ImmersaDesk4™
Andrew Johnson, Cristian J. Luciano, Greg Dawe, Jason Leigh, Thomas A. DeFanti April 15, 2005 - May 1, 2007 A Passive Stereo Virtual Reality System Using Circularly Polarized High Resolution LCD Panels The ImmersaDesk4™ (IDesk4™) is built from 2… Read more |
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ImmersiveTouch™
Cristian J. Luciano, Greg Dawe, Pat Banerjee, Lucian Florea August 1, 2004 - Ongoing ImmersiveTouch™ is the next generation of augmented virtual reality technology. ImmersiveTouch™ is the first system that integrates a… Read more |
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C-Wall (Configurable Wall)
Alan Verlo, Daniel J. Sandin, Greg Dawe, Jason Leigh, Thomas A. DeFanti January 1, 2002 - January 1, 2005 The C-Wall is a high-quality, tracked, circularly polarized passive stereo wall, which could also be adapted to active stereo using Mirage DLP… Read more |
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GeoWall 2
Andrew Johnson, Greg Dawe, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Shalini Venkataraman, Thomas A. DeFanti January 1, 2002 - September 30, 2007 The first generation of the GeoWall was targeted at providing affordable 3D stereoscopic visualization of small- to modest-sized Geoscience datasets… Read more |
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GeoWall
Andrew Johnson, Daniel J. Sandin, Eric He, Greg Dawe, Jason Leigh, Jinghua Ge, Jonas Talandis, Luc Renambot, Shalini Venkataraman, Thomas A. DeFanti March 1, 2001 - August 1, 2005 The GeoWall, based on AGAVE technology, is low-cost, non-tracked, passive-stereo system that allows distributed audiences to view and interact with… Read more |
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AGAVE (Access Grid Autostereo Virtual Environment)
Daniel J. Sandin, Eric He, Greg Dawe, Jason Leigh, Jinghua Ge, Jonas Talandis, Shalini Venkataraman, Thomas A. DeFanti, Todd Margolis September 1, 2000 - August 31, 2005 AGAVE (pronounced agavay) is a panel-based, head-tracked, barrier-strip auto-stereographic display, where the viewer does not wear stereo glasses… Read more |
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PARIS™ : Personal Augmented Reality Immersive System
Andrew Johnson, Dana M. Plepys, Daniel J. Sandin, Dave Pape, Greg Dawe, Jason Leigh, Maggie Rawlings, Michael Bogucki, Samroeng Thongrong, Thomas A. DeFanti, Xun Luo, Zhongwei Qui September 1, 1998 - October 31, 2002 Twenty years ago, Ken Knowlton created a see-through display for Bell Labs using a half-silvered mirror mounted at an angle in front of a telephone… Read more |
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AccessBot
Alan Cruz, Alan Verlo, Dana M. Plepys, Daniel J. Sandin, Greg Dawe, Jason Leigh, Javier Girado, Jonas Talandis, Maggie Rawlings, Muhammad Ali Khan, Ray Fang, Tom DeFanti May 1, 1998 - May 1, 2000 The goal of the AccessBot project is to provide a new form of access for the disabled that integrates teleconferencing with life-sized display… Read more |
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ImmersaDesk3™
Andrew Johnson, Daniel J. Sandin, Dave Pape, Gary Lindahl, Greg Dawe, Jason Leigh, Michael Bogucki, Thomas A. DeFanti May 1, 1998 - July 1, 1998 The ImmersaDesk3™ is an experiment in desktop VR using a flat panel display. Our goal was to make a prototype with tracking and stereo for… Read more |
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The Ganymede Accessbot: An Enabling Technology for Teleconferencing
Alan Cruz, Daniel J. Sandin, Greg Dawe, Jason Leigh, Javier Girado, Jonas Talandis, Maggie Rawlings, Paul Rossman, Thomas A. DeFanti May 1, 1998 - May 15, 2001 The problem of providing accessibility for the handicapped goes far beyond merely providing ramps and elevators in buildings, cars, airplanes, and… Read more |
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CAVE™ Line-Of-Sight Calibration Procedure
Daniel J. Sandin, Dave Adamczyk, Eric He, Greg Dawe, Marek Czernuszenko, Morteza Ghazisaedy, Robert V. Kenyon, Thomas A. DeFanti March 1, 1998 - January 1, 2000 This is a continuation of the research begun by Marek Czernuszenko with some refinements to the procedure as described in the associated documents. Read more |
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Instrumentation Development for Human-Centered Tele-Immersion
Daniel J. Sandin, Greg Dawe, Thomas A. DeFanti January 9, 1998 - October 31, 2002 The UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) has six years of experience building first and second-generation virtual reality devices (the CAVE… Read more |
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ImmersaDesk2™
Daniel J. Sandin, Greg Dawe, Thomas A. DeFanti January 1, 1996 - May 1, 1997 The development of the ImmersaDesk2™ system in 1996 focused upon a number of design issues not addressed by the initial ImmersaDesk™… Read more |
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Tracker Calibration - Line of Sight Method
Daniel J. Sandin, Dave Adamczyk, Greg Dawe, Marek Czernuszenko, Morteza Ghazisaedy, Robert V. Kenyon, Thomas A. DeFanti March 1, 1995 - February 1, 1998 Widely used in VR electro-magnetic trackers are sensitive to electrically or magneticly conductive objects in the environment. Static errors as high… Read more |
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ImmersaDesk™
Daniel J. Sandin, Greg Dawe, Thomas A. DeFanti January 1, 1994 - December 1, 1994 The ImmersaDesk™ was developed in 1994 at EVL. It is a drafting table format VR display. It features a 67x50-inch rear-projected screen at a… Read more |
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PINCH Glove as VR Input Device
Dave Pape, Greg Dawe, Hiroshi Hayakawa, Jim Costigan, Matthew Szymanski January 1, 1993 - May 15, 1993 Experiments are ongoing using PINCH™ gloves as an interactive input device to the CAVE, ImmersaDesk, PARIS and other virtual reality systems… Read more |
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The CAVE™ Virtual Reality Theater
Carolina Cruz-Neira, Daniel J. Sandin, Dave Pape, Greg Dawe, Thomas A. DeFanti January 1, 1992 - January 1, 2002 CAVE™ The CAVE™ is a multi-person, room-sized, high-resolution 3D video and audio environment invented at EVL in 1991. Graphics are… Read more |
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Wand / Wanda™ VR Input Devices
Daniel J. Sandin, Drew Browning, Glen Murray, Greg Dawe, Maggie Rawlings January 1, 1992 - January 1, 1999 Wanda™ is commerically available from Murray Consulting, VRCO, or Ascension Technology Corporation. The wand is the major input device used to… Read more |
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The Spacepad
Daniel J. Sandin, Dave Pape, Eric He, Fu Hu Liu, Greg Dawe, Hiroshi Hayakawa, Marek Czernuszenko, Michael Bogucki, Morteza Ghazisaedy, Ray Fang September 1, 1991 - Unknown The Spacepad magnetic tracking system used with the ImmersaDesk is a plug-in PC ISA bus system and has the following components: Antenna, which… Read more |
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The pcBIRD
Daniel J. Sandin, Dave Pape, Eric He, Fu Hu Liu, Greg Dawe, Hiroshi Hayakawa, Marek Czernuszenko, Michael Bogucki, Ray Fang September 1, 1991 - December 1, 1991 The pcBIRD is a 6 DOF pc-based tracking device that measures the position and orientation of a small body-mounted receiver when located within +/- 4… Read more |
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Flock of Birds Tracking System
Daniel J. Sandin, Dave Pape, Eric He, Fu Hu Liu, Greg Dawe, Hiroshi Hayakawa, Marek Czernuszenko, Michael Bogucki, Morteza Ghazisaedy September 1, 1990 - August 31, 2000 The Flock of Birds (FOB) is a stand alone system and has the following components: A 1 foot cube transmitting antenna, which is mounted above the… Read more |
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Tracking Systems
Daniel J. Sandin, Dave Pape, Eric He, Fu Hu Liu, Greg Dawe, Hiroshi Hayakawa, Marek Czernuszenko, Michael Bogucki, Morteza Ghazisaedy September 1, 1990 - Unknown The Tracking System provides information about the user’s position and orientation to CAVE applications. The tracking data is gathered by… Read more |