From: Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++sgi.com)
Date: 02/23/2000 16:05:10
Smells a bit fishy to me :-)
Gordon Tomlinson wrote:
>
> 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
> > #############################################################
> > see us at CeBIT 2000; H16 D59; Feb. 24 - Mar. 1, 2000; Hannover;
> > #############################################################
> > 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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