NEW at the CHILDREN'S MUSEUM!

MAZE Teen Virtual Reality Game

Click here to see the MAZE in action!

The metaField Maze is a virtual, room-sized recreation of the traditional marble maze game. Instead of using knobs to control the play, the player walks over a projected 3D model of the game. When the player steps left or right, the model tips and the ball moves accordingly. The player must attempt to run the full course of the maze while avoiding the holes.

The Virtango Maze is based upon the metaField Maze created by Bill Keays at the MIT Media Lab as a research project in Ron MacNeil's Intelligent Graphics Group. Assistance was provided by Tim McNerney, and John Underkoffler. It has been exhibited at SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, the Boston Museum of Science, Zeum in San Francisco, The MIT Museum, the London Millennium Dome, the Siemens Forum in Berlin, Cirque du Soleil, the MTV Europe Music Awards and the Interaction Biennale in Japan.

Contact us at 884-2226 or jim@cmnn.org if you have any questions!

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