CAVE,+Cave+Automatic+Virtual+Environment

Type in the content of your page here. **CAVE ** **Cave Automatic Virtual Environment **
 * Ohoud Omar **
 * Amal Al Suilati **

· **Executive summary: ** Cave is analyzed in this report as an example of 3-D immersive information visualization systems. Cave technology is the perfect way to create an environment of any kind indoors.  It uses both hardware and software to create a virtual environment. Not only that, it allows the user to go into this imaginary cave of designed environment and move inside and his movement would affect the graphical objects that are floating around. This paper would describe the technology and how the hardware is placed in to make the cave work. Also, it will mention the list of relative software that should be implemented by the hardware to create the cave and its graphical objects. Moreover, it would give you a historical background about cave and its first introduction. One of the most important parts of the paper is the applications and benefits part that describes the fields in which cave can be used in. by the end of the paper, cave technology becomes more understandable so the recommendation would be to move forward to own cave because it a very positive addition to any educational and training organization.

· **Technology description ** The CAVE technology stands for Cave Automatic Virtual Environment. It's a very useful tool that helps us to interact with a virtual world. The CAVE is a technology that needs special kind of both hardware and software to be used. The CAVE is a 3-Dimentional theater; its dimensions are 10 X 10 X 9. The user of the CAVE technology can sets the cave theater in any room of any size. How the theater is maintained? The theater walls or the CAVE walls are maintained by placing different projectors in each direction; one to the right, one to the left, and one behind. The floor is maintained by a floor screen projector as well. These projectors should be of high resolution. These projectors displays images on the screens and then the images get reflected on the mirrors that are placed at each end of the cave. The mirrors serve important roles; mirrors often reduce the distance required from the projectors to the screens. This technology creates a mini environment inside the cave with graphics to demonstrate the environment that the user wants to display. After setting the environment the user can go into the cave and manipulates the graphics displayed around him. The user should wear a pair of protective glasses, those glasses are not only for the sake of protection; they allow the user to see the 3D graphics. These glasses allow viewers to see the 3D objects floating in the air. So, the one inside the cave and anyone who is watching the process should wear those special glasses. The special characteristic of these glasses is that it has electromagnetic sensors that allow the one who wears the glasses to see the graphics. Moreover, the cave provide not only 3D video, it provides a 3D audio as well by placing speakers at all angles of the cave. The aspect that the CAVE technology actually miss and if exists would add a lot to the technology. The aspect is the total ability to manipulate the 3D objects. By this I mean the ability of moving the object from one position to another or for example if we have a box, the user inside the cave can open this box and gets something from inside the box. This aspect will help test more behavioral interactions with the objects which will allow the CAVE technology to be used in more fields of research.
 * Definition & Description: **

The CAVE was first introduced to the world of technology in the year 1992 by its developer the University of Illinois at Chicago. The CAVE was developed as a response to the challenge of SIGRAPH. The challenge was to create a visualization 3D theater and the CAVE answered the challenge. The inventors of the CAVE are Carolina Cruz-Naira, Thomas A. De Fanti and Daniel J. Sandin and they have got the credit of the invention. It has been used for further scientific researches in different fields that require total visualization. The license of the CAVE had been in hands of many organizations, now it's in the hands of Mechdyne Corporation <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">History & Background: **

<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Costs and benefits: ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">After reading about the technology of the Cave, the benefits pops up in your mind right away. It's a very useful technology that makes the application of visualization easy. The CAVE technology is owned by many universities and research centers. In terms of education, the visualization can help students understand more applications. Especially when we talk about disabled students who need more visualization to make the understanding easy. When it comes to research, engineers can use CAVE in training and practicing the field work. 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(defense application of cave)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Benefits: **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Two major factors make the use of CAVE technology hard which are the cost and the size. The technology is very expensive that it can't be owned by any organization or educational center. Moreover, the technology requires a lot of space to be applied. Such requirement may not be available at all centers. That’s why some scientist developed a derivative way to use the CAVE technology which is by using only one projector.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Costs: **

<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Complementary technologies: ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Cave technology requires a long list of software that should be combined with the hard ware that includes the screens, mirrors, and high resolution projectors. Before we talk about the soft ware, its very important to point out that the CAVE technology needs a lot of space to work in the planned way. Here are some of the software that should be there for the cave to work effectively: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Here is the software that is involved in the graphics and writing applications: <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· OpenSG <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· OpenSceneGraph <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· OpenGL Performer <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· CAVELib <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· VR Juggler <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· CoVE <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ( wikipedia,cave)

<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Technology adoption recommendations **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The technology of CAVE is used by a wide range of different universities, educational, and training centers. Attached to the report is a list of the universities that own CAVE. When you go through the list of universities it shows very obviously that the technology is owned by strong universities and centers that have a good reputation in terms of the quality of education and training delivered. This shows that the level of education is totally relative to the use of new technologies including CAVE. My recommendations to the centers that own CAVE is to involve students more in using the technology and allow them to add and manipulate the technology in order to develop it even more and make it useful to their application of it. On the other hand, organizations that don't own CAVE, they have to afford owning it because it will definitely help them deliver a higher education in terms of quality.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Here is a list that is taken from Wikipedia the page of (Cave automatic virtual environment), this list include the universities that owns CAV
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Centre of Virtual Reality of Clermont-Ferrand - France from [|Université d'Auvergne] has a 4-sided CAVE.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|Rowan University] has a 4-walled CAVE at the South Jersey Technology Park used for data visualization and remote health management applications.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Centre of Virtual Reality of Barcelona from [|Polytechnic University of Catalonia] has a 4-sided CAVE.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The <span style="color: #cc2200; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE)] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> has a 6-sided CAVE.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The 4-wall Cave [|[4]] at [|University College London]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|EVL] at [|University of Illinois at Chicago]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Virtual Reality Applications Center ([|VRAC]) at [|Iowa State University] is the home to a pair of CAVEs: a 4 walled CAVE and a 6 walled CAVE (renovated in 2007, highest resolution CAVE in world).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|Brown University] also owns a CAVE. Students use the systems for a variety of purposes, including engineering, physics, chemical, psychological, biological, and geological research, as well as for art courses, tours of the human body, architecture study, mathematics, meteorology and virtual archaeological excavations.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign] has a CAVE, a 6-walled CUBE, and a 3-walled portable [|CANVAS]. The CUBE is used for cognitive psychology research, geometry, urban planning data visualization, interdisciplinary communications courses. The CANVAS is used primarily for creating tools for artists to use in VR.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|Duke University] has the [|DiVE], a 6-walled 'CAVE'.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|Indiana University] had a 4-wall CAVE at the Bloomington campus and now has a 4-wall [|Barco MoVE Lite] at the Indianapolis campus operated by the [|Advanced Visualization Lab]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|University of Linz] has a 4-walled CAVE mainly used by the [|Inst. of Graphics and Parallel Processing] ([|CAVE@GUP])
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|Pennsylvania State University] owns a 5 wall CAVE system and supports many fielded CAVE systems *around the country via their [|Applied Research Laboratory](ARL). The Extreme Events System Lab of the [|Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology] also has a CAVE for simulating extreme events and emergency response.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|University of Reading] owns a CAVE which is used for several research projects including medical visualisation.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|Virginia Polytechnic Institute] has a 4-walled CAVE
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|United Arab Emirates University] A 3-walled CAVE used in Architectural Education and Research. ([|[5]])
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|University of Calgary] has a 4-walled CAVE.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|University College Dublin] has a 4-walled front-projected CAVE.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|University of Groningen] owns a CAVE.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|Macquarie University] owns a CAVE.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|University of Southern Mississippi] owns a CAVE, along with another at sister-site [|Stennis Space Center].
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|University of California, Davis] has a CAVE operated by the W. M. Keck Center for Active Visualization in Earth Sciences. ([|www.keckcaves.org])
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|University of California, San Diego] has a CAVE operated by the Immersive Visualization Lab in the Atkinson Hall building, also known as the Calit2 (California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology) building. ([|www.calit2.net])
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|Wright State University] has a 5-walled CAVE operated by the Department of Psychology ([|www.psych.wright.edu]) and a 4-wall at daytaOhio ([|www.daytaOhio.com])
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|University of Michigan] owns a CAVE.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|Newcastle University] has a 3-walled CAVE as part of its Virtual Reality Suite.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Virtual Manufacturing Systems Laboratory (VMS), Department of [|Industrial Engineering], [|Chulalongkorn University], [|Bangkok], [|Thailand] owns a PC-CAVE with 4 walls for FRONT-, LEFT-, RIGHT-, and FLOOR-screen. ( [|VMS@IE-CU])
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">School of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Seinäjoki University of applied sciences, [|VR laboratory], [|Seinäjoki], [|Finland] has a 5-walled CAVE that is run with Silicon Graphics Onyx4 UltimateVision and PC-Cluster.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|University of Arizona] has a 4-walled CAVE used for data and bio-medical visualization, 3D visual arts, and history projects. ([|AZ-LIVE])
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|University of Caxias do Sul] has a 4-walled CAVE used for general purpose visualization, as well 3D visual arts. Developed by New Technologies in Visual Arts Lab - (NTAV) ([|Artecno Group])
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|Avans Hogeschool] has a virtual CAVE that used to belong to SARA. It is used by the Academie voor ICT & Media faculty.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|Fontys University of Applied Sciences], Eindhoven, The Netherlands, has a 4-sided CAVE using passive stereo projection with [|Infitec] technology. ([|here])
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The [|Polytechnic University of Valencia] has a cave also ([|here])
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The [|Arctic Region Supercomputing Center] operates the Discovery Lab (a 4-walled CAVE) at the [|University of Alaska Fairbanks].
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|Cornell University] maintains a 3-wall CAVE.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The [|Vision psychophysics and perception laboratory] at [|Université de Montréal] has a 4-walled CAVE system. The CAVE system is used for vision research.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The [|CAVE at the Art Institute of Chicago] is a 1-wall cave with an integrated surround-sound system via OSC/Supercollider; also integrating WiiMote interface. Part of the Arts and Technologies Studies at the school.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The [|Desert Research Institute]'s Reno, Nevada campus has a 4-wall CAVE. DRI opened an new 6 sided CAVE on 08/27/09.([|article here])
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The [|University of Salford's][|Centre for Virtual Environments] houses perhaps the world's largest collection of large Scale VR equipment, including CAVE, Reality Room, Workbench and Trace systems.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The [|University of Central Lancashire] operates a 3-wall CAVE in its 3D Visualisation Suite, run by the Applied Digital Signal and Image Processing Research Centre.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The CAVE in the [|Ars Electronica Centre] in Linz, Austria was the first to be installed outside the US. It, the CAVE at the ICC in Tokyo, and the CANVAS at Illinois, are open to the public.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The [|HLRS] at [|University of Stuttgart] is operating a 4-wall CAVE. The main application area is the visualization of simulation results, see [|here] for a list of applications and users.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The [|FH Wedel University of Applied Sciences] has a 4-wall CAVE with a dolby surround sound system and [|tactile sound] which enables for a high immersion. The focus lies on student projects e.g. interactive VR games or data visualisation. The WiiMote interface is currently being integrated, detailed information can be found on the [|project page] //(German)//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The [|AG WBS] at [|University of Bielefeld] owns a CAVE
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The [|virtual reality group] at [|RWTH Aachen] owns a 5-walled CAVE
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The [|Cyberpsychology Lab of UQO] at [|Université du Québec en Outaouais] owns a 6-walled "CAVE" nicknamed Psyche (in reference to its dedication to psychology and mental health research).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The [|VR Media Lab] at [|University of Aalborg], Denmark, has a 6-walled CAVE available for student projects.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">A 6-walled CAVE [|[6]] at [|York University] in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|CCG] at [|University of Minho], Guimarães, Portugal owns a cave.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The [|Virtual Reality and Additive Manufacturing Lab] at [|Missouri University of Science and Technology] has a 4-walled CAVE.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The [|Laboratory of Integrated Systems] (LSI) at [|University of Sao Paulo] has a 5-walled CAVE [|[7]].
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Usti nad Labem] (Czech republic), [|Faculty of Science], [|Department of Geography] has 3-walled CAVE [|Link]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)] in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

references:

Wikipedia, cave automatic virtual environment, [] Defense application of the cave, [] Cave website, [] Hastac, the future of education, [] Breaking Education and Research Barriers with 3D Visualization CAVE Technology, []