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==Project Overview==
 
==Project Overview==
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These CalVR display modes allow two users to simultaneously use the StarCAVE or Nexcave with dual head tracking, while minimizing parallax in a balanced manner for both users.
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Recent application for the GreenLight project, allowing users to visit the BlackBox virtually while observing live data from the physical BlackBox, such as power consumption and temperature readings. This allows non-obtrusive observation of the data, which could otherwise be affected if one were to enter the actual BlackBox. Additionally, a user can look at historical data of the components, with an effective "4D" display in which a range of data (spanning many days) is shown all at once via color gradients. The 8 racks within the Sun Data Center (the BlackBox) are populated with the components/servers/computers that are actually there via querying an up-to-date database of the hardware specs, along with the up-to-date energy statistics.
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There are two modes under which the display will operate: single-user mode and multi-user mode. Under single-user mode, the display is perfect for the primary user and ignores any other head trackers in the CAVE. Under multi-user mode, each screen is partitioned into multiple zones, each of which is visualized by an independent camera. Each camera is set via an interpolation between the two users that is weighted based on how directly each user is facing the respective zone. When both users face directly at the same zone, that zone's camera location is set to balance the view-error between the users evenly, resulting in an equal amount of minimal immersion loss for each users. When both users face opposite sides of the cave, the zones cameras will be positioned purely based on the user's tracking that is facing that zone, resulting in each user seeing the zones before them in optimal quality (as the other user is ignored). When one user is looking directly at a zone and the second user is seeing the zone only peripherally, the camera is positioned to display the zone better for the user facing directly at the zone. The interpolation between the user locations, based on the users' orientations, is continuous and determined independently for each zone, resulting in a more continuous screen image as the zone quantity increases.
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==Status==
 
==Status==

Revision as of 10:54, 26 July 2011

Contents

Project Overview

Recent application for the GreenLight project, allowing users to visit the BlackBox virtually while observing live data from the physical BlackBox, such as power consumption and temperature readings. This allows non-obtrusive observation of the data, which could otherwise be affected if one were to enter the actual BlackBox. Additionally, a user can look at historical data of the components, with an effective "4D" display in which a range of data (spanning many days) is shown all at once via color gradients. The 8 racks within the Sun Data Center (the BlackBox) are populated with the components/servers/computers that are actually there via querying an up-to-date database of the hardware specs, along with the up-to-date energy statistics.

Status

  • Load in BlackBox
  • Load in racks/doors/waterpipes/electrical within box (separate entities)
  • Racks & doors interaction/animation
  • Populate the racks with hardware components based on files
  • (High-level) Config file mapping for components to textures -- No more need to make individual server models.
  • Update hardware data from remote site (message sending instead of file reading, no NFS delay)
  • Transparency mode for non-component entities
  • Read in power consumption data from remote site and display it via color gradients, relative to expected value for the component
  • Selection interface to target specific components in the racks

To-Do

  • Heuristics for expected min/max wattage values per component
  • Read in power consumption data over a range of time in the past and display (animate through) it

Future Work

  • Auto-pilot version of plugin (for demos, especially when a wand isn't available)
  • Run through OssimPlanet
  • Temperature zones (pull data and display)
  • Temperature zones over a range of time from the past, animate through

Participants

Software Developers:

Project Advisors:

Development Assistance:

  • Philip Weber
  • Andrew Prudhomme

Initial Concept Base:

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