CALVIN

Collaborative Architectural Layout Via Immersive Navigation

Jason Leigh, Andrew E. Johnson, Christina Vasilakis, Thomas A. DeFanti

One of the current long term goals at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) is to create a persistent virtual environment enabling multiple transcontinentally-situated participants to apply collaborative Virtual Reality (VR) over high-speed and high-bandwidth networks connected to heterogeneous supercomputing resources and large data stores. Many of the applications in the GII Testbed at Supercomputing '95 focused on connecting supercomputing resources to VR devices to visualize data from specific scientific problem domains. Our focus, however, was on researching the techniques required to support general collaborative work in persistent virtual environments. These techniques include providing: representations for virtual co-presence; video and audio teleconferencing; virtual VR interfaces; and database technology for sustaining persistence in virtual worlds.

Multi-perspective Collaborative Design in Persistent Networked Virtual Environments, VRAIS'96[postscript][html]
CALVIN: an Immersimedia Design Environment Utilizing Heterogeneous Perspectives. Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems'96[postscript] [html]
Supporting Transcontinental Collaborative Work in Persistent Virtual Environments. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 1996.[postscript][html]
VRAIS Slides.
CALVIN at Supercomputing'95
Future of CALVIN- N.I.C.E.
CASA the earlier generation of CALVIN.