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Monday, August 19, 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/19/arts/design/19ARTS.html In Three Dimensions, Words Take Flight. Literally. MATTHEW MIRAPAUL Robert Coover stood in the middle of the dark room, reading. He turned to view the section of the short story being projected on the wall to his right, then pointed his computer mouse at it. When he clicked, the word "just" seemed to peel away from the wall and drift across the space until it hovered, waist high, in front of him. Mr. Coover's reading room on this hot August day was a virtual-reality chamber at Brown University. When viewers put on stereoscopic glasses and enter the space, the computer-generated text and images that are displayed on its walls and floor appear three dimensional. Viewers can watch as words materialize and swirl through the air around them, or they can step into a rotating cube to see an E. E. Cummings quotation that has been digitally inscribed on two of the walls. It is as if the words have sprung to life....
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