Interactive Virtual Sculptures
1979 - 1982
Virtual Sculpture as Virtual Reality
Below is a page from my 1981 sketchbook in which I outline a projected virtual reality display of the sculpture. The handwritten text from my sketchbook is rewritten as type to the right of the sketch.
"each eye piece containing the appropriate (stereoscopically) eye's view of the scene – perhaps the images themselves being generated as per today (2/81) with an electron gun on a CRT, and then transmitted, and scaled down, via cable (laser)
transformations being effected at first as per today's input devices – eventually the viewing device itself to contain sensors that would detect rotation/tilt of the head
a thorough incorporation of both monocular & binocular depth cues, plus the perceptual exclusiveness of the viewing device (similar to today's stereophonic headphones) would produce an astonishingly powerful perception of space
far fuckin' out!"