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The CAVE

The "Cave" is our 8' cube custom-built by TAN. The floor and three walls are projected upon to provide a virtual environment. CrystalEyes LCD-shutter glasses provide stereo depth-perception, and a variety of Intersense and Polhemus tracking devices allow software to track the position of a user's hand, head, wand, etc. The Cave also has a multi-speaker sound system that provides positional audio.

(CAVE is an acronym for "CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment" which is now trademarked by FakeSpace Systems, Inc.)

Some external links about "Caves":

• Ours is a 'VR-Cube' built by TAN
• EVL's description of a Cave system
• Brown Graphics Research page on Cave projects.

We use three systems to drive the Cave displays:

1. A 4-pipe 8-processor SGI Onyx-2 system.
2. A four node nVIDIA linux cluster.
3. A 48-node linux cluster. The parallel rendering project is in collaboration with IBM and we are using SGE-3s to composit the pixels.