{"id":370,"date":"2007-11-22T00:27:23","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T23:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/22\/the-pocket-cathedral-birth-of-the-cave\/"},"modified":"2008-01-08T23:49:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T22:49:32","slug":"the-pocket-cathedral-birth-of-the-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/22\/the-pocket-cathedral-birth-of-the-cave\/","title":{"rendered":"The pocket cathedral &#8211; birth of the CAVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alextactac.free.fr\/wordpress\">Alex Bouchet<\/a> showed me those two vintage videos of the early days of the CAVE :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;(1991) before the CAVE was called &#8220;The CAVE&#8221; it was internally named the Pocket Cathedral (actually it was called the Closet Cathedral &#8211; or the Closet for short).<br \/>\nThe CAVE was invented by the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems CAVE stood for Cave Audio Visual Environment, then Cave Automatic Virtual Environment.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Sandin says that CAVE refers to &#8220;both the early cave paintings and to the shadows of the ideal forms in Plato&#8217;s cave&#8221;.<br \/>\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ey61u9J5Bgs[\/youtube]\n<p>(<strong>Update<\/strong>: Here&#8217;s another good introductory video to the CAVE system : 1993)<br \/>\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aKL0urEdtPU[\/youtube]\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-Sf6bJjwSCE[\/youtube]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Bouchet showed me those two vintage videos of the early days of the CAVE : &#8220;(1991) before the CAVE was called &#8220;The CAVE&#8221; it was internally named the Pocket Cathedral (actually it was called the Closet Cathedral&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,17],"tags":[461,188,79,187,123,206,209],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}