Davies

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Tree Pond. Digital frame captured in real-time through HMD (head-mounted display) during a live performance of immersive virtual environment Osmose (1995). Tree Pond is one of many environments the immersant travels through.

In 1995, Char Davies (Canadain artist, born 1954), a pioneering virtual artist created a virtual reality environment called "Osmose" in collaboration with programmers at SoftImage. The user (or immersant) enters the "space" by putting on headgear that contains goggles that show the space on tiny CRT monitors, and a vest that helps the user to navigate. As a scuba diver, Davies knew that by breathing in while diving, the air in her lungs would create buoyancy. In Osmose, the vest enables a user to move up and down through the space by inhaling and exhaling. There are a dozen "world-spaces" in Osmose, based on "the metaphysical aspects of nature." For Davies, the work is "a place for facilitating awareness of one's own self as consciousness embodied in enveloping space."

See Also

• Metaphors of Space
• Bolter
• Davies
• Concrete Poetry
• Memory and Space
• Cyberpunk
• Romantic Time
• Canning
• Minsky