Archive for the ‘Glossary’ Category
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Avatar
Avatars are the spatial embodiment of virtual world network participants. They are, in fact, more than a simple digital representation endowed with movement and voice, they are composed of three elements : an agent, the client’s presence within a …
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Immersive visualizations
Immersive visualizations are data representations ranging from 2-Dimensional graphic abstraction to interactive, 3-D spaces. They evolve by accruing informational, material and spatial dimensionality. They are, in fact, data visualizations that are built into an immersive virtual environment, using inworld media …
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Dataflow
Dataflow, as used in the context of these projects, is a framework for designing, building, interacting and using media applications. It is also a “a software architecture based on the idea that changing the value of a variable should automatically …
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Virtual worlds
Virtual worlds are synchronous, persistent network of people interacting in a physically coherent spatial environment, represented as avatars, facilitated by networked computers.
- Synchronous communication permits real-time sharing of information or objects, and introduces temporality as a common thread in the
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Metaverse
We define METAVERSE as the collective, consensual space created from the convergence of digitally enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual and online worlds. It is composed of the sum of all virtual worlds, augmented realities and network enabled services …
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SIZIGIA is :
- Astronomical, “the point at which a planet or moon is directly in line with the Earth and the Sun.” [wikipedia] ;
- Literary, Sizigias y otras cuadraturas lunares, an 18th century science fiction novel by the
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Mixed Reality
Mixed Reality is the creation of new spatial environments for human interaction with physical and digital information in a synthetic space, produced through the merging of physical and virtual environments. “While each reality is complete unto themselves, they are also …
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Artist-in-residence
Artist-in-residence programs allowing artists to reside and work in a specific social and cultural context, often different from their own. These programs offer conditions that are conductive to creativity and they provide for working facilities for artists. Historically, Artist-in-residence programs developed in …