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Unified Virtual Environment

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We have developed a new software framework for immersive visualization applications, the Unified Virtual Environment (UVE). Our framework transparently supports a variety of hardware environments through a device layer abstraction. Thus, an application may run in any supported environment without modification. We are also currently investigating the synergistic benefits of haptic scientific visualization using an integrated, semi-immersive virtual environment, the Visual Haptic Workbench. Shown here are example visualizations from UVE applications running on the Visual Haptic Workbench, a projected wall display, and the desktop.

Tornado dataset provided courtesy of R. Crawfis, The Ohio State University, and N. Max, Visualization Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

• Publications -- Unified Virtual Environment
• Image Gallery -- Unified Virtual Environment

Principal Researchers:

• Milan Ikits
• J. Dean Brederson