The Virtual SteinwayHere is an illustration I created for a software demo at AT&T. There was a group in my office who held a software demo of a Virtual Reality package, and how it could be used for business applications. After reading the material I was given, I defined Virtual Reality as "a world you could step into". So, what worlds do people want to step into? Flying a fighter bomber (I don't know how many battle games I see on pc's in my office), jumping a horse in the Olympics, and playing a Steinway Piano. I got rid of what I couldn't draw. |
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The flyer for the demo was a horse jumping a fence, going for the gold, and I do jump horses. The Steinway drawing is thirty-two by forty inches. I took a ruler and measured a real piano. It is a life size grand piano keyboard, with a pc screen, mouse, a Virtual Reality headset where the music stand would be, and the lid of the piano framing it. This was my pc at home at the time, and the idea was to put on the headpiece and pretend you are playing a Virtual Steinway. When my "Virtual Steinway" hung in my cube at work, it was at a level to invite people to play it. And they did. I had people walk in to my cubicle and try to play it. It took me over a hundred hours to draw, and is all pen and ink on foam coreboard, three by four feet. |