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  1. Indeed.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Microsoft's "RoomAlive" Transforms Any Room Into a Giant Xbox Game

    CAVE is a recursive acronym that stands for CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment. The CAVE is a projection-based VR display that was developed at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. It premeried at the SIGGRAPH 1992 conference.

    A friend of mine writes geological software for the oil industry. Back in the day (mid-late 1990s) Silicon Graphics used to come round once a year to show off their gear. Once they got to see their CAVE powered by some nice Irix servers...

  2. Prior Art: Check UIUC Cave by rs1n · · Score: 4, Informative · on Microsoft Patent Details Whole-Room Projection Game Environment

    This was already done by UIUC -- they have "caves" in the Beckman Institute that already do this, and I believe they even played Quake II in there.

    Beckman Institute Cave link: http://isl.beckman.illinois.edu/Labs/CAVE/CAVE.html

    Quake II in cave: http://www.visbox.com/prajlich/caveQuake/

  3. Re:Where's my holodeck? by hevenor · · Score: 1 · on Movie Theaters Aim for Live 3D Sports

    The holodeck is here but you probably can't afford one. The Cave is an immersive virutalization tool that projects on 4 surface (left, center, right, top) and reacts to feedback such as body position. I got to use one of these while working at a research center in London, Ontario.

    It's not quite the holodeck though, you can't run or you'll hit the wall. You navigate your space using a mouse. There is a ball that floats in space and by pinching your fingers you fix that ball relative to the space. By moving your hand you can move the space relative to you.

    The Cave was used where I worked to mock up things before preducing them in hopes of working out design flaws before you went to the trouble of building them. All that aside you could also play Quake!

  4. expensive projection systems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on 3D Virtualization Edges Toward the Mainstream
    "But even if PC clusters and off-the-shelf graphic cards are cheap, a state-of-the-art VR facility such as an immersive CAVE can still cost more than one million dollars, because you need to build the viewing facility and buy expensive projection systems."


    The cost of projection systems is dropping as well. Here is one example:


    http://www.visbox.com/

  5. display hardware details? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Pentagon's Ultimate Home Theater

    The article is very vague about the display hardware. Anybody know more? How is this different than the CAVE and other comparable systems?

    Immersive Displays:
    Fakespace Systems:
    http://www.fakespace.com/products1.shtml

    Visbox:
    http://www.visbox.com/x2.html

    Barco:
    http://www.barco.com/virtualreality

  6. Re:CAVE Hardware/Software by akhaksho · · Score: 1 · on Virtual Reality/CAVE Software?

    Don't forget Visbox. They build high end displays using commodity projectors and PCs. You can get all the performance of a Fakespace or Barco system at a fraction of the price.

  7. CaveQuake by deanj · · Score: 1 · on What is a CAVE Good For?
    Lots of folks like this app:

    caveQuake

    The guy that did that work is one of the princples of Visbox, a company that does high end displays. They were at Siggraph this past year.

  8. Re:Forgot tracker, space req. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Poor Man's Stereoscopic Projection


    Actually, mirror bounces are allowed with polarized projection as long as the angle is very small. This is what allows the Visbox (www.visbox.com) to have a 8' image even though the entire system is only 8' deep.

  9. How about one thats already built? by timbong · · Score: 1 · on University of Illinois uses a Cluster for Immersive VR

    Have you ever heard of the visbox? Its a cave system that is pre built and pre configured, www.visbox.com

  10. From the front line.. by cryptomancer · · Score: 1 · on NCSA To Build $53 Million, 13-Teraflop Facility
    Lemme tell ya, it was exciting to be in the room with the press conference. Well, that's a bit misleading, because many of the institutions participating in the DTF (Distributed Terascale Facility) were holding the press conference over the Grid, via the AccessGrid, with Intel an IBM and their invited press people dialed in over the phone. I'm at ANL, where the AG was born.. if before I started here. ;)

    Actually, I didn't stick around for as much of the press conference, 'cuz I had WORK to do! Many press releases on the DTF make it sound like it's one cluster in one lab's basement, and that ain't right. As importantly as looking at the distributed nature of the project, look at what each institution is contributing- this isn't a homogeneous wide-area cluster. I don't have a big part in it, and my internship is almost over, but I'd like to think that what I've been working on for over a year may become well-known soon. So yeah, while the press conference was going on I was in the next room working on enhancing a visualization library to work on tiled displays, (which has been news on /. recently. Too bad few managed to find our work here- We gots neet stuph).

    Now an obligatory Oh, puh-leeze! RC-5 cracking? Quake? We've already seen Quake3 in the CAVE. Listening to conversations at the reception, there are much cooler things coming..

    Cryptomancer, working the magic on code