PAAPAB
PAAPAB is a networked virtual dance floor with a steady dance beat. The user joins the dance by selecting one or more life-sized puppets whose movements mirror that of the user's body movements through a simple motion capture system. As more users join in the dance, the floor gets more crowded.
The CAVE is equipped with a tracking sensor for the user's head and either one or two arms. PAAPAB uses this data to create the puppets' realistic dance motions. Each puppet shape varies, and the trackers are mapped to their body parts in different ways. Hence, the user may move her arms while the puppet moves its legs, tail or wings. Over time, a diverse group of animated puppets inhabit the virtual dance floor.
Presented at:
- Virtuality 2005 (Turin, Italy, 3-6 November 2005)
- Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality (San Jose, CA, 20 January 2005)
- 7th Symposium on Virtual Reality (Sao Paulo, Brazil, 22 October 2004)
- Networks, Art, and Collaboration (Buffalo, NY, 24-25 April 2004)
- Engineering Reality of VR, SPIE Photonics West (San Jose, CA, 22 January 2004)
- Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center (Buffalo, NY, 7 June 2003)
- Stockholm ArtFair (Stockholm, Sweden, 6-9 March 2003)
- en.red.ando's III One Day Conference (Barcelona, Spain, 31 January 2003)
- Mediaterra 2002 (Athens, Greece, 9 December 2002)
- Immersive Virtual Reality presentation, Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY, 22 November 2002)
- iGrid 2002 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 23-26 September 2002)
- Pier Pleasure (Buffalo, NY, 19 July 2002)
- Immedia 2002 (Ann Arbor, MI, 8-18 February 2002)
- Digital Frontier: The Buffalo Summit (Buffalo, NY, 2-3 November 2001)
- Chicago Artists' Month - Alternate Currents (Chicago, IL, 27 October 2001)
- Ars Electronica Festival 2001 (Linz, Austria, 1-6 Sep 2001)