Spatial Narrative Recent Work Demonstrations Bell & Cup Spatial Narrative | Description

 

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Spatial Narrative achieves communication of content with an almost completely intuitive interface. Instead of wondering which button to push next or where they have to move, they discover new worlds and new information; they are amused, entertained and delighted.

Spatial Narrative combines the 'frozen-moment' technique and a unique interactive display mechanism to create virtual worlds over which the user has lateral viewing control.

Monitors mounted at eye-level on vertical poles are mapped to a virtual environment with a circle of 360 perspectives on an interior scene. By physically moving the screen around the vertical axis laterally, the user explores each frozen moment. Because the user is physically moving around the content and recognizing each form in spatial relationship to its surrounding form, optically the content takes on a three-dimensional quality.

There are no buttons. The interface consists of two vertical handles on either side of the monitor as an indication to grab and rotate the assembly.

A short list of applications may be found here.

 

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