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Jason Leigh

was recently notified that he has been selected a University Scholar for 2011-2012. The University of Illinois created the University Scholars Program to honor and reward outstanding teachers and scholars. Awards are a symbol of the recipient's excellence and the University's commitment to foster outstanding people and their work. Jason Leigh was nominated by his peers and selected from a pool of talented nominees. (read more)


Cave

is a multi-person, room-sized, high-resolution 3D video and audio environment invented at EVL in 1991. Graphics are projected in stereo onto three walls and the floor, and viewed with active stereo glasses equipped with a location sensor. As the user moves within the display boundaries, the correct perspective is displayed in real-time to achieve a fully immersive experience. (read more)


Virtual Harlem

is a collaborative learning network for studying the Harlem Renaissance. In August 1999, the University of Illinois at Chicago contributed to the VHp by translating the Harlem experience to a fully immersive environment - the CAVE. Since then Virtual Harlem has been an experimental testbed for a diverse group of educators and researchers. (read more)


ImmersaDesk4

is built from 2 Apple 30" 2560 x 1600 LCD panels mounted with quarter-wave plates in front of the LCD panels to achieve circular polarization. The LCD panels are bisected by a half-silvered mirror which reverses the polarization of the top LCD panel. An optional 3D position and orientation tracking system can be attached to allow computers to project the correct viewer-centered stereoscopic imagery based on user's head position and orientation. (read more)


OptIPuter

is a five-year, $13.9 million NSF funded project to interconnect distributed storage, computing and visualization resources using photonic networks. The main goal of the project is to exploit the trend that network capacity is increasing at a rate far exceeding processor speed, at the same time plummeting in cost. (read more)


LambdaVision

is an ultra-high-resolution visualization and networking instrument for research and education in geoscience, computer science and other research disciplines. LambdaVision consists of 55 LCD panels tiled to produce a 100 Mpixel display. (read more)


LambdaTable

is a tiled LCD tabletop display connected to high-bandwidth optical networks that supports interactive group-based visualization of ultra-high-resolution data. The scalable multi-camera computer vision architecture is designed to track input from many simultaneous users interacting with different devices. (read more)


LifeLike

"Your body can't live forever but your mind still can -- as an avatar" (Jason Leigh). LifeLike investigates, develops and evaluates lifelike, natural computer interfaces as portals to intelligent programs in the context of Decision Support System (DSS). The goal is to provide a natural interface that supports realistic spoken dialog and non-verbal cues and is capable of learning to maintain its knowledge current and correct. Communication with the avatar will occur in spoken natural language combined with gestural expressions or pointing on the screen. (read more)


Daniel J. Sandin

Dan Sandin may be Co-founder and Director Emeritus of the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) and Professor Emeritus of the UIC School of Art & Design, but his retirement is simply a "repriorment" as he spends more time creating interactive art and advanced display technologies. Sandin's past and present accomplishments and his philosophy of art and what motivates him are nicely explained in a story written by a science journalism graduate student from NW University's Medill School. (read more)


Varrier

The Cylindrical Varrier display consists of 35 x 21" LCD panels tiled in a 7x5 configuration with a 6' x 8' footprint. This configuration has approximately 3000 lines of horizontal resolution and 6000 lines of vertical resolution. The horizontal angle of view is between 100 and 180 degrees. EVL's Varrier computational technique generates a real-time Virtual Reality stereo graphic experience. (read more)