In this installation a rotating platform lets the person stand on a rotating projected image within a large circular projection screen and explore a three dimensional virtual environment. The work presents a virtual landscape containing eleven cylinders that show particular sites in the Ruhr area. The viewer can navigate this 3D space and enter these panoramic cylinders.On the platform there is a column with an underwater video camera. This device is user interface, its buttons and handling allow you to control his movement through the virtual scene as well as cause the rotation of the platform and of the projected image around the circular screen. A small monitor within this housing also shows the ground plan of the virtual environment with reference to the user's location there. A microphone on top of this camera picks up any sound that the viewer makes, and this causes the release of continuously moving three dimensional words and sentences within the scene.
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This is so cool! Jeffrey Shaw showcased this project in 2000. I really like the way this project is interasctive. Everything about the camera he uses and the way you can pick what you see and where to go is really different. The underwater camera is also pretty unique.
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