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Crane Ship Simulator

Lance Arsenault

Ali H. Nayfeh, Dean T. Mook and Ronald Kriz and Others

Status and Developments

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VT-CAVE Moved to New Building

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Crane Ship Simulator Drives the Need for Innovative Software

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DIVERSE

Device Independent Virtual Environments- Reconfigurable, Scalable, Extensible

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What is DIVERSE?

API for “Distributed Virtual Reality” applications

Desktop to CAVE™ without modification

Common interface to VE oriented hardware

Free open-source software

Runs on SGI and Linux

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The Two Parts of DIVERSE

DIVERSE graphics interface for Performer™ (dgiPf) 3D Virtual Environment (VE)

DIVERSE ToolKit (DTK) access to local and networked devices and

data

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dgiPf Provides:

Hardware abstractions Stereo/mono displays

Head tracked / fly view Reconfiguration without

program modification

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DTK Provides:

Server: remote shared memory based hardware interface

Library: uniform interface to services Client programs: manage server and

utilities

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DEMO

Linux laptop CAVE simulator