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University of Illinois uses a Cluster for Immersive VR

Posted by chrisd on from the since-I'm-remodeling-my-basement-anyhow dept.

It seems the folks down at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created a 6-sided CAVE like system called ALICE. But, instead of running it off of a SGI Onyx, they've developed a distributed environment for visualization called Syzygy. Slap a few computers together and make your own holodeck!

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  1. Re:roll your own by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Cornell Theory Center (www.tc.cornell.edu)
    has a 3-wall cave setup that uses 3 off the shelf dell workstations running w2k and software from vrco.com. Seems to Just Work; I played quake on it a couple months ago.

  2. Iowa State's Immersive Environments by john@iastate.edu · · Score: 3, Informative

    ISU has probably the premier researcher in this area, Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira. Here's some info on the environments at ISU: C6 and more...

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