Virtual Reality/CAVE Software?

WorthlessManatee asks: "I work for a company that is in the beginning stages of constructing our own CAVE and I would like some advice on a few topics. Which hardware vendors should I go through? I know of Fakespace, but are there other vendors I should be looking at? What software solution works best for a CAVE? So far I know of: VR Juggler, DIVERSE, and CAVELib? What are the pros and cons of each of them? Answers to these questions and any other hints or experiences you would care to share would be most appreciated. Thank you very much."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Ah, the truness. I usually just ask google how to do my job. It's much smarter than slashdot anyways. One day I hope google will just do all our jobs for us.

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[Kalak]

You obviously have no knowledge what so ever about CAVEs or you would know that this Ask /. has at least done some homework. Enough to know that there are competing libraries for use in a CAVE, and that there are strengths and weaknesses to them. While /. may not the best place to ask for opinions on a CAVE, I can't think (or find even after some effort) of a better place to ask. There is no CAVE newsgroup or mailing list to Google (which was actually a suprise, but in some ways not a suprise from the politics of CAVEs that I've heard about). Slashdot at least has a chance of finding some with experience, and it sure beats asking K5 in that regard!

Basically, if you don't know anything about the subject being asked, don't assume anyone else does either. WorthlessManatee has done more homework that this troll. If you don't have anything to add, there is no need to insult the questioner.

To add actually add to the topic, I have met some of the programmers who have worked on DIVERSE (there is a CAVE across the hall at work), and they seem a smart bunch, but I haven't actually been in a CAVE since before DIVERSE was a pilot project, so I can't say if the libraries are good or not.