Project Number
- 166
Title
- Where No One Has Gone Before
Description
- Collaborative immersive environment for networked virtual training scenarios.
Contact
- Michael R. Macedonia
Affiliation
- Fraunhofer Center for Research in Computer Graphics
Address
- 167 Angell Street
- Providence, Rhode Island 02906
- +1.401.453.6363
- +1.401.453.0444 fax
- Providence, Rhode Island 02906
- mmacedon@condor.crcg.edu
WWW
Year
- 1996
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 96 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "Immersive real-time simulations (virtual environments) are now common in entertainment, military, marketing, and industrial applications. This project illustrates how virtual environments are used for collaborative, international training of astronauts."
- The scenario is supported by common application protocols for distributed virtual environments and ISDN and ATM technologies for intercontinental communications network links.
- "This project demonstrates that virtual environments can take you to work in outer space on a Hubble training mission or into the inner workings of an advanced diesel engine, and allows you to share those experiences in the same room or across the glob via high-speed networks."
Sight
- SGI Onyx Reality Engine 2, SGI Indigo, SGI Indy, stereo projection screen, Fore ATM switch and router, VR4 Head Mounted Display
Sound
- amplified audio
Touch
- VR4 head mounted display
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 202 - collaboration
Secondary
- 107 - interoperability (net,std,protcl)
Remarks
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