CaveSL: A Large Format Scalable Multi-Display System for Social and Scientific Visualization in Second Life

Abstract

As virtual worlds have become more popular for education and socialization, many researchers have begun to utilize virtual worlds like Second Life as a novel method for viewing scientific data [Bor08]. However, the typical means of accessing SL is through a single computer screen, which lessens the immersion that is inherent in such a rich 3D world. Because of this, the SL virtual world is a good candidate for adaptation to large scale immersive displays such as a CAVE and other multi projector systems. CaveSL is a freely available modified SL Viewer we developed that allows researchers to utilize large format multi-display systems for social and scientific visualization.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2011
Accession Number
AD1170832

Entities

People

  • Eric Chance
  • Kip Haynes

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Computer Science
  • Boundaries
  • Chromium
  • Computers
  • Crossings
  • Data Visualization
  • Display Systems
  • Education
  • Electronic Mail
  • Environment
  • Graphics
  • Immersive Visualization
  • Orientation (Direction)
  • Rotation
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Trajectories
  • Translations
  • Virtual Reality
  • Visualizations

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Economics
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).