In this immersive environment for
multiple participants, each guest who
checks into Bar Code Hotel
receives a lightweight wand that transmits
bar-code information to a computer network.
An entire room is covered with printed bar-code
symbols, which may be "read' by the guests.
Each symbol triggers and controls the
presence, location, sound, form and behavior of
virtual objects presented in a large stereoscopic
display.
With bar codes, every surface can become
a responsive membrane, making an interface that
can be used simultaneously by several people
to control and respond to a projected real-time
computer-generated three-dimensional world.
(Perry Hoberman, c/o Telepresence Research,
320 Gabarda Way, Portola Valley, CA 94028, U.S.A.)
For more images by Perry Hoberman,
see the print journal
L E O N A R D O
Vol. 29, No. 1 (1996),
available from the MIT Press
(journals-orders@mit.edu).
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