Presenter Michio Kaku demonstrates “tele-immersion” technology by dancing in a virtual world with people who are hundreds of miles away. They are dancing with each other’s virtual 3-dimensional images, transmitted to them in real time. Kaku suggests that 3-dimensional technologies like tele-immersion could be “the evolutionary successor of the telephone, and might even reduce air travel” (and real human contact). Kaku envisages business conferences, Christmas parties, TV programmes and …

my virtual lovers

Using two wiimotes and a stereo monitor to create a desktop virtual reality system. 6DOF tracking with the wiimote. For more information visit www.vrhome.de.

full immersions

Which is a security distance between people in public spaces? Which is the minimum distance between two strangers so that a relationship can be established between them? Can we have an active relation with images (in front of an ad, in a museum)? DE PROXÉMICA is an interactive video-instalation that pretends to create a situation in which one can play with the relativity of time and space by means of the representation of an environment where social relations are at stake. Andrés González …