What is a CAVE Good For? 54
ynakai asks: "Today, I had the fortune to be allowed to play with demo applications in a CAVE.
This technology is stunning, but what is the killer app? A staffer said that despite the potential use as a teaching tool for medical students, the system is rarely used now except by digital artists (who admittedly create some stunning experiences - try the VRML versions of some).
Surely Slashdot can think up better ways to make use of a multimillion dollar room of fully immersive 3D interaction, besides FPS games?"
IM sure there will be many uses proposed. (Score:2)
hmmm (Score:2)
Driver education would probably be a good use.
You would only need to cover the passenger compartment windows with screens.
Of course the animatronic backseat driving mother-inlaw could drive up costs
and the suicide rate.
pr0n would be cool (Score:3, Funny)
The blood, it looks so... real... (Score:2)
Better, yeah probably, but cooler, I dunno. Also, if you were a nerd in charge of coming up with idea for applying this technology, and it was already paid for, why on earth would you give up the best gaming rig on the planet. I'm sure there are a lot of great ideas, but everyone is afraid of losing their UT03K "test lab".
Spreadsheets and word processing (Score:1)
Taking these to the 3rd dimension and immersive could make the profession of accountant and secretary more attractive to young college graduates.
Re:Spreadsheets and word processing (Score:1)
Two words. (Score:2)
I'll be the first of many to say it... (Score:1, Redundant)
Military use [duh!] (Score:2)
Blantant Plug -- Got a CAVE -- Use Ensight! (Score:3, Interesting)
EnSight -- See what you're missing! (Please mod accordingly for cheese content.)
Grant Money (Score:2)
for those of you who don't have an Indigo2... (Score:2, Informative)
http://ca.com/cosmo/ [ca.com]
CAVE experience here (Score:2, Informative)
There is a definate wow factor to it that helps in promoting the research, but for the most part it becomes stale fast.
Another shameless plug here, a custom math visualization system I spent quite a while in the developmen
Re:CAVE experience here (Score:4, Informative)
Re:CAVE experience here (Score:1)
Re:CAVE experience here (Score:2)
I can think of a lot of answers... (Score:2)
Who would have guess that computers would someday be used for Instant Messaging in the 1970's? First computers have to be cheap, then penetrate the market, then get hooked up, then the software be developed, etc. I can imagine immersive setups or MMORPGs or really useful collaboration tools or all kinds of other things that require a lot of people to own the hardware or a lot more bandwidth.
Basically, if you imagine technology a
Re:I can think of a lot of answers... (Score:2)
But that's just me.
Interestingly enough.. (Score:2)
walk-through/around (Score:1)
Two words (Score:3, Interesting)
CaveQuake (Score:2)
caveQuake [uiuc.edu]
The guy that did that work is one of the princples of Visbox [visbox.com], a company that does high end displays. They were at Siggraph this past year.
Re:CaveQuake (Score:2)
I've never personally used a CAVE, but after looking over some of the reading material and the caveQuake site I can honestly say that I probably wouldn't be able to play FPS's in a CAVE.
The head tracking sounds good at first, until I think of how much twisting and turning I actually put my gun-toting avatars through; if I had to do that with my neck I'd either be in a neck
Re:CaveQuake (Score:2)
I've got motion sickness justa by sitting down in front of the screen and doing just non-stop running, and that was in Doom. You're not any more prone to motion sickness with CQ than you are with a regular screen, as long as you're the one controlling the action in CQ.
do not dismiss porn (Score:4, Funny)
Movie theaters
VCRs
Pay TV
The Internet
i.e. Basically all forms of rich media transmission. Do not dismiss porn as a venue to sell your new technology. It truly could be very helpful.
Re:do not dismiss porn (Score:1)
Yep, I can.... (Score:1)
It never ceases to draw the "oohs and ahhs" from customers. The thing is, they actually find it useful, not just as some pretty eye candy. I guess you'd want to for the price of that SGI Onyx
Class trips around the world (Score:2)
The missing bit of technology would be something that could interpolate between QTVR nodes in a scene, to allow for arbitrary motion. Yeah, that's hard, but there are few motivators as enticing as cool hardware.
oil industry (Score:2)
Halliburton recently bought a company here in Houston called magic earth [magicearth.com].
They have a nice dome shaped cave [magicearth.com] for 3D oil exploration.
too bad the idiots don't have a larger picture on their website.
All that oil money buys some really cool toys.
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Re:oil industry (Score:1)
Re:oil industry (Score:2)
Re:oil industry (Score:1)
http://www.sis.slb.com/content/about/campaigns/pe
A Cave is good for... (Score:1)
Well... (Score:1)
> What is a CAVE Good For?
Ask OBL; he's lived in one for the past two years.
I've used CAVE... (Score:2)
Another application I can think of is exploratory data analysis (or data mining if you prefer). You can have multiple visualizations of a large data set floating around and even go into the data. The thing is that humans are very good a pa
Lots of things (Score:2)
It might be interesting in computer vision -- you can actually produce an environment to desired specifications (or over a gradient of worsening conditions) to test in.
Commercial 3d virt
Phobia trainers (Score:2)
What is a CAVE Good For? (Score:1)
How cool would Batman be without it?
Typo? (Score:2)
Staff of EVL? Boy does that lend itself to typo abuse.
CAVE in Linz (Score:2)
I'd say the main areas of use for a CAVE system are design and construction, for example cars or houses. Anything that needs to been seen with the spatial component but is too expensive to build as a prototype. Just imagine building a house and then having to tear it down again because in the comp
Headset better? (Score:1)
Re:Headset better? (Score:2)
Flatland (Score:2)
Another fun thing would be flying! Without a plane, of course, the way Superman or the Flying Nun used to do it. In the spirit of Douglas Adams, you'd start off by throwing yourself at the ground and missing.
It also shouldn't be hard to arrange a walking tour for architecture students through a city that includes hundreds of architectura
Other than FPS? Training... Military... (Score:1)
Most outdoor type of work though would be alot cheaper performed outside somewhere. The advantage of a CAVE system is that you could have a standardized model that everyone practices or test
Surely . . . (Score:1)
I started to reach for the keyboard at this point, but then:
. . . besides FPS games?
D'oh! Well, if you're going to add that little proviso, then no, I can't think of anything . . .
Software Development (Score:1)
Most IDEs and editors feel visually constraining. (Think how useful your desk would truly be if you had to interact with it through a 12x13 hole.
I want the complete document in front of me, with another complete document sitting right next to it. (I actually used to print out code, lay it out on the floor, and debug with a pencil.
Big, curved screens are better (Score:2)
Trading (Score:2)
Make an app where you can see it all and manipulate (via hooks to a trading to trading system/spreadsheet/e-trade) everything and you are on a winner - even 0.1% increase in profitability matters when you do a lot of trades