2002 | Virtual Operation Room | Delft Science Center

Virtual Operation Room

A time-based architecture for the augmented body. The Virtual Operation Room is a game developed for the Museum of Technology in Delft (04.10.02 - 25.05.03) by the ONL office in association with Hyperbody Research Group · Both aim at the practice and the research on interactive and e-motive architecture · Just like cars, websites and other vehicles, buildings become more and more sensitive and intelligent and start to respond, act and surprise · In order to study and practice e-motive architecture we build parametric environments and interactive interfaces to communicate with active worlds · Actual architectural concepts like e-motive architecture, time-based architecture, programmable architecture, free form styling, swarm behaviour and genetic algorithms come together in a game for the Technology Museum in Delft [Virtual Operation Room] · The VOR features a responsive geometry, responsive to actions of the players of the VOR game · In the BODYPORT [Christian Friedrich] the player navigates through its avatar into the entrance space, a kneadable vertex swarm which reacts to the movements of the player · From the BODYPORT you can choose three different worlds to get in to, using a joystick as the input device: the BRAIN [Sven Blokker], the PURIFICATOR [Chris Kievid] and the FLOW [Michael Bittermann] · In each of these highly responsive and pro-active worlds the player learns about the bodily system by acting, by pointing at sweet spots, by shooting cells, by killing cancerous growth · After having gained insight in the dynamics of the complex adaptive system of the human bodily system by collecting points, you can transfer yourself to one of the other worlds · The VOR claims to be a future [2010 and beyond] self-diagnosis tool and a concept for an auto-curing health game · The player experiences the self as an augmented body ·