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| − | '''Folkways in Wonderland (FiW)''' is ( | + | '''Folkways in Wonderland (FiW)''' is (cyber [world) music], an immersive, collaborative virtual reality environment facilitating a new way to browse world music. FiW users are represented by in-world avatars, who inhabit a giant cylindrical map of the world, 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. and browse metadata, as well as communicate via text or voice chat, or enjoy preprogrammed tours. |
| − | FiW | + | 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. |
'''[http://129.128.99.34:8080/wonderland-web-front/ Click here] to launch FiW.''' | '''[http://129.128.99.34:8080/wonderland-web-front/ Click here] to launch FiW.''' | ||
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| − | ''FiW is a collaboration between Professor Michael Cohen and | + | ''FiW is a collaboration between Professor Michael Cohen and his doctoral student Rasika Ranaweera at the [http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/e-index.html University of Aizu], Professor Michael Frishkopf and folkwaysAlive! at the University of Alberta, and Smithsonian Folkways at the Smithsonian Institution.'' |
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Revision as of 06:41, 7 January 2013
Folkways in Wonderland (FiW) is (cyber [world) music], an immersive, collaborative virtual reality environment facilitating a new way to browse world music. FiW users are represented by in-world avatars, who inhabit a giant cylindrical map of the world, 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. and browse metadata, as well as communicate 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 launch FiW.
or type: http://bit.ly/fiwonder
Relevant articles and academic papers:
- FiW (folkways in Wonderland): [cyber(world]music).
- "Folkways in Wonderland: A Cyberworld Laboratory for Ethnomusicology"[1], (Rasika Ranaweera, Michael Frishkopf, and Michael Cohen), in Proceeding CW '11: 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.
