Entertainment Technology Center Presents "Building Virtual Worlds," Dec. 8

Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center will present several interactive "virtual worlds" built by teams of students in an ETC project course at 5 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 8, in the University Center's McConomy Auditorium.

This semester, 50 students with backgrounds in art, architecture, design, drama, computer science, engineering, English, human-computer interaction, music, philosophy and psychology took an ETC course in which they worked in small teams to build interactive Virtual Reality Worlds. The ETC will share with the campus community the "best of the best" in a demonstration of the beauty, cleverness, creativity, humor and hard work that have characterized this course and its talented students.

Lasting approximately one hour, this exhibition will show a number of short Virtual Reality Worlds and other interactive pieces in which the audience will get to control the action. The exhibition will be followed by a reception where audience members can talk directly with the students and enjoy refreshments.

For more information on the show visit http://www.etc.cmu.edu/bvwshow

For more on the Entertainment Technology Center visit http://www.etc.cmu.edu