From: cyberoid@stein.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) Subject: EVENT: Freedom Celebration, San Francisco, July 4, 1993 Date: 30 Jun 1993 07:13:10 GMT Organization: WORLDESIGN, Seattle Crossposted from the WELL's (192.132.30.2) vr conference: Topic 44: VR Event Announcements #326: Peter Rothman (avatarp) Mon, Jun 28, '93 (17:50) 85 lines FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Freedom Celebration on July 4th will be first 3D televirtual-reality entertainment event SAN FRANCISCO--The Freedom celebration on the Fourth of July will link thousands of celebrants in San Francisco and Los Angeles for an unprecedented, futuristic entertainment experience. The event will celebrate our new freedom--virtual travel in cyberspace--as people in the two cities break down the barriers of time and space by dancing and playing together via hyperrealistic stereoscopic 3D, using broadband telecommunications links in this first-ever experiment in social VR telepresence. Up to 10,000 people at the Bay Area's largest indoor venue--the 130,000 square foot San Francisco Concourse Expo Hall at 7th & Brannan--will: - Reach out and (virtually) touch someone 400 miles away. Linking the events in real time will be Enter Corporation's advanced technology using life-size 3D stereoscopic video screens, as in the Wild Palms TV miniseries. (Each participant in San Francisco and Los Angeles will receive 3D glasses they can keep.) - Travel around the world interactively through virtual 3D Tokyo, Times Square, Kyoto, San Francisco, and other exotic locales. - Put on goggles and dodge Pterodactyls and fellow humans inside exotic new virtual worlds in one of the largest multiperson public VR experiences. - Hear Dr. Timothy Leary's live animated lecture: How to Operate Your Brain, with overload audiovideo by Retinal Logic. - Experience 80,000 watt innovative 3D surround sound--another first--mixed by some of the hottest house DJs from around the country. - Jam on the VuJak audio/video sampling/jamming do-it- yourself real-time music video production system in its world premier. - Play the virtual-touch Mandala system, which transports you into virtual worlds where you play musical instruments and games (by touching imaginary videographic objects, such as drums and soccer balls), draw pictures, and trigger VuJak video/music riffs. - View 3D stereoscopic video effects and slides by Enter Corporation, laser projection by Laser Fantasy, and video effects by Hyperdelic Video and Rose-X, including images projected on dancers. - Experience weightlessness inside Orbitron human- gyroscope games. - Explore the frontiers of the mind in computerized mind machines. - Jack into real-time cyberspace via online terminals tied to Internet and BBSs. - Browse over a dozen vendors of cool cyberstuff, from fractal tee shirts to holographic jewelry and smart drinks. - Any many other surprises.... The Freedom event is a joint production by CyberMind Corporation, a newly-formed developer of innovative entertainment and education environments; Enter Corporation, a full-service virtual entertainment system and content design company; and Modern Entertainment, a premier Bay Area events coordinator. Tickets are $25. Call 1-800-49-CYBER. In Los Angeles, the event is at Om Labs, 1201 E. Fifth Street. Tickets are $5; call 213-683-3800.