Collaborative scientific visualization in networked immersive virtual environment

Author

Ogi, T. ; Tamagawa, K. ; Yamada, T. ; Hirose, M.

Author_Institution

MVL Res. Center, Tokyo Univ., Japan

Volume

6

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

87

Abstract

A collaborative scientific visualization environment was constructed by connecting the CABIN immersive multi-screen display system to several immersive projection displays and to supercomputers via a broadband network. In this environment, users in remote places are able to discuss the displayed phenomena while looking at the same data. In particular, a video avatar method was developed to realize natural communication in a shared virtual world. This method was applied to the visualization of several kinds of scientific data, and its effectiveness was evaluated

Keywords

broadband networks; computer displays; data visualisation; distributed processing; groupware; natural sciences computing; virtual reality; CABIN; broadband network; collaborative scientific visualization environment; immersive multi-screen display system; immersive projection displays; natural communication; networked immersive virtual environment; remote users; shared virtual world; supercomputers; video avatar method; Avatars; Collaboration; Data visualization; Displays; Intelligent networks; Space shuttles; Space technology; Switches; Video sharing; Virtual environment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5731-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1999.816461

Filename

816461