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We have a wide range of immersive virtual reality and augmented reality equipment:

A four-walled immersive VE system (ReaCTor), which is similar to a CAVE®
Various Head-mounted displays: VR1280, VR8, VR4, Sony Glasstron & LiteEye
An Onyx Infinite Reality 2, used to drive the ReaCTor
An SGI Prism, used to drive the ReaCTor
Two PC cluster systems than can be used to drive HMDs or the ReaCTor
Wireless Intersense IS-900 in the ReaCTor and two Fastrak tracking systems.
Vicon motion capture system integrated in the ReaCTor
A phantom system and a custom two-handed force-feedback system for use in the ReaCTor
A variety of bio-signals amplifiers and sensors. Including g.tech and procomp systems
A range of high-end PC systems
High-end GPS, still camera systems, flash units, firewire camera systems, PDAs, video-cameras, ...

The main VR software that we use and to which we have contributed to is DIVE. We also use CAVELib, VRJuggler, Performer, OpenSG, XVR

Some of our research software is available for use either on request or publicly . This includes:

  • DIVE

    - a distributed VR platform that supports immersive and desktop systems.
  • PIAVCA

    - a high-level avatar animation suite.
  • Mixed Reality Toolkit

    - for integrating virtual entities in to live video.

     

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