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The UC Davis KeckCAVES project
Featured Campus Seminars| Speaker: | Oliver Kreylos, Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization |
| Location: | 1147 MSB |
| Start time: | Wed, Mar 1 2006, 4:10PM |
KeckCAVES (The W.M. Keck Center for Active Visualization in the Earth Sciences, http://keckcaves.geology.ucdavis.edu) is a collaborative project between Earth scientists and computer scientists, with the goal to develop, and apply, advanced visualization techniques to Earth science research. KeckCAVES' centerpiece is a walk-in immersive visualization environment (a 4-sided CAVE). More importantly, however, KeckCAVES brings together researchers from visualization/computer science and Earth science to develop problem-specific immersive ("virtual reality") visualization software to address complex Earth science problems. In this presentation, I will introduce the fundamentals of virtual reality, what sets it apart from "regular" visualization, and how KeckCAVES utilizes VR's benefits to investigate scientific questions.