Here comes the commitment of Prof. Gary Rohrbacher from AtFab, Kentucky, to be responsible for the development of the virtual fablab within the vistom initiative:
„To understand new potentials of designing and constructing things and environments within a virtual world, this investigation will start by constructing virtual 3d printers and CNC routers for the virtual Han. Once we’ve built and made functioning virtual versions of these tools, we can examine where they’re still relevant and in what ways they may have become absurd. What is the substance that a virtual 3d printer would ‘print’ with? What would be the utility or reason for having the ability to cut a virtual material? Is there more to a virtual substance than texture, surface and image? Are some methods better than others when assembling and making connections within virtual constructs? Through a better understanding of the freedoms and constraints of virtual worlds, we’re hoping to discover new potentials for virtual materials and methods of design and fabrication.“
