An Elegy for the Departed - an Interactive Virtual Reality+Physical Computing Typographic Performance
Researchers: Quentin Bu, MDES graduate
January 5, 2023 - May 5, 2023

Written and programmed for EVL’s CAVE2 by UIC Masters of Design student Quentin Bu, “Elegy” is a highly experimental virtual… Read more

Chicago Design Through the Decades
Researchers: Daria Tsoupikova, Fabio Miranda
June 11, 2022

A collaboration of the UIC, Columbia College Chicago and the Chicago Design Archive (CDA), the “Chicago Design Through the Decades”… Read more

TRNQWRLD
Researchers: Kyra Jones
March 1, 2019 - May 4, 2019

Kyra Jones, School of Design undergraduate student created a virtual reality environment for the CAVE2 “TRNQWRLD” under the supervision… Read more

Hummingbird: Collaborative Virtual Reality for Tele-Immersive Interactive Theater
Researchers: Andrew Johnson, Arthur Nishimoto, Daria Tsoupikova, Lance Long, Sai Priya Jyothula, Jo Cattell (Goodman Theatre)
January 15, 2019 - Ongoing

Transforming Storytelling: Multiuser Virtual Reality Theater for Collaborative Tele-Immersive Interaction (aka “Hummignbird”) is a… Read more

Music Instruction in a Virtual/Augmented Environment
Researchers: Shreyas Mohan
June 1, 2016 - August 15, 2016

This project’s purpose was to investigate the ability of virtual reality to teach music. An application was developed for the CAVE2™ and… Read more

DigitalQuest: A Mixed Reality Approach to Scavenger Hunts
Researchers: Marco Cavallo
March 19, 2016 - March 23, 2016

Despite much progress and increased interest, mixed reality applications are not yet in widespread use by the general public. Our framework… Read more

Merging Worlds: A Location-based Approach to Mixed Reality
Researchers: Angus Forbes, Marco Cavallo
August 16, 2015 - May 15, 2016

This research explores a novel approach to the design of Mixed Reality (MR) applications, which combines elements from markerless and location-based… Read more

Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project
Researchers: Arthur Nishimoto, Daria Tsoupikova, Lance Long, - University of Illinois at Chicago; Roderick Coover, Mark Partridge - Temple University; Scott Rettberg - University of Bergen, Norway
August 16, 2014 - Ongoing

Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project is a 3D narrative experience made for the effective sensory environment of the EVL’s CAVE2™… Read more

Luxor
Researchers: Daniel J. Sandin, Thomas A. DeFanti, Dick Ainsworth
April 30, 2011 - April 29, 2013

As a demonstration of cultural heritage, participants can view 360-degree panoramic images of Medinet Habu, the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III… Read more

StarTrek Enterprise
Researchers: Arthur Nishimoto
January 1, 2011 - Ongoing

In an homage to “StarTrek,” EVL graduate student Arthur Nishimoto spent his spare time over the past two years creating a 3D virtual… Read more

Particle Dreams in Spherical Harmonics
Researchers: Daniel J. Sandin, Robert Kooima, Thomas A. DeFanti, Laurie Spiegel
January 1, 2011 - Ongoing

Content and application programming: Dan Sandin Content and systems programming: Robert Kooima Music and sound effects: Laurie Spiegel Driver: Tom… Read more

Sudden Loss
Researchers: JD Pirtle
December 1, 2010 - May 26, 2011

Sudden Loss is a projected software work created with Processing. At the beginning of the ideation portion of this project, I became intrigued by the… Read more

The Fall Beyond Tomorrow’s Life
Researchers: JD Pirtle
August 16, 2010 - March 15, 2011

The Fall Beyond Tomorrow’s Life is an interactive environment that unites water and sound. The primary components of the piece are a horizontal… Read more

Meridianus Divinitus
Researchers: Hubert Weldon
May 1, 2009 - November 17, 2009

Grav Weldon’s MFA thesis research Meridianus Divinitus is an exploration of the body energetic. It is a set of dynamic reinterpretations of… Read more

Instant Copies
Researchers: Andrew Oleksiuk
March 8, 2009 - September 20, 2009

Instant Copies is a virtual world immersive environment that plays with the anachronistic concept of xerographic copy machines in a virtual milieu… Read more