From: Tom Coffin Subject: ANNOUNCE: CAVERNUS UPDATE 11-14-1997 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 10:38:07 -0600 Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ----------------------- CAVE Research Network Users Society ___________ http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/VR/cavernus/ /| /| /_|________ / | | | | | | | | | | |________|__| | / | / |/__________|/ !!!! CAVERNUS UPDATE !!!! ___________________________________________________________ *********************************************************** 11-14-1997 The Latest link on the CAVERNUS is to CAVERN, the CAVE Research Network. CAVERN is an alliance of industrial and research institutions equipped with CAVEs, ImmersaDesks and high-performance computing resources all interconnected by high-speed networks to support collaboration in design, training, scientific visualization and computational steering, in virtual reality. The CAVE Research Network Users Society will have it's first ever Birds of a Feather session at the upcoming SC97. The BOF is scheduled for: ******************************************** CAVERNUS - Birds of a Feather - SC97 Tuesday night, November 18, at 7:00pm in Room H of the San Jose Convention Center. ******************************************** This Birds of a Feather is a chance for CAVE users to meet and discuss issues pertaining to projection-based virtual reality environments.Speakers will include: Jason Leigh------------"CAVERN" Electronic Visualization Lab Volodymyr Kindratenko--"Caterpillar's NCSA Distributed Virtual Reality System" ___________________________________________ This will be a great chance to weigh the different Distributed VR systems. CAVERN which uses the CAVELibraries and Caterpillar's DVR which does not. ___________________________________________ Glen H. Wheless--------"CAVE5D" Old Dominion University Ted Jordan-------------"CAVE Systems" Pyramid Systems Kurt Hoffmeister-------"SSVR Systems" MechDyne Bill Sherman and Tom Coffin of NCSA will also be available to answer your hardware and software questions. For more info, contact Tom Coffin at: tcoffin@ncsa.uiuc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------- Tom Coffin tcoffin@ncsa.uiuc.edu National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Virtual Environments Group University of Illinois, Urbana tel: 217-244-3664 M/C 476 - 152 CAB lab: 217-244-4913 605 East Springfield Avenue fax: 217-244-2909 Champaign, IL 61820 http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~tcoffin ___________________________________________________________