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What is a CAVE Good For?

Posted by Cliff on from the searching-for-the-killer-app dept.

ynakai asks: "Today, I had the fortune to be allowed to play with demo applications in a CAVE. This technology is stunning, but what is the killer app? A staffer said that despite the potential use as a teaching tool for medical students, the system is rarely used now except by digital artists (who admittedly create some stunning experiences - try the VRML versions of some). Surely Slashdot can think up better ways to make use of a multimillion dollar room of fully immersive 3D interaction, besides FPS games?"

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  1. Blantant Plug -- Got a CAVE -- Use Ensight! by bats · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My company, CEI, Inc., makes a product called EnSight that's used in CAVE environments. EnSight is a general purpose scientific visualization tool used in a broad variety of fields. Take a look at the pretty pictures on our website. Fields include astrophysics, professional motorsports, crash test simulations, industrial production simulation, biomedical, aerospace vehicle design, etc. Really high end visualization happens in a CAVE environment with 3-D goggles and head tracking equipment. This lets you move around through your simulation, look at things from different perspectives and even look from inside out. Most of these things are driven by big SGI boxes, but clustered (read linux) solutions are becoming more viable.

    EnSight -- See what you're missing! (Please mod accordingly for cheese content.)

  2. Two words by Rick+the+Red · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Stellar Cartography.

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    If all this should have a reason, we would be the last to know.