Infinite City 360 By Studio IMC

CINE is an augmented environment for entertainment, information visualization, and education. Pronounced “sign”, the environment’s name is a reference to urban street signage, sign language, and sine waves. CINE utilizes full-body gesture control, immersive 3D visualizations, virtual physics, and multi-channel sound in order to engage participants in a magical, collaborative experience that enhances creativity, learning, and civic engagement. As a networked computing platform that exists in immersive dynamic spaces, CINE thinks outside of the PC box with displays and interfaces that fill entire rooms and that exist in urban public spaces. Our goal in building CINE is to question the cultural forces that threaten innovation and to explore new models for computer-mediated collaboration and group expression that encourage play: models of collaboration that break down the barriers between people as well as between virtual and real spaces. CINE is a democratic communications tool that fosters dialog and strengthens the public sphere while offering a compelling, aesthetic vision of the future of gesture-controlled, immersive worlds.

by James Tunick, Miro Kirov, Houston Riley, & Bradley Leinhardt