The Tech Virtual Test Zone

This gallery showcases the world's first hands-on, interactive exhibits conceptualized and developed originally in the virtual world of Second Life by people from all over the world. Exhibits feature the theme of Art, Film & Music.

Wall of Musical Buttons

Conceptualized by Jon Brouchoud, an architect and responsive environment designer in Madison, WI.

This exhibit demonstrates the fundamentals of harmonics and chord structure by allowing visitors to experiment with note intervals in familiar musical melodies.

Be a VJ

Conceptualized by Nick Chen, a musician and teacher of digital music at Blue Bear Music School in San Francisco, CA.

This exhibit showcases a representative variety of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) controllers, each mapped to a unique and innovative set of audio and video outputs.

Panoramic Photos

Conceptualized by Richard Milewski, a photographer in San Jose, CA (and Tech Museum member).

This exhibit demonstrates how to create panoramic and polar projectionm photos and explores the transformations involved in turning flat photos into a 360-degree panorama.

Mashup Masterpiece

Conceptualized by Marie Crandell, a photographer in San Jose, CA (and Tech Museum member).

This exhibit lets visitors enter the mind of an artist by observing the artistic process and adding their own creative modifications.

Tilty Table

Conceptualized by Jason Nelson, a digital artist and professor of dgital poetics in Gold Coast, Australia.

This exhibit lets visitors explore the artist's interpretation of "the shifting landscape of Silicon Valley" with an intuitive mechanical interface.

Human/Avatar

Conceptualized by Alan Hook and Pete Wardle, creative technologists at the University of Salford in Manchester, England.

This exhibit lets visitors explore the intersection between real and virtual space via a human-avatar streaming video portal.