Showing posts with label immersive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label immersive. Show all posts

2009-04-26

The AlloSphere A 3D Immersive Theater and Research Facility

Clipped from: The AlloSphere at the California NanoSystems Institute, UC Santa Barbara

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The AlloSphere is a unique, one-of-a-kind scientific instrument that is a culmination of 24 years of Professor JoAnn Kuchera-Morin's creativity and research efforts in media systems and studio design. She approached the design of the AlloSphere in much the same way that she composes a piece of music.
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The AlloSphere Research Facility is differentiated from conventional virtual reality environments by its seamless surround-view capabilities and its focus on multiple sensory modalities and interaction. Building the AlloSphere was not an off-the-shelf enterprise. Designing a large-scale multimedia environment to deliver rich, coherent, interactive, high-resolution 3D video and audio streams from voluminous amounts of scientific data, all in real-time, was a non-trivial computational and systems engineering task that involved a significant number of faculty from diverse disciplines. Creating subsequent next generations of the instrument will again require genuine creativity to solve significant research and design challenges.

Clipped from: Demo: Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere | Video on TED.com


Talks JoAnn Kuchera-Morin: Tour the AlloSphere, a stunning new way to see scientific data

JoAnn Kuchera-Morin demos the AlloSphere, a new way to see, hear and interpret scientific data. Dive into the brain, feel electron spin, hear the music of the elements ... and detect previously unseen patterns that could lead to new discoveries.

Clipped from: YouTube - JoAnn Kuchera-Morin: Tour the AlloSphere, a stunning new way to see scientific data


Clipped from: The Santa Barbara Independent Enter the Allosphere

Enter the Allosphere



TAKE A LITTLE TRIP: A researcher begins a flight into the Allosphere, a $10-million magical mystery machine at UCSB. Colorful and scientific, the machine gives glimpses into brain activity and atomic relationships, with much more promised for the future.




To see the ’Sphere’s 3-d imagery, users must don a pair of glasses (center) that cost upward of $400 per pair.


UP IN THE AIR: JoAnn Kuchera-Morin and her MAT students stand proudly inside their creation, an expansive mechanical beast whose true future is unknown. Will it further scientific discoveries? Will it become groundbreaking computer theater? Will Hollywood come knocking? Or will it just be some trippy way to spend an afternoon? No one knows, and Kuchera-Morin seems to like it that way.

Clipped from: YouTube - Allosphere - Professor JoeAnn - Part 1 of 2 - University of CA Santa Barbara 21Jan08 Kodak Z1012 IS

Allosphere - Professor JoeAnn - Part 1 of 2

Professor JoeAnn, creator of the Allosphere, tells about her world-altering, three story high machine. It's a laser show in 3D effect.


Clipped from: YouTube - Allosphere Professor JoeAnn Part 2 of 2 University of CA Santa Barbara 21Jan08 Kodak Z1012 IS

Allosphere Professor JoeAnn Part 2 of 2





Sources:
  1. The AlloSphere at the California NanoSystems Institute, UC Santa Barbara
  2. Demo: Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere | Video on TED.com
  3. YouTube - JoAnn Kuchera-Morin: Tour the AlloSphere, a stunning new way to see scientific data
  4. The Santa Barbara Independent Enter the Allosphere
  5. YouTube - Allosphere - Professor JoeAnn - Part 1 of 2 - University of CA Santa Barbara 21Jan08 Kodak Z1012 IS
  6. YouTube - Allosphere Professor JoeAnn Part 2 of 2 University of CA Santa Barbara 21Jan08 Kodak Z1012 IS

Related:
  1. AlloSphere three story virtual environment not available for birthday parties, Bat Mitzvahs


2009-04-18

EON's ICUBE

Clipped from: eon icube offers incredibly immersive 3d vr experience on [technabob]

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eon icube offers incredibly immersive 3d vr experience

This VR technology provides for a completely immersive 3-dimensional experience by surrounding users in a cube of digital imagery, combined with stereoscopic glasses and motion-tracking hardware to provide for a dizzying ride through virtual environments.



EON Reality’s ICube system uses an array of high-definition video projectors to bounce real-time CGI images into a cubic room covered with white screen surfaces. Each visitor dons a special pair of lightweight 3D glasses which can be outfitted with IR markers to detect head movements.

Clipped from: YouTube - EON's I CUBE Demo

EON's I CUBE Demo






Clipped from: EON Reality, Inc. - The world's leading interactive 3D visual content management and Virtual Reality software provider

EON Reality - Experience More

By integrating EON software and applications with various display systems, EON provides state-of-the-art products and solutions for immersive and stereoscopic viewing, from portable Tablet PCs and Glass free Stereo display systems to curved-screen and Immersive Rooms consisting of multi-channel projection walls. The EON software tools are seamlessly integrated with a wide range of display systems providing customers with a unique flexibility to publish content.

Clipped from: EON Reality, Inc. - The world's leading interactive 3D visual content management and Virtual Reality software provider

EON ICUBE


The EON ICUBE™, is a revolutionary PC based multi-sided immersive environment in which participants are completely surrounded by virtual imagery and 3D sound. The EON ICUBE represents a significant innovative milestone in high-end visualization systems development. Typically, high-end immersive systems have until today been complex, difficult to use and expensive to maintain. Unlike the older generation CAVE®, the EON ICUBE is easy to use even for non programmers, provides an unsurpassed speed of immersive content creation and deployment, utilizes a new light enhancing rigid wall material, and has built-in collaborative capabilities.

Clipped from: YouTube - Consumer Experience

Consumer Experience

The EON ICUBE consists of 3, 4 or 6 walls according to the users requirements, and that can be setup in any configuration. Thanks to the rear-projection of the images and the flawless image continuity in the corners, the illusion of a complete sense of presence in the virtual environment is created.




Clipped from: YouTube - Product ICube

Product ICube

EON ICUBE has the ability to rapidly deploy 3D interactive virtual simulations using a series of built-in classes of objects, drivers and a large library of 3D models, textures, and easy to use built-in functionalities.




Sources:
  1. eon icube offers incredibly immersive 3d vr experience on [technabob]
  2. YouTube - EON's I CUBE Demo
  3. EON Reality, Inc. - The world's leading interactive 3D visual content management and Virtual Reality software provider
  4. EON Reality, Inc. - The world's leading interactive 3D visual content management and Virtual Reality software provider - eon icube
  5. YouTube - Consumer Experience
  6. YouTube - Product ICube

Related:
  1. iCube - Amazing 3D Immersion Technology
  2. EON ICUBE