PRACTICAL DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A CAVE SYSTEM - High Quality Four Walls CAVE Howto

Achille Peternier, Sylvain Cardin, Frédéric Vexo, Daniel Thalmann

2007

Abstract

CAVE systems are nowadays one of the best Virtual Reality (VR) immersive devices available for rendering virtual environments. Unfortunately, such kind of hardware is extremely expensive, complex and cumbersome, thus limited in its spread. Several cheaper solutions already exist, but they implement usually only a subset of features of a professional CAVE. In this paper we describe how we have built a low cost CAVE with four screens (three walls and a floor), stereographic rendering and user tracking by only using hardware commonly available on the market and free software, we show the different solutions and work-around we implemented to solve the problems we encountered and we conclude with an evaluation of our system by using two applications we developed with it.

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Peternier A., Cardin S., Vexo F. and Thalmann D. (2007). PRACTICAL DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A CAVE SYSTEM - High Quality Four Walls CAVE Howto . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 2: GRAPP, ISBN 978-972-8865-72-6, pages 129-136. DOI: 10.5220/0002080701290136


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@conference{grapp07,
author={Achille Peternier and Sylvain Cardin and Frédéric Vexo and Daniel Thalmann},
title={PRACTICAL DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A CAVE SYSTEM - High Quality Four Walls CAVE Howto},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 2: GRAPP,},
year={2007},
pages={129-136},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002080701290136},
isbn={978-972-8865-72-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 2: GRAPP,
TI - PRACTICAL DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A CAVE SYSTEM - High Quality Four Walls CAVE Howto
SN - 978-972-8865-72-6
AU - Peternier A.
AU - Cardin S.
AU - Vexo F.
AU - Thalmann D.
PY - 2007
SP - 129
EP - 136
DO - 10.5220/0002080701290136