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Joe Shen, Video Artist and Computer Programmer

  • Interactive Music and Video Performances
  • Kinetic Sculptures and Cybernetic Arts
  • Interactive Learning and Training
  • Virtual Reality Constructions
  • Hypermedia Presentations
  • Interactive Video Games
  • Motion Tracking
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  • Digital Designer

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    An OpenGL application that allows users to model and view 3D shapes with their physical properties in realtime.

  • Video Scanner

    A media player that displays frames smoothly in varying speed either forward or backward using a mouse or trackball.

  • Stop Motion Animation

    A video frame recorder and playback device that allows users to create their own stop motion animation.

  • Finger Paint

    A touchscreen paint program that allows viewers to select colors and paint directly on the screen.

  • Touchscreen Keyboard

    A simple touchscreen application that emulates a keyboard for users to enter their email addresses.

  • Windows CyberScapetm Software

    CyberScape version 4.1 is now available on the Windows 2000/XP platform. This port is based on the successful Amiga and PC/DOS version of the CyberScape with many new enhancements and error fixes incorporated.

    Description

    CyberScape software is currently being used on many commercial and research virtual reality projects around the world. It is a cost-effective and non-intrusive alternative to the more expensive and cumbersome goggle/glove VR systems.

    CyberScape uses the Projected Reality metaphor by which the person or subject is immersed in the virtual world through a video camera, sometimes called the Mirrored Reality, or simply Second-Person Camera-Based VR - the same metaphor used in VideoPlace systems by Myron Krueger, Mandala systems by the Vivid Group, systems from InVideo Systems, REALWare?systems from CCG MetaMedia, and software from Reality Fusion. The actor, with no strings attached, interacts with on screen objects to trigger graphics and sound events.

    This type of man-machine interface is inherently intuitive and well suited for group participation and communication applications. Besides, the health and hygene issues that concern many goggle/glove users simply does not apply here. In addition to the camera interface, CyberScape also allows you to use any MIDI compatible controllers to control actors in the scene.

    CyberScape is a script-based, event-driven, multi-threaded authoring software that uses a physics-based 2D animation engine as its core. For example, a complete two-team volley ball experience can be constructed with about 200 lines of code. Today, CyberScape is the only software of this kind available on the market. We strive to bring this emerging technology to within the reach of average system integrators, producers and end users. A complete CyberScape system costs between $5,000 and $10,000 USD.

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  • Free Amiga CyberScape

    Dear Amiga friends,

    Thank you for sharing your Amiga visions with me in the past. Since I no longer support this wonderful platform, I am making the following software available to you and hoping that you can continue to use and enhance the Amiga version of CyberScape.

    I released this program commercially in 1991 and continued improving it until 1996. I am the sole programmer and the copyright owner of this program. Please drop me a note if you download it and I appreciate any feedback that you may have on it.

    Live! frame grabber from A-squared is required to interact with real-time video.

    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

    Joe Shen
    12/22/97

    The limit is beyond your imagination!