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Labs and Research Groups

• Graphics and User Interfaces Lab, CS Department, Columbia University

• Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Miralab

  Thalmann & co.

• Computer Graphics at University of Utah

• Immersive Environment Research at the University of Utah

• Santa Cruz Laboratory for Visualization and Graphics

  Small group that does interesting 'new' ways of visualizing data such as uncertainty distributions, molecules, etc.

• Caltech Computer Graphics Center

  Mainly a visual simulation group, but has some interesting work on the responsive workbench.

• Institute for Computer Graphics

  The original institute once set up by Foley, now mainly run by J. Kahn. Mainly interesting for the medical applications they are working on.

• LIG Computer Graphics Lab, EPFL institute

  The virtual humanoid masters. They do some nice things with hooking up people to virtual environments too.

• University College London

  Dept. of Comp. Sci. Virtual Environments and Graphics Group.
  Quite a meager site. The content that might be of interest is locked behind a password for some reason.

• Brown University

  Page about a Gaphics and Visualization Center where they do things in the direction of collaboration, interaction, etc.
  The center is a joint thing between Caltech, Cornell, UNC, Utah and themselves.
  They talk about 'laboratories without walls' and 'high-bandwidth dedicated networks'. Very good!

• Fraunhofer Center for Research in Computer Graphics

  (located near Brown University)
  Works on Global work environments, Global visualization services and security, new media, ... For example, Virtual Collaborative Environment (VCE) : multiple, physically-separated users share a distributed multimedia virtual environment for the purpose of sharing information or accomplishing a common objective. Applications : e-bussiness, emergency.

• Advanced Displays and Spatial Perceptions Laboratory

  Topics : Performance in Haptic VE, Fatigue, Latency, Display

• Virtual Environment Technology Laboratory

  Joint project between University of Houston and NASA/Johnson Space Center.
  Small place for seemingly all kinds of virtual environment research.
  In 1995 they did a shared VE across the Atlantic Ocean.

• Virtual Environments Laboratory

  at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.
  VR and car simulation mainly.
  They have a a laboratory in which they do measuring experiments on simulations. So they measure the virtual velocity of f.i. a car, by using arbitrary measuring tools.

• Human Interface Technology Laboratory

  Research and development lab at the University of Washington focusing on human computer interfaces and virtual interface technology.
  At lot of aspects are studied : hardware, education, interface, VR effects, Collaboration, medical app., design.

Conferences

• VR'2001

  March 13-17, 2001, Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama/Tokyo, JAPAN
  Deadline : September 1, 2000
  

• CHI 2001 (Computer-Human Interaction)

  The CHI 2001 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems will take place in Seattle, Washington, March 31-April 5, 2001. The annual CHI conference is the leading international forum for the exchange of ideas and information about human-computer interaction (HCI).
  Deadline : 8 September 2000

• CVE : The Third International Conference on Collaborative Virtual Environments

  CVE 2000 is an international conference dedicated to the design, development and use of collaborative virtual environments (CVEs). It is the third conference in this bi-annual series, and attracts delegates from a wide number of fields. A CVE is a computer-based, distributed, virtual space or set of places. In such places, people can meet and interact with others, with agents or with virtual objects. CVEs might vary in their representational richness from 3D graphical spaces, 2.5D and 2D environments, to text based environments.

• IPT'2000

  The Fourth International Immersive Projection Technology Workshop

• Siggraph 2000

  ....

Journals

• Computer Graphics World

  A magazine containing contemporary articles on graphics being used in less serious applications. Mainly interesting to get a touch for what is state of the art.

• Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environment

  "journal for serious investigators of teleoperators and virtual environments"

Topics

• Steering
  • Systems

    SCIrun (Utah)

    Scientific programming environment for interactive construction, debugging, and steering of large-scale, scientific computations.
    Uses dataflow model

    VisAD, Vis5D, Cave5D (Wisconsin)

    CUMULVS (ORNL)

    Collaborative User Migration, User Library for Visualization and Steering

    Forms/3 (Oregon State)

    CSE (CWI)

  
  
  • Applications

    Cosmic worm (Chicago)

    Steering a high performance computing application from a virtual environment. Early work from Cruz-Neira team. Connect a simulation of cosmic phenomena (gravitational waves, Theory of General relativity) to a Cave, through high speed network : from a CM-5 to Cave through Ethernet to FDDI to HIPI. Use an optimized message-passing library (DTM). Computation in a pipeline manner : data set comming from the CM-5, plus "Marching-Cube" on the Onyx, plus visualization. Steering : "menu and slider"-based, start, stop, resume and modification of parameters. Visualization with/without sub-sampling, zoom.

    Stalk: An Interactive System for Virtual Molecular Docking

    David Levine, Michael Facello, Philip Hallstrom, Gregory Reeder, Brian Walenz, and Fred Stevens.
    Argonne National Laboratory. Several recent technologies--genetic algorithms, parallel and distributed computing, virtual reality, and high-speed networking--underlie a new approach to the computational study of how biomolecules interact or "dock" together. With the Stalk system, a user in a virtual reality environment can interact with a genetic algorithm running on a parallel computer to help in the search for likely geometric configurations.
    Images at Argonne National Laboratory

    Real-Time Analysis, Visualization, and Steering of Microtomography Experiments at Photon Sources

    Gregor von Laszewski, Mei-Hui Su, Joseph A. Insley, Ian Foster, John Bresnahan, Carl Kesselman, Marcus Thiebaux, Mark L. Rivers, Steve Wang, Brian Tieman, Ian McNulty. PDF
    Globus-based work. Architecture with high-speed network and supercomputers that enables interactive analysis of synchrotron light source data. Reconstruction in a pipeline manner : data from the synchrotron, pre-processing, parallel reconstruction, multiple visualizations (Caves, Immersadeks, or java-based interface with video). Use the CIF (Collaborative Infrastructure Framework) to share the state of the interface. The system allows the scientist to select the parameters set quicker (trial-and-error loop), important because it's expensive or time limited.

    Virtual Surgery

    The NASA Ames Center for Bioinformatics is dedicated to the development and application of advanced visualization, computation and simulation technologies. Research on biomedical/clinical applications, scientific imaging, 3D cell structure analysis and astrobiology.
    Main work: 3-D Reconstruction (data from microscopic serial sections to CT scans) , Scientific Visualization (divese applications from vetibular studies to astrobiology research), Virtual Collaborative Environment Technologies (multicast collaborative interactions for scientific, educational, professional training, and medical applications) Neurotechnology (from biological neuronal circuits and systems to chips, processors and computer architectures).
    VR application : CyberScalpel, Interactive tools for use in virtual surgery
    Papers in "Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference Proceedings" Amsterdam 1998 and 1999.

    Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics

    Theoretical Biophysics Group, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    VMD : VMD is a molecular visualization program for displaying and animating large biomolecular systems using 3-D graphics.
    NAMD : NAMD is a parallel, object-oriented molecular dynamics code designed for high-performance simulation of large biomolecular systems. NAMD is distributed free of charge and includes source code.
    BioCoRE : is a tool-oriented collaboratory for structural biology.
    SuperComputing 99 : Conference demo

    Steering with scripting languages

    Lightweight Computational Steering of Very Large Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations
    

    
    
    
• Collaboration

  Disciple (Rutgers)

  Distributed System for Collaborative Information Processing and Learning

  Distributed Laboratories (George Tech)

  CCF (Emory)

  Collaborative Computing Frameworks for Natural Sciences Research

  STAR TAP

  STAR TAP -- Science, Technology, And Research Transit Access Point -- is a persistent infrastructure, funded by the NSF Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research division, which is part of the Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE) directorate, to facilitate the long-term interconnection and interoperability of advanced international networking in support of applications, performance measuring, and technology evaluations. The STAR TAP anchors the international vBNS connections program.
  STAR TAP connects with the Ameritech Network Access Point (NAP) in Chicago, as does the vBNS and other high-speed research networks. It enables traffic to flow to international collaborators from over 100 U.S. leading-edge research universities and supercomputer centers that are now, or will be, attached to the vBNS or other high-performance U.S. research networks.

  iGRID'2000 Demos

  A lot of new networked-demos at iGRID'2000

  
  
  
• Virtual Reality
  • Systems and and Toolkits

    CAVERNSoft (EVL)

    CAVERNsoft is a C++ hybrid-networking/database library optimized for the rapid construction of collaborative Virtual Reality applications.
    Used by several the main VR projects around the world. Trans-continental demos at SuperComputing conferences.

    DIVE

    The Distributed Interactive Virtual Environment (DIVE) is an internet-based multi-user VR system where participants navigate in 3D space and see, meet and interact with other users and applications.

    MR Toolkit

    MR (Minimal Reality) Toolkit is a set of software tools for the production of virtual reality systems and other forms of three-dimensional user interfaces. It consists of a set of subroutine libraries, device drivers, support programs and a language for describing geometry and behavior. MR provides a device independent and portable platform for the development of VR applications.

     

    Bamboo

    npsnet.nps.navy.mil type of project.See VRAIS'98 paper.

    Shared data objects

    www.alphaworks.ibm.com

    Java shared data toolkit

    java.sun.com

    Avocado

    www.advanced.org

  
  
  • Interaction

    See :

    Human Interface Technology Laboratory

  • Latency problems

    Human-Computer Interaction Issues Across Local and Global Networks

    Comprehensive presentation on what the problems are in man-machine interaction across networks with latency. Also, tutorial at siggraph'99.

    Improved Temporal Response in Virtual Environments through System Hardware and Software Reorganization

    NASA research project to the reduction of latency in a VE by reorganizing hardware and software. Small but sensible.

    Effects of Network Characteristics on Human Performance in a Collaborative Virtual Environment

    VR'99.
    Results : role of task difficulty and network condition in cooperative work performance. High latency reduces performance, but mostly the variability (jitter) removes the use of prediction. Lack of hand-eye coordination. How to increase users's confidence in their coordination.

  • Applications

  • Documentation

    Virtual reality

    History, devices, tracking, applications, ...

    The CAVE Virtual Reality System

    General and technicalinformations on CAVE

    Programming

    CAVE Programming informations, mainly the Cave library.

  
  
  
• Distributed Measurement
  
  
  
• Parallel Computing (network, shared-memory, threads, ...)

  COTERIE

  It's a testbed for fast prototyping of distributed virtual environment systems. It is designed to support the creation of VE with multiple simultaneous users interacting with many heterogeneous displays and input devices. It's designed around a multi-threaded, modular, object-oriented programming model and supports fully transparent distributed communications via both client-server and replicated distributed objects (a la ORCA). Modula-3 implementation language.

  Globus

  The Globus project is developing basic software infrastructure for computations that integrate geographically distributed computational and information resources. It concerns resource management, security, information infrastructure, comminication, fault tolerance, remote data access.
  Globus is a joint project of Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute, and led by Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman.

  
  
  
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