Active VWorlds Web Opera
The goal for the three dimensional Web Opera in Active Worlds is to design an experience which is a dynamic creation; involving image, sound, and drama into a uniquely digital environment where viewers are fully engaged into their surroundings.
The initial stage will consist of uploading final art projects from the fall 2000 class of media art 391. Then the next step will include the development of a more complex arrangement of spaces and objects where a collection of art will be displayed. This will not simply be limited to 3D models, but will also include other key elements such as moving images and sound. The final stage will be creating a greater interactive experience, that is, certain objects in the opera will be given properties so that when a user clicks of bumps into them, and action is performed on his character. Continuing with the idea of unique experience, custom built bots with individual characteristics and personalities will rove around the opera giving the visitor a sense of place that can only be achieved in our world.
Throughout the semester we hope to build an "audience", that is, there will be scheduled updates to the opera each week, and in time a community will evolve based on these improvements to our world.
To download the Active Worlds educational browser you need to first go to http://www.activeworlds.com/edu. Our world is listed on the left hand column and its called SciScape.