a system for creating and evaluating staging models of all sorts of performances in the theatrical, television, film and advertising industries. (site not available 9/6/00)

Open_stages.

The home page for 'open_Stages' software written by Chris Dyer.  It is based on an earlier software application known as 'virtual_Stages'  Contains various pieces of computer-aided modelling and some VRML models. 

Daisy's Amazing Discoveries

The first on-line soap opera, produced by a group in Finland in 1997 - both English and Finnish versions.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Theatre & theatre Technology.  Contains information on various projects involving virtual reality and interactive theatre technology.

Placeholder project:

Landscape and narrative in a virtual environment.  Project by Brenda Laurel and Rachel Strickland.  The formats are movies, sounds and images.

KIDDS

The Kent Interactive Digital Design Studio is "committed to pursuing and developing the use of computers in theatrical visualisation, both historical and practical."

Computer Scenographics Studio.

Details of how to build virtual scenography, but not using VRML.  It uses Virtus WalkThrough Pro for modelling and Strata's Studio Pro for lighting and rendering.  DFX files are used.

Shakespeare's Globe

QuickTime VR Tour of the reconstruction of the Globe Theatre in London.

Virtual Drama Society

The Virtual Drama Society explores the future of immersive dramatic storytelling -- everything from Chat Theater to fully immersive, 'holodeck'-like VR experiences.

MiraLab

University of Geneva created the well-known animations using reconstructions of Marilyn Munroe and Humphrey Bogart.  They now undertake many research projects into topics such as virtual humans and live performances.>

BBC Virtual Production

The BBC's R&D pages concerned with the Virtual Studio, which uses chroma-key material, a suitable lighting rig and technical equipment for combining the real action with the virtual scenery.

VRML Dream Perfomance at VRML Dream Company (text documents only)

Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics 

A research group from the Dept of Computer Science, University College London who are involved in several projects concerned with VR and acting (e.g. 'Acting in VR' and 'Dynamic Virtual Studios'.

DramaWest

A range of resources on computers and drama

References on Computer Theater  by Claudio Pinhanez.