From: jleigh@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Jason Leigh)
Subject: Re: INDUSTRY: New VR Display Classes, etc.
Date: 3 Sep 1996 03:58:58 GMT
Message-ID: <50gae2$96v@news.eecs.uic.edu>
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago



Edlantz (edlantz@aol.com) wrote:

: Names are important, as they give us a common framework to have
: discussions within. Sometimes there are problems, for example Sun's
: "Virtual Portal" was developed at the same time as the U. Chicago
: "CAVE", yet the generic name for such displays seems to be "CAVEs",
: yet many people seem to think this refers exclusively to the
: U. Chicago work.

on a side note on the importance of names:

it's not the U. of Chicago that came up with the CAVE,
it's the U. of Illinois at Chicago. Or it might be easier to just
say the Electronic Visualization Lab (EVL) came up with the CAVE-
then we can avoid the Chicago confusion.

Back on the subject of importance of names:

people do seem to refer exclusively to UIC when it comes to the CAVE.
This might be because UIC came up with an acronymn that stuck- kind
of like BOOM.


Jason Leigh
jleigh@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Jason Leigh)
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