Operation Osiris (1993), Virtual Reality Installation

Basic Research Artwork

• 3D puzzle of a human figure in a virtual reality world
• test environment for use of goggles and gloves
• player can change the positions of models and grab them like objects in the real world
• player also can be inside the mummy or put its head on his own, like a virtual second body for a role playing game
• interactive installation with all standard elements of VR (goggles, glove, symbol of the hand, walk-throughs, collison detection)
• later used for virtual reality life performance in The Rebody

realized at Fraunhofer Institute/GMD
presented by Alfred Biolek at the CyberEvent 1994 in the Cinedom Cologne
presented as the recommendatory price at ARTEC 1995 in Nagoya, Japan
published on the CD-Rom “Cyberspace” by Systhema