From: Martin Goebel (Martin.Goebel++at++gmd.de)
Date: 02/23/2000 03:26:57
Schloss Birlinghoven, Germany, February. 25th, 2000
GMDs Virtual Environment Research Division extended it's software
framework for virtual environments AVANGO by an olfactoric display,
which will be presented initialy on Cebit 2000 in Hannover
(Hall 16, Booth D59; Feb. 24 - Mar. 1, 2000).
The virtual presentation of a theme parc designed by the Austrian
artist Andre Heller in cooperation with GMD, RMH and Vertigo Systems
for the city of Bochum is presented as a full sensory experience, addressing
the visual, the audible the tactile senses and the sense of smell.
GMD has installed and tested this olfactory display in its cave-like
installation
called CyberStage in Birlinghoven, near Bonn, Germany.
Scent controllers are used to create a new level of immersion. The scent
systems
allows ambient scents as well as scents bound to objects and events.
The olfactory display is not polluting the virtual reality installation.
All scents are
almost completly gone after 20 seconds. The system is very promissing for
virtual training in hazardous environments, for product design and evaluation,
for education, arts and entertainment. GMD and its partners RMH and Vertigo
Systems
will exploit the olfactory display immediately in event based
installations, so called
Cyberstage productions.
Compared to our visual, auditive and tactile senses our sense of smell
seems to be highly underestimated. Traditional forms of art and
entertainment presented in museums, music halls or cinemas very seldom
adress our olfactoric needs and possibilities. Although the sense of
smell plays an important roll in our daily orientation and emotion. We
easily associate postitiv or negativ feelings to specific scents and are
able to memorize them for later callback of complex situations.
AVANGO, a Performer based framework is worldwide the first VR software
that addresses this important additional input queue. GMDs VR research
investigates in the advantages of
full sensory virtual and augmented environments.
Contact:
Dr. Martin Goebel, GMD-IMK; martin.goebel++at++gmd.de
Uli Lechner, GMD-IMK, uli.lechner++at++gmd.de
Frank Hasenbrink, GMD-IMK; frank.hasenbrink++at++gmd.de
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see us at CeBIT 2000; H16 D59; Feb. 24 - Mar. 1, 2000; Hannover;
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Dr. Martin Goebel
Head Virtual Environment Research
GMD - National German Research Center for Information Technology
D-53754 Sankt Augustin
tel: +49 (0) 2241 14-2367
fax: +49 (0) 2241 14-2040
email: martin.goebel++at++gmd.de
URL: http://viswiz.gmd.de,
http://imk.gmd.de/docs/ww/ve
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