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− | '''Folkways in Wonderland (FiW)''' is (cyber [world) music], an immersive, collaborative virtual reality environment facilitating a new way to browse world | + | '''Folkways in Wonderland (FiW)''' is (cyber [world) music], an immersive, collaborative virtual reality environment facilitating a new way to browse music of the world. FiW users are represented by avatars inhabiting a giant cylindrical map, in which a selection of geotagged [http://www.folkways.si.edu/ Smithsonian Folkways] track segments are embedded as virtual speakers generating spatial sound. Users can navigate freely, listen to tracks together, browse metadata, communicate with one another via text or voice chat, or enjoy preprogrammed tours. |
FiW is built with [http://openwonderland.org/ Open Wonderland], a 100% Java open source toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds. To run FiW you must install [http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp Java] on your computer. | FiW is built with [http://openwonderland.org/ Open Wonderland], a 100% Java open source toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds. To run FiW you must install [http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp Java] on your computer. |
Revision as of 07:20, 7 January 2013
Folkways in Wonderland (FiW) is (cyber [world) music], an immersive, collaborative virtual reality environment facilitating a new way to browse music of the world. FiW users are represented by avatars inhabiting a giant cylindrical map, in which a selection of geotagged Smithsonian Folkways track segments are embedded as virtual speakers generating spatial sound. Users can navigate freely, listen to tracks together, browse metadata, communicate with one another via text or voice chat, or enjoy preprogrammed tours.
FiW is built with Open Wonderland, a 100% Java open source toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds. To run FiW you must install Java on your computer.
Click here to access the FiW page, then click the "Launch" button to download the file Wonderland.jnlp. Double-click this file to start the FiW cyberworld.
or type the memorable URL shortener: http://bit.ly/fiwonder
Articles and academic papers:
- Constructing a cyberworld laboratory for ethnomusicology, by Michael Davies-Venn (July 28, 2011)
- "Folkways in Wonderland: A Cyberworld Laboratory for Ethnomusicology"[1], (Rasika Ranaweera, Michael Frishkopf, and Michael Cohen), in Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Cyberworlds, Pages 106-112, IEEE Computer Society Washington, DC, USA ©2011
- "(virtual [world) music]: Virtual world, world music: Folkways in Wonderland" in Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Principles and Applications of Spatial Hearing, Zao, Miyagi, Japan, November 2009. (co-authored: Rasika Ranaweera, Michael Cohen, Nick
FiW is a collaboration between Professor Michael Cohen and his doctoral student Rasika Ranaweera at the University of Aizu, Professor Michael Frishkopf and folkwaysAlive! at the University of Alberta, and Smithsonian Folkways at the Smithsonian Institution.