This paper presents WAVE a Virtual Audio Environment, which embraces the implementation of an immersive musical instrument model that uses three-dimensional (3D) sound techniques combined with visualisation and virtual reality technologies.
Jakobson emphasizes that there was no modification of their timing in post-production, as she wanted to stay true to the immersive aspect of the instrument such that viewers are literally seeing the sound in a new material form as they listen to it.
Simulations, handy laboratory instruments, robotics, immersive digital environments, technologies that enable students to create movies, games, and now (with 3D printing) physical working models all these can provide valuable support for knowledge building, but community knowledge building requires that outputs from such sources become objects for group discourse and continuing discovery.
So the game becomes an immersive environment, one giant musical instrument, where players interact with music through the characters, and the narrative is evoked through the sounds and atmosphere these create.
For one recent project, they teamed up with a group of young offenders to turn a shipping container into an immersive audiovisual installation, featuring recorded orchestral instruments and found sounds.
The exhibition presents Björk's oeuvre in many layers, with instruments, a theatrical presentation, an immersive sound experience, a focused audio guide, and related visualizations, from photography and music videos to new media works.
Improved optics and communication instruments are making robotic exploration increasingly immersive, but these tools haven't been able to replicate the depth perception, peripheral vision and sense of place that comes with physical human presence.
"When they touch and trigger vibrations of luminous threads tensed inside the church, the notes associated to each thread are played," resulting in an immersive acoustic experience that marries the discipline of playing an instrument with the art of play. .
Installations include The Earth Harp, billed as the world's biggest stringed instrument, and A Girl's Bedroom, from writer-director Enda Walsh, a free 20-minute immersive experience.
Besides adding interest, Daphne Bavelier at the University of Rochester, New York, says that by effortlessly focusing our attention, immersive environments can also improve "perceptual learning" – the kind of memory that allows you to learn a musical instrument, or a foreign language, and which normally shuts down after childhood.
