Researchers: Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh

URL: http://www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/lara/index.html

Funding: NSF

“When the explorer is ready the guide will appear.”

- Himalayan Saying

LARA (Laboratory for Analyzing and Reconstructing Artifacts) is an application for developing collaborative walkthroughs of large virtual environments. LARA was designed specifically to facilitate EVL’s development of applications related to virtual restorations and recreations of cultural and historic sites.

LARA will allow users to traverse massive landscapes whose geometric parts may be located on distant distributed servers.

LARA will also allow the creation of annotations that will allow past visitors to leave fully animated messages for new visitors. This same technology will allow world builders to create interactive tours of the environments.

Email: cavern@evl.uic.edu

Date: January 1, 2000 - August 1, 2004

Related Entries

Directory:

• Andrew Johnson
• Jason Leigh

Events:

• Andrew Johnson Promoted to Associate Professor

Papers:

• Visualization in Teleimmersive Environments
• Multi-disciplinary Experiences with CAVERNsoft Tele-Immersive Applications
• CAVERN: The CAVE® Research Network
• CAVERN: A Distributed Architecture for Supporting Scalable Persistence and Interoperaility in Collaborative Virtual Environments
• Issues in the Design of a Flexible Distributed Architecture for Supporting Persistence and Interoperablility in Collaborative Virtual Environments
• View more…

Research:

• Collaboration and Visualization over High Speed Networks
• CAVERN - The CAVE™ Research Network
• The Round Earth Project

Related Categories

• Applications
• Cultural Heritage