微小な世界とのインタラクションを実現するインスタレーション作品 : Micro Friendship

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Small creatures surround us in our everyday life. In our large-scale world, we sometimes are not aware of their existence. Sometimes, these small creatures even anger or annoy us by their presence. With this instillation, we can understand and communicate with these creatures. This installation is composed of a flat display monitor such as PDP, a rod set between the flat monitor and the table, a microscopic video camera, a 2-dimensionally movable stage and small insects on the stage. The rod is connected to an insect-sized rod inside the display. Movements on the large rod are mechanically converted into micro-sized movements on the small rod. The display screen shows a magnified view of the insect-sized interior. The size is scaled such that the micro-rod in the display seems to be really connected with the large rod on the outside. Participants can thus seamlessly move this virtual rod to interact with the small creatures in the display. This installation offers a new type of virtual reality, which can make worlds with very different scales from ours appear seamless and naturally accessible to us.
日本バーチャルリアリティ学会の論文
2001-06-30