Fakespace and University of Illinois to develop Digital CaveUrbana 14 August 2001 Fakespace Systems offers a digital version of the CAVE, and an upgrade kit to enhance existing immersive room environments with digital projection technology. The digital CAVE provides extremely bright, colorful, sharp and stable imagery, significantly expanding its power and flexibility for engineers, designers and researchers using visualization for enhanced collaboration and better understanding of complex volumetric data.
Fakespace Systems also announced that it has contracted to deliver a digital CAVE to Delta Search Labs, a privately funded research and development foundation focused on advances in the use of high-performance computing and visualization. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Delta Search Labs works in alliance with leading university researchers and commercial partners in the aerospace, automotive, biotechnology, informational technology, and petrochemical industries. The digital CAVE, scheduled for installation in September, will be used for visualization in dynamic collision simulation, computational fluid dynamics, biotechnology and other applications, and will serve as a test bed for new I/O devices that simplify ways in which engineers and scientists interact with data in real-time.
Developed at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), with input from Fakespace Systems, the digital CAVE incorporates new screen and reflective materials, and a new corner design that makes seams almost imperceptible. The digital stereo projection is based on either 5,000 lumen or 2,000 lumen DLP projectors, providing an immersive environment that is up to six times brighter than previously available CAVEs.
Originally invented in 1991 at UIC, the CAVE, which stands for Cave Automatic Virtual Environment, is recognized as the most significant display system developed for immersive design and research applications. Fakespace Systems has had the exclusive rights to manufacture and market the CAVE since 1995.
The digital CAVE, which is available with either 8-ft. x 10-ft. walls or 10-ft. x 12-ft. walls, uses the world's first DLP-based active stereo projector (the Mirage(tm) series from Christie Digital). Earlier model CAVEs are either 8-ft. x 8-ft. or 10-ft. x 10-ft. and are based on Marquee(tm) 8500 CRT projectors from Christie Digital, which provides just 225 ANSI lumen brightness.
Ad Emmen [News on Advanced IT] [Calendar] [Analysis] [IT in Medicine] |
 |