Purpose: Create a multimedia system to quickly acclimate soldiers to new environments. The project ran a car with four cameras through the streets of Aspen, Colo., to film ahead, behind and to both sides, then reproduced the images on touchscreens that enabled viewers to navigate through the city.
Fate: The project was a precursor to virtual reality technology.
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