We’re excited to see this follow up teaser video on the Immersive Cocoon concept, but left desiring to see much more. I-Cocoon is an immersive and naturally intuitive digital dome experience that provides an entirely new interface to interact with technology in a three dimensional space. The Immersive Cocoon’s design was conceptualized by NAU, lead by Tino Shaedler a production designer, art director and trained architect. The film is produced by Oliver Zeller, demonstrates the idea behind an intuitive multi-sensory experience in a setting inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.

At the core of Immersive Cocoon is a 3D motion tracking system developed by John Underkoffler, a former fellow of the MIT Media Lab, inspired by the technology seen in Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report. This system would track body positions utilizing a series of motion tracking cameras and floor pad sensors.

Monitoring these points allows realistic motion of the user to be recreated in virtual space and lets the user navigate menus through predetermined hand gestures or voice commands. These movements are fed through compact processor units in the base, and the visual output on the LED display domes is refreshed instantly. Users can fight a kung-fu game or swim through a sea of jellyfish, with the display responding in real-time with surround vision.

For a limited time, the Vortex Immersive Dome featured at the Immersive Tech Summit has some amazing shows available for the public. Get a $5 discount when you use discount code: ImTech

Be sure to check it out .. if you missed it at this year’s Immersive Tech Summit, here’s your chance!

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Submission video for Siggraph 2009 Emerging Technologies demonstrating VGate (Virtualization Gate) a new platform for immersive interaction. By Inria and 4DViews.

The Virtusphere is (as the name suggests) a large hollow sphere which sits on a set of computer monitored wheels. This allows the sphere to rotate a complete 360º whilst still allowing the computer to track the movments.

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The Omni-Directional Treadmill (ODT) is a revolutionary device for locomotion in large-scale virtual environments. The device allows its user to walk or jog in any direction of travel.
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Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik. The Human Perception, Cognition and Action Department

JoAnn Kuchera-Morin demos the AlloSphere, an entirely new way to see and interpret scientific data, in full color and surround sound inside a massive metal sphere. Dive into the brain, feel electron spin, hear the music of the elements … (Recorded at TED2009, February 2009, in Long Beach, California. Duration: 06:28.)

Allosphere is a three-story, multi- modal-dimensional-sensory, way for a group of collaborators to interact with complex data.  The experience brings to mind the subtle interactions of a string quintet, each in turn leading then following then combining their skills to sum greater than their parts.  Allosphere brings individual visionaries of the arts and entertainment community together in harmony–ultimately creating new expressive possibilities.

By truly immersing a group of well prepared collaborators in their data visually, aurally and temporally, together they are able to grasp data relationships that were simply too complex to understand before…