From: Gordon Tomlinson (gordon++at++paradigmsim.com)
Date: 02/23/2000 04:11:39
And your question is ;-)
Martin Goebel wrote:
>
> 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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--Gordon.
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