This is incredible!
I remember, five years ago when I was
still in University, a friend of
mine used to work for a Frauenhofer
Institute's cave project. It was
build with a bunch of SGIs (which
were usually malfunctioning). The cave
did cost several millions to build
and quite some staff was required to
run and maintain it. I can only guess
what a pain the authoring for
environments and interaction must
have been. It is great to see a
powerful tool like Virtools gaining
more and more attention in the high
end market. Even though the frame
rate seemed a little low. Is this due
to the movie compression or just not
optimized yet?
I'm really interested in knowing if
there are any plans to build a 'all
in one - solution' that could be
purchased? How much did it actually
cost to build this
system?
This makes me think of about the
future, where will we be in five years?
Maybe there will be a consumer cave
solution and in ten years something
like this will be just as ususal as a
PSX, GameCube or XBox.
v.
-----Original
Message-----
From: Francois Dujardin
[mailto:dujardin@virtools.com]
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 4:46
AM
To: virtools-user-group@lists.theswapmeet.com
Subject:
[Virtools] Virtools Dev 2 for immersive VR
Hi
all,
I
thought you might be interested in checking out Virtools integrated with the
SASCube (an immersive room with 4
screens):
http://www.z-a.net/imagina2002/index.en.html
The
application shows the duck demo in this cave-like environment, in stereoscopic
vision. It demonstrates things like distributed processing of a Virtools
application on a cluster of PCs, with synchronization of the displays. Usually
these kind of applications would require big hardware
like SGI machines, but here it’s running on a slightly modified version of
Virtools Dev2, with standard PCs, making it much more affordable. You can also
check out the press release about this on our
website:
http://www.virtools.com/news/press_35.asp
Besides
the integrated SASCube/Virtools solution, we can
make that kind of technology available if some of you are
interested.
François
Francois
Dujardin
Virtools
- The Behavior Company