Clip from a collaborative visualization session at KeckCAVES, between the CAVE and an HTC Vive head-mounted VR system. This clip was recorded by post-doc Dr. Carlye Peterson during a recent meeting of a multi-campus NSF-funded paleoceanography project involving UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. The project is investigating changes in global ocean flow patterns in response to change in global climate between the last ice age and today, based on differences of stable isotope distributions in benthic core samples collected at hundreds of sites across the globe.
The visualization software shown in this clip is 3D Visualizer, looking at combinations of 3D isotope field reconstructions superimposed over a high-resolution global bathymetry model. Collaboration between individual VR systems (in this case CAVE and Vive) is supported by the Vrui VR toolkit's collaboration infrastructure add-on. Remote users are embedded into each VR system as real-time, pseudo-holographic 3D video avatars captured by one or more 3D cameras integrated into each VR system.
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