We had people coming online from Ireland, Canada, several American cities, Germany, Finland and other countries. I don't come to telecommunications and networking differently from the other work I do. All my work is concept driven, not so much media driven. It's not like I have a medium and see what I can do with it, but the works follow a general interest I have in language and how communication lies at the core of our very experience of the world. When you put on the VR headset, you project yourself into the body of the telemacaw.
Several things happen at once.
As you move your head to the left, headtracking moves the telerobotic head to the left. As you move your head to the right, the telerobotic head is moved to the right. The macaw's vision is both in color and in stereo. What you see with your left eye is displayed on a large monitor so that other people in the exhibit can see what's going on. It also goes to a live color interactive videoconference and to the MBone.