After talking about Cave Augmented Virtual Environments the other day, reader Yossi pointed out that the Belgium band Willow recently utilized a CAVE in a music video for their song Sweater. The band put together a very neat sequence using the VR platform and incorporated a treadmill to allow the star of the video ‘walk’ through the virtual reality scene.
Willow Uses a CAVE in Sweater Music Video
As Yossi points out, the music video uses the same camera tracking technique for proper CAVE recording that we talked about the other day. To the user, the scene around him is actually distorted. The scene only looks correct from the viewpoint of the camera. You’ll also notice shadows on the CAVE walls which somewhat break the effect. They could have avoided this by using rear-projection (as most proper CAVEs do) instead of front projection. Still, a very cool and creative use of a CAVE. Check it out!
I think the highlight is when he jumps down the hole at the bottom of the ocean. Very cool! What did you think, was it convincing?