Booths at Supercomputing'98 (iGRID/STARTAP/TransPAC, Alliance, Argonne, NLANR) as well as research centers in Singapore, Australia and Tokyo will host virtual reality portals into a number of Tele-Immersion collaboratories at Supercomputing'98 in Orlando, Florida. These collaboratories will showcase a variety of applications developed with the CAVERNsoft Tele-Immersion system (a Globus application). A virtual atrium will serve as a central teleportation point into the various collaborative environments. Once in these environments, remote participants will be able to see each other as avatars (virtual representations of themselves), speak to each other through streaming audio, and interact with the world.
From this web page you will be able to track the people who enter each of the worlds.
Collaboratories that will be shown include:
a. CAVE6D - a collaborative visualization application for environmental hydrology.
Glen H. Wheless, Cathy Lascara- Old Dominion University; Abhinav
Kapoor, Jason Leigh- EVL
b. Motorola Impact
Visualization - a collaborative visualization of the impact testing
of a Motorola cellular device
Hong-Yee Wong, Xiaoyan Liu, NUS/IHPC;
SiewEng Quah- Motorola, Singapore; Jason
Leigh- NCSA/EVL
c. The Silk Road
Cave Shrines- a collaborative tour of the Mogoa Grottoes of Dunhuang
in China- an ancient historic site.
Sarah Fraser, Bill Parod, Jim Chen, Dennis Glenn, Harlan Wallach-
Northwestern University; Samroeng Thongrong, Tom Frisch, Maggie Rawlings, Mohammed Ali Khan, Yalu Lin, Jason Leigh-
EVL
e. The CAVE Collaborative
Console- a set of tools for way-finding in Tele-Immersion. These tools
will be used within an architectural space.
Kevin Curry, Kent Swartz, with support from John Kelso, and Dr. Ronald
Kriz- Virginia Tech
f. FutureCamp'98- a number of collaborative worlds created by at a multidisciplinary, virtual reality,
day-camp by 9-11th graders, to teach them concepts about modeling in 3D, and Oceanography.
Daniel H. Robertson, John Hicks- Indiana University Purdue University
Indianapolis
g. Image-based Three Dimensional Model Reconstruction- this application
visualizes a chip manufacturing microscope laboratory at Argonne National Laboratory that was recreated using a
new algorithm for image-based reconstruction.
Marek Czernuszenko, Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University
of Illinois at Chicago
h. Heliac
Plasma Coils- this application shows the main magnetic coil set and
a magnetic "flux surface" of the H-1NF Heliac experiment which is an alternative to the tokamac style
of fusion device.
Brian Corrie, Henry Gardner, Sam Taylor, Cooperative Research Centre
for Advanced Computational Systems, Australian National University
i. LIMBO/VTK- LIMBO/VTK combines LIMBO with the Visualization Toolkit to allow application developers
to use the rich set of visualization tools built into VTK to generate sharable three-dimensional objects in LIMBO.
Paul J. Rajlich, Robert J. Stein- NCSA/EVL
All these applications will be instrumented so that bandwidth, latency and jitter of the underlying data paths
can be measured through the entire duration of the conference. These measurements will be used to characterize
data access in Tele-Immersion in order to inform our future research goals of providing networking quality of service
for tele-immersive applications over significant distances and different time zones. The broader scope of Tele-Immersion
research includes: database techniques for recording realtime collaborative sessions and for querying and accessing
large data stores of scientific and engineering data; realtime graphics techniques and human-centered tools for
synchronous and asynchronous collaboration; and networking techniques for ensuring quality of service and for striping
of data for maximal utilization of high-bandwidth links. Additional information about the field of Tele-Immersion
may be found at the WEB pages below.
Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago
Maxine Brown, Tom Frisch, Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Yalu Lin,
Abhinav Kapoor, Kyoung Park, Maggie Rawlings, Nikita Sawant, Chris Scharver, Samroeng Thongrong.
Argonne National Laboratory
Ian Foster, Steve Tuecke, Noam Freedman
Institute of High Performance Computing, National University of Singapore
Hong-Yee Wong, Xiaoyan Liu
Cooperative Research Center for Advanced
Computational Systems, Australian National University
Brian Corrie, Henry Gardner, Sam Taylor
Intelligent Modeling Laboratory,
Tokyo University
Tomoko Imai, Tomonori Aoyama, Michitaka Hirose, Tetsuro Ogi
Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
Glen Wheless, Cathy Lascara
Indiana University Virtual Reality/Virtual
Environments Labs at IU-Bloomington and Indiana University-Purdue
University Indianapolis
John Hicks, Daniel H. Robertson
Virginia Tech
Kevin Curry, Kent Swartz, Ron Kriz
Northwestern University
Sarah Fraser, Bill Parod, Jim Chen, Dennis Glenn, Harlan Wallach