The CURTAIN 2024 VR

VR IMMERSIVE INTERACTIVE VIDEOART ANIMATION  https://vimeo.com/791469431

Interactive non-narrative experience

 

Synopsis

 

Definition

_"a piece of material suspended at the top to form a screen, typically movable sideways along a rail and found as one of a pair at a window"

_"a hanging screen usually capable of being drawn back or up especially : window drapery"

_"a device or agency that conceals or acts as a barrier"

_ "a piece of material, especially cloth, that hangs across a window or opening to make a room or part of a room dark or private"

 

 

STATEMENT

-Spiral is a natural shape and an intrinsic movement of nature  

-The movement of our solar system is directly relate to Helical Motion

-Helical and spiral are symbols of the evolution of the universe 

-Blue colour is used as an open space, as expansiveness.

This interactive videoart installation is based on an experimental interactive evolutionary video animation  software

 

 CREDITS

Created/directed/produced by                                  Anabela Costa

Music by                                                                  Michel Titin-Schnaider

Image generation and Video animation        by                 Anabela Costa

Application development/ programming/modelling   by Tomàs Franco

 

 

 DESCRIPTION /INTERACTION

  

_The user is inside a tube, (3D construction) which is the inside of an helicoidal spiral that will go slightly up.

_As it is in alpha channel the user can see the continuing spiral tube above, down and side.

_The user is moving inside de spiral.

_Inside the tube will have in both sides bars/curtains that he can pull with the touch controllers, then a video/curtain will screen during ….. minutes, blocking the walk, after you can proceed the walk inside the tube.

_Other images/curtain will also suddenly appear in a random way, in alpha channel, during …...seconds, also blocking the walk

_Getting at the top,a film will appear and you have the right to see it till the end.

The end of the film will  make the 3D structure disappear, vanishing itself and you will be automatically at the beginning/entrance of the tube, of the installation.

Nevertheless the user may choose not to proceed till the top, or not see the film till the end,,in that case he will go down, with all the obstacles, as he had go up 

_Inside the tube there is a musical ambiance

 

 

 

 

   

  

 

VR HEADSET

 

QUEST 2 or compatible

Component	Recommended specs	Minimum specs
Processor	Intel i5-4590/AMD Ryzen 5 1500X or greater	Intel i3-6100/AMD Ryzen 3 1200, FX4350 or greater
Graphics card	NVIDIA GTX 1060/AMD Radeon RX 480 or greater	NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti/AMD Radeon RX 470 or greater
Alternative graphics card	NVIDIA GTX 970/AMD Radeon R9 290 or greater	NVIDIA GTX 960 4 GB/AMD Radeon R9 290 or greater
Memory	8 GB+ RAM	8 GB+ RAM
Operating system	Windows 10+	Windows 10+
USB ports (Rift)	3 x USB 3.0 ports, plus 1 x USB 2.0 port	1 x USB 3.0 port, plus 2 x USB 2.0 ports
Video output (Rift)	Compatible HDMI 1.3 video output	Compatible HDMI 1.3 video output

NOTE if possible to had a video projector/big flat screen, that in a large scale projection will show the public in general, the video that the user is creating and experimenting in an immersive way.