Some of it even got done. Here is an index of projects that are getting underway this summer. We are developing the ability to originate broadcasts over Vosaic and multicasts over the MBone . We will soon join the MSRI MBone project to promote real-time electronic communication in mathematics. This is an illiShell94 derived CAVE action game with physics based ballistics, collisions and wave motions.
Action is controlled by intuitively obvious wand gestures.
In a multifactorial block design we will test naive subjects in each of the four modes and record their scores in this fast paced, highly entertaining but difficult CAVE game developed for Math 198 by Kevin Vlack. Cognitive scientist, Alex Francis at the University of Chicago will consult on the statistical design and evaluation. Each vertex of the displayed scene is processed depending on the position of the head and an object with variable mass. Thus the load on the display resources is proportional to the complexity of the scene displayed, but not, for instance, on the speed of navigation. We are currently installing this project in the Marcus Thiebaux's Virtual Director and illiConnecting it to the mutliprocessor Onyxes.