Continuum

Continuum is an NSF Major Research Instrumentation project to develop a cyberinfrastructure instrument that unifies high-resolution, computer-enhanced group collaboration workspaces with arrays of ambient sensors, giving the room itself the ability to anticipate users’ needs so that local and remote collaborators can focus their time on discovery rather than on the technology. As a computer-enhanced war room, Continuum connects distributed teams with their data whether stored in the cloud or streamed over high-speed networks, supports persistent digital artifacts, displays ultra-high-resolution 2D and 3D stereoscopic media side by side, and offers ubiquitous, intuitive interaction. It is the culmination of over 20 years of UIC instrument development, from the original CAVE in 1992 through the LambdaVision wall in 2004 and CAVE2 in 2012. Development focuses on attentive display walls that monitor and respond to the people in the room, thin-border 4K passive-stereo OLED displays as an alternative for building display walls, and cloud computing to prototype future Continuum spaces. Twelve funded research projects and ten UIC classes were poised to use the instrument.

Original news post: MRI - Development of Continuum: A Virtualized Attentive Environment for Amplified Collaboration