Mind Probe On-Air

USA Networks, Convergence Lab 1998

Project Description: I served as the Chief technical architect in the design and implementation of a simultaneous live television and web-based broadcast of a game-show format program utilizing telephony as a controller. I developed a real-time synthetic virtual studio that was controlled by various motion sensors attached to actors. I participated in the concept development and collaborated with 3D designers, actors, writers, and television producers to create this prototype.

This was a collaboration with Der Hong Yang, Matt Ledderman, Sharleen Smith, Jamie Biggar, Leo Villareal and Tracy White.

Technical Notes:� The main game control was written in Macromedia Director.� The face tracking was done using Danny Rozin's Xtra for Macromedia Director and custom headgear.� The DTMF decoding and call progress were done using pci cards.� The virtual world was done created and rendered in Cosmo as VRML.� The control of the VRML was done as a Java Applet.� All networking was done using TCP/IP socket connections.