Virtually New York

Defy gravity at Newyorkexitnewyork, a 3-D interactive exhibit taking shape at Siggraph in July. With a joystick as your guide, you can fly through the urban chaos – brushing the underbellies of taxicabs and climbing the walls of storied skyscrapers. French multimedia artists Priam Givord and Martin Lenclos spent a year and a half constructing […]

Defy gravity at Newyorkexitnewyork, a 3-D interactive exhibit taking shape at Siggraph in July. With a joystick as your guide, you can fly through the urban chaos - brushing the underbellies of taxicabs and climbing the walls of storied skyscrapers. French multimedia artists Priam Givord and Martin Lenclos spent a year and a half constructing this 2.5-square-mile virtual cityscape (www.newyorkexitnewyork.com). The pair shot videotape, took measurements, and snapped more than 6,000 photos of New York, then tweaked reality with Virtools Dev 2.0 software. "We had a point to prove concerning computer graphics and real-time 3-D," says Givord. What they came up with is the surfing experience of the next decade.

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Virtually New York
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Rinse 'n' Read
Read Me
Fighting Fire
Cyberman
Tadpole
Armitage: Dual-Matrix
Next-Gen Multiplayer Online Games
Stunt Driving From the Sofa
Turn Your PS2 Into a PC
Puppet Master
Sim Studio
Audiovent Studio
Julia Fordham
The Makers
Fetish
Setting Up Base
Instant Readouts
On-the-Fly Typing
Char Warriors
Good-Bye CD Towers
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