Visit these Technology Demonstrations

Demonstrations run from 10–12 noon and again at 1–3 PM at VRAC in 1640 Howe Hall on Friday, April 4th.

Augmented Reality
Andrew Koehring
Users will be able to pick up digital parts and build assemblies in an AR environment.

Fictions Demonstration
Valerie Williams
Fictions is both a dance performance and an interactive installation that allows users to manipulate video and sound with their movement. With the wave of a hand, you can alter video and create sound scapes.

Guard DV
CHI Design Team: Zayira Jordan, William Marsh, Andy Luse, & Eva Tao
GuardDV addresses the safety concerns of survivors of domestic violence who are homeless because of their flight from the home they share with an aggressor, warning the potential victim and police organizations about the physical proximity of the aggressor.

Haptics Demonstration
Adam Faeth
Release your creative spark on a virtual object that you can touch and manipulate with haptics. Use the stylus as a brush to paint the surface, as a virtual knife to cut it, and as a pinch to stretch it into completely new shapes.

Humvee Driving Simulation (In C6: 1:40–2:20 PM)
Jacob Peterson, Joe Bergeron, Chris Coudron
This collaborative simulation between different virtual environments takes advantage of off-the-shelf game technology and uses the Unreal Engine by Epic Games.

Medical Imaging (In C6: 11 AM–12 PM & 1–1:40 PM)
Eric Foo
In this virtual reality application, users can interact with and visualize medical image data, such as CT and MRI scans, as three-dimensional volumes, using a wireless game pad controller that intuitively maps buttons to specific functions. Users can change the types of tissues (bone/muscle/skin) rendered in real time and “slice” into the volume for a look inside the patient.

Medical Image Viewer (In C6: 11 AM–12 PM & 1–1:40 PM)
Catherine Peloquin & Marisol Martinez-Escobar
Demonstration will consist of a desktop medical image viewer linked to an immersive application. Data sets will be loaded into and manipulated in the desktop application and shown in the C6.

Touch Table
Prasad Ramanahally
The Touch Table will be demonstrated to show the table’s capability to directly interact with objects on screen and manage multiple simultaneous touch points.

Virtual Assembly
Daniela Faas
In this virtual assembly environment, the constant and subtle interaction that occurs during the manual assembly process is simulated, providing appropriate feedback to the user in real-time.

Virtual Harp
Tanasha Taylor
Using a haptic device, users can play a virtual harp in an augmented scene.

Virtual Universe (In C6: 9:45–11 & 2:20–3 PM)
Brandon Newendorp & Christian Noon
Users will be able to navigate through and explore a representation of a virtual universe, complete with galaxies, star systems, planets and other interstellar phenomena. The intent is to completely immerse the user in the synthetic environment, taking full advantage of all 6 walls in the C6 with it’s high resolution projectors.

VR Based Collaborative Teleoperation
Kumar Kadavasal
Watch as a remote vehicle is teleoperated from a virtual reality station. The teleoperated vehicle is semi-intelligent and can manage one or more unintelligent remote vehicles for collaboration on site.

Web2.0 Cyberinfrastructure Platform
Matt Heying
Visually design scientific and knowledge discovery workflows with drag-and-drop components developed using a web services approach.

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