A community play space. A live, interactive, MIDI-driven, 3D world outside the Motel. An ever-changing environment that can be transformed by visitors using MIDI interfaces linked to SideEffects Houdini software and driven by Intergraph workstations. In this medium, which enables creation of a wide variety of intricate, organic 3D shapes, objects are created by moving the hand through space. The path of the hand forms surface pieces that seamlessly merge when they touch.
Users can also erase, add details, and manipulate objects with a simple two-handed interface.
They interact with the images as if they were a part of the virtual environment. When viewers move within the installation, the audio and video fade out, and the cross hairs recede into a black screen followed by text that requests viewers to remain still. The television imagery and sound resume only after all viewers within the installation have remained motionless for at least five seconds. VisiPhone's graphical rendering of the audio brings greater continuity and expressiveness to this connection. It portrays the existence of the connection even in moments of silence, and it expresses the dynamics and inflections of conversation.