

Virtual Reality Lab
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Location
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CS 2209
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Mission
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Development of virtual reality systems for
various design and testing applications such
as: Mechanical CAD flythroughs, architectural
walkthroughs, biomolecular drug design.
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Hardware
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X86 PC, SGI/MIPS, SUN Microsystems Sparc, ApplePowerPC
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Operating system
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SGI-OS, Solaris, MS Windows, MacOS, Mac-OSX
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Software
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Latex, Emacs, C, C++, GNU C, GNU C++, Java,
Pine, CDE, MS Visual Studio
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Details
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Typically each graduate student can expect to
have access to a (more or less) personal
system and access to other interesting
hardware such as: Immersive Workbench Provided
by Fakespace, Inc., Haptic Feedback Provided
by SensAbel Technologies, Inc.,
Three-dimensional Audio Provided by Crystal
River Engineering, Head Mounted Displays
(Virtual I/O "i-glasses!", Virtual
Research "VR4" Head Mounted
Display), 6-D Spaceball, VPL Data Glove,
Flying Mouse, Isotracks and a Wacom Digitizing
tablet.
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Funding
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NSF, ONR, Mitsubishi
Electric Research Laboratory (MERL), INTEL, APPLE.
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Coordinator
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Dr. Arie Kaufman
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Lab web page
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http://www.cvc.sunysb.edu/vrlab.html
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