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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. Calculus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I love it.

  2. RNG! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Russ Nelson's Glasses!

  3. Ever been to the zoo?... by digitalunity · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    See the signs where it says:
    'Don't feed the animals'?
    It should read:
    'Don't feed the trolls!'

    --
    You can't legislate goodness. Let each to his own destiny, by will of his freely made choices.
    1. Re:Ever been to the zoo?... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Don't feed the trolls!

      Why not, would you just let the poor trolls starve to death?

    2. Re:Ever been to the zoo?... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Letting a troll starve to death is like letting a Taliban towel-head starve; it's ok. It really is. The more you do it, the easier it gets.

    3. Re:Ever been to the zoo?... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Fucking racist bastard.

      Free John Walker! The American revolution was fought for nothing if fighting for your own beliefs is now treason.

  4. Emersive AI VR by Mentifex · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Aw, gee, I'm getting tired of telling a disputacious and dismissive SlashDot world about the grand happenings in subversive Artificial Intelligence. Maybe they'll believe it when they emerse -- no, wait a holominute, that word is incorrect -- immerse themselves in virtual reality (VR) amid a known or unknown population of artificially intelligent Virtual Entities.

    Then all these genius SlashDotters will wake up and schmell the Kofi, when they virt-realize that Visual Basic Mind.VB and Java-based Mind.Java are for real and are bearing down on their supercilious posteriors with ineluctable, inescapable Technological Singularity.

    Now, don't phreak out, but the next time your holodeck emerses you from ordinary reality into virtual reality, take a look around you at some of the co-resident weirdos that you may meet. Happy holodecking!

  5. bad troller by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I've read a lot of your previous trolls. This one seems uncreative and unimaginative. You couldn't come up with something better? You're target audience are a bunch of geeks, you should be used to being called cock suckers and faggots. You should say something bad about what they really car about. Like some of your Linux Sux or Linux is dying shit. That's the good stuff.

    Keep up the trollin.

  6. Jeeeeez I am a dump fucking shit but.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    We need some literate peeps submitting to Slashdot.