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Research Infrastructure: MRI: Track 2 Acquisition of Data Observation and Computation Collaboratory (DOCC)
Andrew Johnson, Dana M. Plepys, Daniel J. Sandin, Fabio Miranda, G. Elisabeta Marai, Jonas Talandis, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Michael E. Papka, Nikita Nandish Soni October 1, 2023 - September 30, 2026 The Data Observation and Computation Collaboratory (DOCC, ’dock’) is a visual data science instrument for University of Illinois Chicago… Read more |
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SENSEI: Sensor Environment Imaging (SENSEI) Instrument
Ahmad Atra, Andrew Johnson, Bartosz Kupiec, Daniel J. Sandin, Dimitar Kirilov, Harlyn Baker, Hayley Christianson, Kyra Jones, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Robert V. Kenyon, Tanya Berger-Wolf October 1, 2014 - September 30, 2019 SENSEI will be a reconfigurable, ultra-high-resolution, spherical (4π steradian), photometric, radiometric and photogrammetric real-time… Read more |
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CAVE2: Next-Generation Virtual-Reality and Visualization Hybrid Environment for Immersive Simulation and Information Analysis
Alan Verlo, Alessandro Febretti, Andrew Johnson, Dana M. Plepys, Daniel J. Sandin, Jason Leigh, JD Pirtle, Jonas Talandis, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Tom Peterka May 1, 2009 - Ongoing CAVE2™, the next-generation large-scale virtual-reality environment, is a hybrid system that combines the benefits of both scalable-resolution… Read more |
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Dynallax: Dynamic Parallax Barrier Autostereoscopic Display
Daniel J. Sandin, Javier Girado, Jinghua Ge, Robert Kooima, Tom Peterka, Jason Leigh, Andrew Johnson, Jurgen Schulze (UCSD), Thomas A. DeFanti January 1, 2006 - Ongoing Parallax barrier strip autostereoscopic virtual reality displays such as Varrier™ have been constructed by placing a barrier of lines in front… Read more |
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CineGrid™ Initiative
Daniel J. Sandin, Jason Leigh, Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti, Lauren Herr, Natalie Van Osdol (Pacific Interface), Larry Smarr (UCSD / Calit2), Richard Weinberg, Elizabeth Daley (USC / CNTV), Tomonori Aoyama, Naohisa Ohta (Keio / DMC) September 1, 2005 - Ongoing CineGrid is an initiative to provide media professionals access to global cyberinfrastructure capable of carrying ultra-high performance digital… 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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Personal Varrier™ Autostereo Display
Daniel J. Sandin, Javier Girado, Jinghua Ge, Robert Kooima, Thomas A. DeFanti, Tom Peterka August 1, 2001 - August 31, 2005 The Personal Varrier™ display consists of a 30” LCD widescreen display with 2560x1600 native resolution. A photographic film barrier… 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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The CAVEGui Project
Daniel J. Sandin, Dave Pape, Joshua Eliason January 1, 2000 - May 1, 2001 CAVEGui: is a graphical user interface tool that provides interaction with a CAVE application, sensor rotation and translation along with controller… Read more |
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ASCI Advanced Projector Consortium
Daniel J. Sandin, Thomas A. DeFanti, Argonne National Laboratory: R. Stevens, M. Hereld, San Diego Supercomputer Center: B. Pailthorpe, N. Bordes January 1, 2000 - January 1, 2002 Organized for the US Department of Energy VIEWS (Visualization and Interactive Environments for Weapons Simulation) program. The Advanced Projector… Read more |
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3D Avatars Using Depth from Stereo
Alex Hill, Dana M. Plepys, Daniel J. Sandin, Satheesh Subramanian, Vivek Rajan July 1, 1999 - September 1, 2000 The 3D model of the person is obtained using depth from stereo. The range information obtained from depth from stereo is used to segment the… Read more |
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35 Panel Cylindrical Varrier™ Autostereo Display
Daniel J. Sandin, Jason Leigh, Jinghua Ge, Javier Girado, Todd Margolis, Tom Peterka January 1, 1999 - Ongoing The Cylindrical Varrier™ display consists of 35 LCD panels tiled in a 7x5 configuration with a 6’x8’ footprint. A photographic film… Read more |
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CAVERN - The CAVE™ Research Network
Andrew Johnson, Daniel J. Sandin, Jason Leigh, Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti, Tom Moher, U. Buy, R. Grossman October 1, 1998 - September 30, 2004 CAVERN, the CAVE™ Research Network, is an alliance of industrial and research institutions equipped with CAVE™-based virtual reality… 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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CAVERNsoft
Andrew Johnson, Daniel J. Sandin, Jason Leigh, Thomas A. DeFanti September 1, 1998 - September 30, 2004 CAVERNsoft is a C++ toolkit for building collaborative networked applications or logistical networking applications. It has low and mid level… 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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Video Avatars
Alex Hill, Anupreet Kalra, Dana M. Plepys, Daniel J. Sandin, Fang Wang, Joe Insley, Johnny Lawson, Satheesh Subramanian, Vivek Rajan January 1, 1996 - December 31, 1998 Tele-immersive virtual applications utilize avatars to represent users in remote environments, primarily to aid in communication during collaborative… Read more |
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VideoAvatar Library (3D static)
Daniel J. Sandin, Joe Insley January 1, 1996 - August 1, 1997 The VideoAvatar Library is a collection of functions that works in conjunction with the CAVE Library, and can be used to add static, photo-realistic… 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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Getting Physical in Four Dimensions
Daniel J. Sandin, Joanna Mason, Louis H. Kauffman, Milana Huang, George Francis July 1, 1994 - July 15, 1994 The goal of this application is to provide a more intuitive understanding of hyperspace. It enabled users to physically interact with objects in four… 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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Quaternion Julia Sets in Virtual Reality
Daniel J. Sandin, Joe Insley, Louis H. Kauffman, Yumei Dang January 15, 1993 - December 15, 1995 A Julia Set is the map of the behavior of an equation when its output is fed back into its input (recursive). The equation mapped is z = z2 + k. In… Read more |
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CAVE™ Simulator
Carolina Cruz-Neira, Daniel J. Sandin, Dave Pape, Joshua Eliason, Thomas A. DeFanti January 1, 1993 - May 15, 2003 The CAVE™ simulator, a part of the CAVE library, is a development tool for CAVE™ applications. The simulator is used to create the… Read more |
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Blowing Snow
Daniel J. Sandin November 1, 1992 - November 1, 1993 “Blowing Snow” is a simplified simulation of wind interacting with the person who is being tracked inside the CAVE. CAVE participants… Read more |
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Mathenautics: Three-Eighths of Thurston’s Eight-Fold Way
Daniel J. Sandin, Randy Hudson (1951-2020), George Francis, Charlie Gunn, The Geometry Center November 1, 1992 - November 1, 1993 Mathematicians study the behavior of lines and curves on the surfaces of different shapes, such as a sphere and a donut-shaped torus. While these… 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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CAVE™ Library
Carolina Cruz-Neira, Daniel J. Sandin, Dave Adamczyk, Dave Pape, Hiroshi Hayakawa, Marek Czernuszenko, Morteza Ghazisaedy, Thomas A. DeFanti, Bill Nickless, Bill Sherman September 1, 1991 - September 30, 2001 The CAVE™ Library is an Application Programmers Interface (API) that provides the software environment / toolkit for developing virtual reality… Read more |
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LCD Shutter Glasses for Stereo Imagery in VR
Daniel J. Sandin, Thomas A. DeFanti September 1, 1991 - Unknown The CAVE, ImmersaDesks, I-Wall and PARIS virtual reality (VR) systems developed at EVL display active stereo images by use of StereoGraphics Liquid… 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 |
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Sayre Glove (first wired data glove)
Daniel J. Sandin, Thomas A. DeFanti, Richard Sayre January 1, 1977 In 1977 Daniel J. Sandin and Thomas DeFanti created the first wired data glove based on an idea by Richard Sayre as a project for the National… Read more |
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Sandin Image Processor (IP)
Daniel J. Sandin January 1, 1971 - January 1, 1973 Between 1971 and 1973, Dan Sandin designed and built the Sandin Image Processor (IP) a patch programmable analog computer for real-time manipulation… Read more |
