ImmersaDesk

The ImmersaDesk is an active stereo display system. Six or eight people can view the display simultaneously while one person navigates and interacts with the virtual environment. This system provides a stereo display, 6-degree-of-freedom head-tracking and 6-degree-of-freedom input devices. Head tracking allows the automatic update of the simulated eyepoint, allowing the user to look around and behind objects. The input devices allow navigation in and interaction with the virtual environment.

• Pyramid Systems ImmersaDesk
  • 4' x 5' rear-projected display using Barco projector
  • CrystalEyes emitters and stereo glasses
  • Ascension SpacePad 6DOF trackers (and PC) for head and wand
  • Separate PC for tracking
  • Wand has 3 buttons and joystick
  • CAVE software
  • SGI 4-processor Onyx2 with 2 GB memory and InfiniteReality2 Graphics
• Software
  • CAVE software
  • SGI Performer
  • SGI OpenGL

(The ImmersaDesk and CAVE software were originally developed at the Electronics Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois, Chicago. ImmersaDesks are now a commercial product from Fakespace Systems.)

This page written and maintained by Erik Brisson (ebrisson@bu.edu).