1. University of Illinois at Chicago CAVERN The CAVE Research Network Maxine D. Brown Electronic Visualization Laboratory

2. University of Illinois at Chicago CAVE Research and Development 1992—Prototype CAVE 1993—10’x10’x10’ CAVE 1994—SIGGRAPH VROOM 1995—I-WAY at SC’95 1997—100 CAVES and derivatives worldwide 1997-8—NSF funding for CAVERN and new desktop VR devices for the Grid, STAR TAP and NCSA

3. University of Illinois at Chicago Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) 25 years at UIC Joint program: EECS and Art & Design 2 directors and 12 associated faculty 10 staff 50 graduate students (27 EVL supported) Long-time application collaborations –National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) –Argonne National Laboratory –Building the Grid together

4. University of Illinois at Chicago EVL Computing and Networking Facilities 4 CAVE-sized Onyx rack computers 2 CAVEs, 8 ImmersaDesks, many workstations, at EVL and allied UI labs OC-3 networking to MREN, vBNS, and STAR TAP Access to the Grid: Very large SP2s, SGI’s at Argonne and NCSA and >100 CAVEs and ImmersaDesks worldwide

5. University of Illinois at Chicago The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure I. Foster, C. Kesselman (Eds), Morgan Kaufmann, 1999 ISBN 1-55860-475-8 22 chapters by expert authors including Andrew Chien, Jack Dongarra, Tom DeFanti, Andrew Grimshaw, Roch Guerin, Ken Kennedy, Paul Messina, Cliff Neuman, Jon Postel, Larry Smarr, Rick Stevens, and many others http://www.mkp.com/grids “A source book for the history of the future” -- Vint Cerf

6. University of Illinois at Chicago Midwest Networked CAVE and ImmersaDesk Sites UIC-Chicago UIUC-Urbana Argonne NL U Wisconsin U Michigan Indiana U U Iowa Iowa State U Minnesota U of Chicago

7. University of Illinois at Chicago NCSA Partners Connected by the vBNS

8. University of Illinois at Chicago STAR TAP: Science Technology And Research Transit Access Point Source: http://www.startap.net/topology.html Japan Korea Singapore Taiwan Australia France Iceland Sweden Denmark Norway Finland Netherlands Israel Russia CERN Canada The Persistent Interconnect for NGI, Internet2, International High-Performance Networks

9. University of Illinois at Chicago CAVERN CAVE Research Network (CAVERN) CAVE Research Network User’s Society (CAVERNUS) Networks not only facilitate but seem to mandate partnerships

10. University of Illinois at Chicago Tele-Immersion –Viewer-centered perspective –Large angle of view –Stereo –Seeing and talking to distant collaborators Tele-Immersion is the merger of VR worlds and people--3D phone calls! For each user, Tele-Immersion needs to support:

11. University of Illinois at Chicago Why Represent People ? Need to know relationship of people to synthetic world To signal exchange and shared control To communicate states of collaborators To recognize people and tell who is talking And, people want to be “in the picture”

12. University of Illinois at Chicago Two Representations of People Video images Synthetic models (avatars)

13. University of Illinois at Chicago Tele-Immersion and CAVERNsoft Tele-Immersion requires expertise in graphics, VR, audio/video compression, networking, databases Rapidly build new tele- immersive applications Retro-fit old applications CAVERNsoft enables applications!

14. University of Illinois at Chicago CAVERNsoft: Car Interiors VisualEyes worldwide General Motors Research and Hughes Research Labs

15. University of Illinois at Chicago Caterpillar’s Distributed Virtual Reality Data courtesy of Valerie Lehner, NCSA, 1996

16. University of Illinois at Chicago CAVERNsoft: Virtual Director

17. University of Illinois at Chicago Requirements for Tele-Immersion Collaborative interaction and manipulation Communication: audio, video & avatars (virtual participants) Synchronous and asynchronous work Network and database quality of service Multiple heterogeneous data streams

18. University of Illinois at Chicago More Requirements for Tele-Immersion Flexible connectivity High level modules for developers Performance monitoring Recordability Trans-oceanic capability Cultural sensitivity (e.g., avatar gesture translators)

19. University of Illinois at Chicago CAVERNsoft Case Studies NICE—an educational environment

20. University of Illinois at Chicago CAVERNsoft Case Studies Virtual Temporal Bone UIC Virtual Reality Medicine Lab

21. University of Illinois at Chicago V-Mail A tool for asynchronous collaboration Virtual Trainer CAVERNsoft Case Studies

22. University of Illinois at Chicago iGrid: The International Grid Research Demonstrations, SC’98 22 demonstrations that featured technical innovations and application advancements requiring high-speed networks, with emphasis on distributed computing, tele-immersion, large datasets, remote instrumentation, and collaboration 10 countries: Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, USA

23. University of Illinois at Chicago International Applications-Level Networking Issues Building relationships Time zones –Asynchronous collaboration –Annotations and recording Network speeds / QoS needs Speed of light Audio Culture

24. University of Illinois at Chicago SC’98 iGrid Industrial Mold Filling Indiana University (USA), Argonne National Laboratory (USA), Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA), Industrial Materials Institute, NRC (Canada), Centre de Recherche en Calcul Appliqué (Canada)

25. University of Illinois at Chicago SC’98 iGrid 3D Magneto Hydrodynamic Equations Sandia National Laboratories (USA), Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (USA), High Performance Computing Center, a division of the Computing Center of Stuttgart University (Germany)

26. University of Illinois at Chicago SC’98 iGrid Telebot and Einstein Spacetime University of Illinois at Chicago (USA)Max Planck Institut fuer Gravitationphysik, Albert Einstein Institut (Germany), NCSA (USA), Argonne National Laboratory (USA), Washington University (USA)

27. University of Illinois at Chicago SC’98 iGrid Taiwan Numerical Wind Tunnel National Center for High Performance Computing (Taiwan), National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan), National Chioa-Tung University (Taiwan)

28. University of Illinois at Chicago SC’98 iGrid—The Netherlands Parallel Lighting Simulation SARA: Academic Computing Services Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

29. University of Illinois at Chicago Impact: Five Years From Now Tele-immersion and data mining over high speed networks will be routine; audio, video, gesture and haptics will be integrated with latency tolerant techniques Methods for recording, editing, annotating, replaying, and broadcasting tele-immersive sessions will be perfected; avatars will help convey a true sense of tele-presence

30. University of Illinois at Chicago International Impact Tele-immersion is particularly critical for trans-oceanic science and engineering users Implementation is particularly difficult and challenging as distance increases Significant participation expected by international researchers via STAR TAP, given support for applications development

31. University of Illinois at Chicago For More Information Websites www.evl.uic.edu www.evl.uic.edu/cavern www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/VR/cavernus www.startap.net