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The StarCAVE consists of four walls with three screens each. Two JVC HD2K projectors generate a stereo image for each screen, totalling 24 projectors in the StarCAVE. Every projector pair is driven by an Intel quad core Dell XPS computer running under ROCKS/CentOS, with dual Nvidia Quadro 5600 graphics cards. We use an additional XPS machine as the head node to control the rendering nodes. For head and hand tracking we use an ART system.
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The WAVE is located in the SME building. By mounting the screens in a cylindrical shape, we minimize ghosting issues with them. And by mounting them horizontally, we allow for more viewers to see images without ghosting.
  
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The WAVE consists of 35 3DTVs from LG with a 55" diagonal and narrow bezels. The displays support passive stereo with circular polarization at full HD resolution. The system displays about 35 million pixels per eye. It is powered by 19 graphics PCs with dual Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 graphics cards. We use an optical tracking system and input device from [http://www.ar-tracking.com AR Tracking].
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The C-Wall is located in room 6307 and features a single screen, stereo wall, driven by a PC with dual AMD Opteron CPUs, an Nvidia GeForce 7900 video card, 4 GB RAM, and 1.7 TB HDD space, running under Suse Linux 10.1. It is driving two JVC HD2k projectors with a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels each, projecting on a 4 by 8 foot screen using rear-projection. We use circular polarization filters and glasses to separate the stereo images. For tracking we use an electro-magnetic Ascension Flock of Birds system with head tracking and a Wanda input device. The concept of the C-Wall is described [http://www.evl.uic.edu/core.php?mod=4&type=1&indi=234 here]. The software driving our C-Wall is [http://www.hlrs.de/organization/vis/covise/ COVISE]. Writing new software applications for the C-Wall can be done by implementing a C++ module for COVISE, of which the underlying graphics API is [http://www.openscenegraph.com OpenSceneGraph].
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The [http://www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/rg/20040820_dan/ Varrier] wall, aka Lambdavision Display System, consists of 60 LCD monitors, arranged in a semi cylinder. It can generate autostereoscopic images at a resolution of about 40 million pixels per eye. The system consists of 31 dual AMD Opteron machines, each with 4GB RAM, 1.6TB disk arrays, dual gigabit ethernet NICs and NVidia Geforce 7900 video cards. Each display node drives two 20" NEC LCD monitors (1600 x 1200 pixels). The system is running on Suse Linux 10.0. We support three software environments which can drive the cluster:
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Located in Atkinson Hall, the Big Wall in the Vroom (Virtual Room) is a tiled display environment with four rows of eight displays for a total of 32 narrow-bezel NEC X551UN LCD displays with a 55" screen diagonal. Each of the displays has full HD resolution (1920x1080 pixels), adding up to 66 million pixels on the entire wall (15,360 x 4,320 pixels). We also support multi-channel audio, and use a four-camera optical tracking system from [http://www.vicon.com/ Vicon]. All displays have been attached in 2x2 patterns to mounting structures, which are either installed in movable containers (OptiPortables) or suspended from above. The displays in the Big Wall are driven by 16 rendering PCs running CentOS Linux, each with dual Nvidia Geforce 580 graphics cards. Additionally, there are three separate control PCs (head nodes), each of them set up for one of the three supported software environments: [http://vis.ucsd.edu/~cglx/ CGLX], [http://ivl.calit2.net/wiki/index.php/CalVR CalVR] and [http://www.evl.uic.edu/core.php?mod=4&type=1&indi=281 SAGE].
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* [http://www.evl.uic.edu/rlk/electro/ Electro]
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The multipurpose room at Calit2 is a 2-story, reconfigurable performance space for experiments with the audience’s relationship to the physical environment and mediated elements. The IVL runs a stereo projection setup consisting of dual Christie projectors with a resolution of 1600x1200 pixels each, driven by a dual AMD Opteron PC with a fast RAID array.
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<td valign="top">Qualcomm Institute's digital theater auditorium offers 200 seats with power and Ethernet jacks in every seat. The high end technical equipment installed in this room allows it to be used for anything ranging from presentations with Powerpoint slides, video screenings, presentations of visual and performance art, to demonstrations of the future of digital cinema: 4k video on a 18 by 32 foot screen. Among the technical highlights of the auditorium are: a 20 channel surround sound system, high definition (HD) video playback from computers or digital HD tapes, real-time virtual reality with a 3D tracking system, and a [http://www.sony.com/sxrd/ Sony SRXD-R110] 4k projector (4096x2160 pixels resolution). The control room houses the following 4k-relevant hardware:
  
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Calit2 has a 200-seat theatre with ultra-high resolution video and 20 channel surround sound. The IVL runs a Sony SRX-R110 projector for uncompressed 4K (8 megapixels) digital cinema, which is four times as many pixels than the current HD standard. The projector can be driven by a Silicon Graphics Prism visualization system, streaming at 24 frames-per-second from an SGI InfiniteStorage RM-660 disk array onto a screen 18 feet high by 32 feet wide. The Prism is connected by a 10Gbit/sec network connection to the global OptIPuter network, making the Calit2 theater the most advanced digital cinema theater currently in operation in the world. Another option for 4k video playback and recording is a set of NTT JPEG2000 hardware codecs, which can operate at 24 or 30 frames per second.
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Other equipment used in the digital theater includes a digital light mixer, a conventional projector by [http://www.christiedigital.com Christie] with a resolution of 1600x1200 pixels, and a remote control system by [http://www.crestron.com Crestron] which allows presenters to connect their laptops and control video and audio directly from the podium.
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Latest revision as of 21:09, 9 September 2021

WAVE

WAVE-320.jpg

The WAVE is located in the SME building. By mounting the screens in a cylindrical shape, we minimize ghosting issues with them. And by mounting them horizontally, we allow for more viewers to see images without ghosting.

The WAVE consists of 35 3DTVs from LG with a 55" diagonal and narrow bezels. The displays support passive stereo with circular polarization at full HD resolution. The system displays about 35 million pixels per eye. It is powered by 19 graphics PCs with dual Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 graphics cards. We use an optical tracking system and input device from AR Tracking.

The Big Wall in the Vroom

Vroom.jpg

Located in Atkinson Hall, the Big Wall in the Vroom (Virtual Room) is a tiled display environment with four rows of eight displays for a total of 32 narrow-bezel NEC X551UN LCD displays with a 55" screen diagonal. Each of the displays has full HD resolution (1920x1080 pixels), adding up to 66 million pixels on the entire wall (15,360 x 4,320 pixels). We also support multi-channel audio, and use a four-camera optical tracking system from Vicon. All displays have been attached in 2x2 patterns to mounting structures, which are either installed in movable containers (OptiPortables) or suspended from above. The displays in the Big Wall are driven by 16 rendering PCs running CentOS Linux, each with dual Nvidia Geforce 580 graphics cards. Additionally, there are three separate control PCs (head nodes), each of them set up for one of the three supported software environments: CGLX, CalVR and SAGE.

Auditorium

Telepresence-320.jpg Qualcomm Institute's digital theater auditorium offers 200 seats with power and Ethernet jacks in every seat. The high end technical equipment installed in this room allows it to be used for anything ranging from presentations with Powerpoint slides, video screenings, presentations of visual and performance art, to demonstrations of the future of digital cinema: 4k video on a 18 by 32 foot screen. Among the technical highlights of the auditorium are: a 20 channel surround sound system, high definition (HD) video playback from computers or digital HD tapes, real-time virtual reality with a 3D tracking system, and a Sony SRXD-R110 4k projector (4096x2160 pixels resolution). The control room houses the following 4k-relevant hardware:
  • An NTT hardware codec, which can play back JPEG2000 compressed 4k video with multi-channel audio at 24 or 30 frames per second.
  • A Zaxel video server with lossless compression to playback and record 4k video.

Other equipment used in the digital theater includes a digital light mixer, a conventional projector by Christie with a resolution of 1600x1200 pixels, and a remote control system by Crestron which allows presenters to connect their laptops and control video and audio directly from the podium.

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