To Do list April 2007
- Specs for Jean
- Spec out camera and decide who provides it
- Mac compatible webcam
- Specify wall mount
- Firewire extension/long chord
- 2 PCs for running SL
- USB Mouse and Keyboards
- No onboard graphics cards
- Make sure they can drive the big screen (TVs vs. monitors – spec out monitors?)
- Vitrine
- Approximate Dimensions: 10 feet long by 3 feet wide by 42” tall
- Plexi glass cover
- Contents: The artifacts – Henrik sniffs in the Archive for the following:
- Scrapbook
- Original Dante Images
- Reciept
- Film Reel
- Pedestal (describe use and approximate dimensions)
- For SL user controls (custom keyboard)
- Something to operate whilst standing
- SL
- Does this take place on NEWare or do we get another island?
- Jeff checks on deals on new islands - dropped this idea, using a closed-off part of NEWare, including Dante construct
- Should the space be redesigned? Yes! made more compact.
- Top down overview sketch
- Take screenshot of current configuration
- The SL exhibit room - Done
- Do we place more than one two way mirrors?
- Avatar related
- How do we keep avatars awake? Seif
- How do we send an inactive avatar home? Seif
- Access list
- Who gets on this?
- Gene Ware
- Roberta Ware
- ssofft Ware
- Motorato Ware
- Jeff Ware
- Liebenwalde Ware
- Archeolog Ware
- Seifert Surface
- Lys Ware
- Bob Ware
- Camera Ware :) (not hidden) Seif
- Should we designate tour guides to give an idea of the social nature of the space
- Volunteers or paid people?
- Write more documentation to put in SL
- Two way mirror
- Where do we place the camera relative to the screen?
- Out looking in to achieve recursive effect
- What is the backup?
- A looping video of the exhibit space?
- Looping still images
- Hidden avatar whose view we are seeing
- Scripted view? Seif
- How to hide? Seif
- Hide UI? Seif
- Web/Catalogue
- Should iterations of the Wiki be a part of the exhibit
- Show exhibit page iterations? In SL? Slide show?
- Catalogue/Printed images?
- Hardware
- Programmable keyboard/pad (arrow keys only) – Jeff & Henrik investigates
- Do people get a mouse?
- How do we “hide” the machines?
- How do we let museum people interact with these
- What goes on the looping DVD?
- Things to order
- Hi-rez shots of Gene in red outfit - Done: get Hi-rez Gene portraits here.
- 15 – 20 photo prints – SL screenshots (2 of each)
- 3D models (2 of each)
- Roberta and Gene? Henrik
- The regenerated Dante?
*Other software
- Remote control software
- Timbuktu – Henrik (cross platform)
Final stuff
- Write comprehensive documentation for people maintaining the exhibit in Montreal (PDF format)
- Do a final dress rehearsal at Stanford before shipping to Canada (early August)
- Have things ready to ship by early to mid August
- Complete itemized specification of what we ship
Budget
The two way mirror:
The workstation:
- HP Workstation - $1499
- Gamepad - $ 25
- Mouse - ?
- Pedestal/table (for gamepad and mouse) - ?
For hanging on wall:
- Two large screens - ?
- Pictures and frames - ?
3D Printouts:
Software:
- Creating a custom version of the SL client - ?
The Movie
- DVD and screen for playing looped version of the L2 movie - ?
To Do
Basic premises
- Planned exhibits (As of February 2007):
- Montreal starting September 18th 2007; lasting 3 months
- San Francisco starting February 2008; lasting 3 months
- We should create a 10 minute experience
Archived artifacts
- RL artifacts shows the beginning of the trail. We should get an overview over what relevant items are in the library's archive and decide which we should use.
- Printed Photos from the SL archive (maybe motives could be SL version of out RL shots)
Interactive components
- Give museum audience limited interactive options by taking a client and removing functionality
- These functionalities should have access to them removed :
- UI
- Flying and teleporting functionality
- Building
- IMs
- Complicated procedures such as unlocking the door in the regenerated hotel should be made simpler
- Other problems:
Mixed reality component
The basic idea is that we create workstations in a contained space in the museum with a door leading out to the rest of the museum. This space is recreated in SL, but the door leads to our archive making it feel along the lines of augmented reality.
- The two way mirror
- Hang a large monitor on the wall in the contained space in both realities
- The museum monitors looks from the physical space into the contained space in SL
- The SL monitor looks out at the physical space via a webcam. TO DO Henrik investigates how to make this work. (this is in progress)
- Streaming server with webcam is installed and tested successfully. See Personal recursion: reality loop
Two version/Shards
- Contained version for the museum
- TODO: Lynn writes Robin about getting an offline version & Henrik investigates libsecondlife and opensim
- Can LL make a copy of NEWare for us?
- This is a question of willingness, not a technical issue: LL provides rollback service for regions, so the backup data is available.
- “Normal” SL version
Hard- and Software needs
- 2 Workstations. Standard off the shelf pcs with reasonable screens
- 1 "One way mirror" pc.
- Potential extra computers for fixed perspective screens (every individual screen takes another computer to run)
Other Issues
*Is there a way to remote control the pcs?
Posted at Mar 28/2007 07:50PM by lynn hershman:
Very good and comprehensive, but we need still a
cohesive budget
how many pc's and joy stick and stands
how many monitors and what size
We need to create the Roberta avatar, and add the roberta files
I'd like to see exactly what we will need by monday and a budget to figure out how we can design this.
