Animagina is an experimental VR project which plays with technotopian/technopocalyptic symbols in a conceptual environment. The idea of the project is to examine the way we understand these symbols, as they coexist in real time and virtual space. Following the "exquisite corpse" model, a surrealist technique that exploits the mystique of accident, the symbols come together to transport the user into their spatial logic.
Animagina is built for the CAVE, using Ygdrasil 0_1.11, Bergen spatialzed sound server, Performer 3.0 and the CAVE library. The user can be tracked from the glasses and wand tracker. The Animagina application has been tested on SGI and Linux and optimized for shared experiences with remote participants. For networking demonstrations, the Robust Audio Tool (RAT) is required for audio transmission through the network. In addition, Animagina has been tested on previous versions of Ygdrasil, the Bergen sound server and Performer and imported to the portable augmented C-WALL system successfully.
Version 03, March 2003, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Run as standalone.
IDEAS Festival 2003, April 2003, Indiana University, Bloomington. Run as standalone, VR Award.
IEEEVR 2004 EVL Open House, March 2004, University of Illinois at Chicago. RUN networked with Indiana University (Bloomington), Applied Interactives (Chicago) and Interactive Institute (Umeå, Sweden).
VII SVR Virtual Worlds Festival, October 2004, Sao Paulo, Brazil. RUN networked with Indiana University (Bloomington, US), University at Buffalo, State University of New York (Buffalo, US), EVL (Chicago, US), and KTH, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (Stockholm, Sweden).