The University of Reading has a strong history of developing and researching virtual reality technology. We are collaborating with several groups across campus to use VR technology to assist team mediated interaction, assist physiotherapy, visualize scientific data sets and develop distributed collaborative environments.
ACET operates and uses the ReaCTor CAVE-like system in the PEDAL Lab, powered by the ACET SGI Prism machine, as an Immersive Virtual Environment. This facilitates a high feeling of presence which is obtained in this environment by allowing users to actually walk within the environment, still seeing their own body and the rest of the group. The primary research aim is to link the centre using this environment and CVE software such as VieGen to heterogeneous systems around the world allowing multiple, geographically distinct, groups of users to cohabit in the same virtual space. We are applying our collaborative VE in business applications in collaboration with Intel Corporation, on our EC E-learning projects, in computational steering in collaboration with ORNL, Market Research with Procter & Gamble, Architectural Modelling with JKU Linz, Medical visualization, and Scientific Visualization in collaboration with Prof. Chris Johnson University of Utah.
ACET has recently aquired a 3D portable visualization system located in Philip Lyle building where we run the above mentioned applications and investigate the efficincy of VieGen in this heterogeneous setting.
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