About us - Virtual Reality laboratory

Virtual Visit

Beyond checking the equipment listed below, you can also pop around for a visit in our laboratory, in the form of a Quicktime Virtual Reality tour (527 KB). Before taking the tour, you must have the corresponding plug-in installed on your computer, which is available from Apple Computer.

Equipment Overview

3D Projection	Development Software	3D Interaction
Large rear projection system: BARON projection table (Barco) Head-Mounted Displays: ProView XL 50 (Kaiser) LDI-D100BE (Sony)	WorldToolKit, WorldUp, World2World (Sense8) ViSTA (Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen) Mechanical Desktop (Autodesk) Anthropos (IST) Maya (Autodesk) Director (Macromedia)	Tracking systems: Flock of Birds, short and long range, respectively (Ascension) iView head- mounted eyetracking system (SMI) Input devices: 6DOF Mouse (Ascension) SpaceMouse Classic (3Dconnexion) CyberGlove (virtual technologies) Haptic feedback device: PHANToM Desktop (SenseAble)
	3D Scanner
Computers
PCs with Tornado 3000 graphics adapter (Evans & Sutherland) or Fire GL 4 graphics adapter (ATI) running Windows 2000	Vitus Pro body scanner (Vitronic)

BARON projection table

ProView XL 50

LDI-D100BE

SpaceMouse Classic

CyberGlove

PHANToM Desktop

Vitus Pro body scanner

Created 2000 by
Dietmar Gude, Eike Branahl & Martha Patricia Casares Gonzalez
Last modified 08.10.2007 by Dietmar Gude