Virtuelle
Mauer / ReConstructing the Wall
VR Project, 2008, artist team T+T (Tamiko Thiel &
Teresa Reuter)
Virtuelle
Mauer / ReConstructing the Wall
is a virtual reality installation,
an interactive 3D computer graphics environment that allows users
to experience a section of the Berlin Wall and its surrounding
neighborhoods
in some of their former complexity.
Using interactive VR dramaturgical techniques such as simulation,
interaction and time travel,
it develops a 3D interactive installation consisting of a network of
scenes whose sequence users will determine via their own actions .
The
virtual reality installation is shown as
a 3m x 5m (~9’ x 15’) interactive 3D
computer
projection,
a life-sized image that immerses users visually in the virtual space
and engages their kinesthetic senses.
Users move through and explore the interactive 3D world of the VR
artwork with a simple-to-use joystick.
Stereo speakers convey background ambient sounds such as traffic noise
and birdsong,
but at certain locations in the virtual world one can also hear
recordings of archival documents dealing with escape attempts
and other historical events that occurred in the project area.
Screenshots :
http://www.virtuelle-mauer-berlin.de/.../screenshots.htm
Streaming Video : http://www.architekturclips.de/berliner_mauer
