The first cave gets an upgrade

From this article at AScribe :

“More than $4 million in equipment upgrades will shine 100 million pixels on Iowa State University’s six-sided virtual reality room.
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Iowa State’s C6 opened in June 2000 as the country’s first six-sided virtual reality room designed to immerse users in images and sound. The graphics and projection technology that made such immersion possible hasn’t been updated since the C6 opened.
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The new equipment – a Hewlett-Packard computer featuring 96 graphics processing units, 24 Sony digital projectors, an eight-channel audio system and ultrasonic motion tracking technology – will be installed by Fakespace Systems Inc. of Marshalltown.”

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  1. Si il s’agit du projecteur sony auquel je pense (vu sur laval Virtual 2006) ca doit faire un sacré bruit et prendre une sacré place comme installation. Mais la résolution et luminosité doit etre superbe effectivement… Vivement la meme chose sur notre SAS3 😉

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