DesignSpace

Virtual Space as a Medium

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The medium of DesignSpace is "virtual space", an imaginary computational ether in which objects and events of order 3 and higher can be represented. The use of virtual space as a communication medium for ideas and design models is certainly not a new one; for example every computer simulation of events, objects, and images in three dimensions uses virtual space as a medium. Furthermore, the development of displays of this information (communication from the model to the user) has been quite good; image rendering, flight simulators, stereo-graphics, holograms, tactile and haptic displays, 3D audio and acoustics, and virtual reality, are a few examples. However, the means of communicating the information from the designers' imagination to the virtual space model has been poorly addressed, and this is the basis for our DesignSpace research.

See also the discussion on presence in DesignSpace.

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