MRI: LIVE: Laboratory for Immersive Virtual Experiments

University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL

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Abstract

EIA-0079800 Huang, Thomas S. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign MRI: LIVE: Laboratory for Immersive Virtual Experiments This proposal establishes the Laboratory for Immersive Virtual Environments (LIVE) which will provide a testbed for engineering and computer science research on distributed graphics, sensor integration, audio display, and human face, speech, and gesture recognition. Psychologists will use LIVE to determine how visual perception drives information extraction, navigation, and human movement. Scientists will use LIVE to explore and analyze their three dimensional datasets. Twenty-five faculty members from nine departments will use LIVE to build and understand virtual worlds and human interfaces. The heart of LIVE will be a fully enclosed, 6-sided, 10'x10'x10', backprojected virtual reality environment to be housed at the Beckman Institute and the University of Illinois.