Project Team: Hyunghwan Byun, Emily (Ai-Li) Chang, Maria Montenegro, Alex Moser, Christina Tarn
Instructors: Shirley Saldamarco, Ruth Comley
Fall 2014
Marioneta is an ETC student project working with the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum to update Virpets, a legacy ETC project which began in 2001 and remains an active exhibit in the museum. We are creating an installation which presents puppets in a 3D virtual reality environment, which museum guests can control with their bodies via the Microsoft Kinect 2. The puppets featured in our project are based on a collection of puppets donated to the Children’s Museum by Margo Lovelace, most of which are too delicate to be played with. We aim to create an engaging and intuitive experience which appeals to guests of all ages.