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"There are Paleolithic and Mesolithic caves tucked away in many corners of the globe. There also are many CAVEs — cave automatic virtual environments — found in ­Austria, Japan and cities throughout the United States. But the very first — and trademarked — CAVE was built at the University of Illinois at Chicago and demonstrated in 1992. Today, UIC's Electronic Visualization Laboratory invites researchers, artists, students and other stakeholders to step into CAVE2 — a virtual reality environment unlike any other." Read the Full EDTECH Article Here

"Take a walk through a human  brain ? Fly over the surface of Mars? Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago are pushing science fiction closer to reality with a wraparound virtual world where a researcher wearing 3D glasses can do all that and more" Read Full Article Here CAVE2 got a nice amount of press coverage lately. Through open house days and other demos we already had hundred of visitors experiencing the system. It is great so see so many people excited about what we do in EVL!

Autumn Kulaga is a Biomedical Visualization student at UIC. During the fall 2012 semester, she developed an interactive visualization app for the OmegaDesk workstation at EVL. The application allows users to learn about the components of human blood, and view detailed models of them in 3D. Autumn designed a fully multimodal application, using both the touch screen and Kinect interface of the OmegaDesk platform. She developed the application as a python script in omegalib . See a video of her application here!

omegalib 3.3 integrates various changes merged from the 4.0 branch, mostly involving advanced GUI support, optimizations and GUI render-to-texture. Prebuilt version is much better on windows, and python scripts can now be launched from any directory on all platforms. Major revisions on cyclops shader, material and light support. C++ and python API documentation has also been updated to reflect 3.3 chances. A new page on the wiki lists python examples, here: https://code.google.com/p/omegalib/wiki/PythonExamples Major Changes omega various bugfixes  followTrackable moved from cyclops Entity to SceneNode ? Equalizer CUDA support disabled by default  ISceneObject >> NodeComponent ? SceneNode ? facing camera support  omegaToolkit removed obsolete SceneRenderable ? classes misc updated MakeDistro ? batch  updated examples  new examples  python scripts can run from any directory now  merged changes from v4.0 branc...