EVL's co-director Tom De Fanti heads Internet2's Applications Council and EVL's involvement with the next generation of the internet, which began with work on the I-WAY at Supercomputing 95, continues.
EVLers were at the UCAID meeting with the following networked Immersadesk demonstrations:
Video Avatars
in Collaborative Virtual Environments
Networked Virtual Director
The Chesapeake Bay Project
At the meeting Al Gore announced that Internet2, the new computer network will be funded with $500 million of private investment. The project is closely related to the Clinton administration's Next Generation Internet initiative. While the Internet2 project is using university and private sector funds to build a super-fast network, the next generation initiative is using government money to fund basic research about using the faster network. Both projects are intended to develop new technologies that will trickle down to the global Internet as well as private computer networks.
NICE,
a virtual reality educational environment for children.
CALVIN, a virtual design
environment.
The Virtual Temporal
Bone , a virtual reality simulation of middle and inner ear anatomy.
These applications were shown on an Immersadesk networked with EVL.