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The Thing Growing at SIGGRAPH 99 ::- LA CA, Aug 99

At SIGGRAPH we showed the Thing Growing on a Panoram display device in the Electronic Schoolhouse's Playground as part of Charlie Kesler's VR Storytelling project. The Thing has a new look - black lines around the edges point up the transparency and make it pop out of the screen more.
Our part of the project was made possible by various loans. An Onyx 2 from SGI. Twenty pairs of stereo glasses and emitters from NuVision and a Flock of Birds Tracking system from EVL. We had been concerned that the user's shadow would fall on the screen - but the screen was raised far enough and the person stood far enough back so that the application worked with few modifications. 
We were very pleased by the way this project and several other CAVE applications looked on the Panoram - the front projection made it brighter than usual. Here on the left is Margaret Dolinsky's application Blue Window Pane, Dave Pape also showed an early version of Historiae Naturalis.