Real-Time Interactive Simulation (RTIS) Living Lab
Virtual Worlds such as Second Life have many possible applications for industry and education. IDMC@SP has constructed a virtual version of the IDMC in Second Life. It contains virtual exhibits and virtual meeting spaces. IDMC@SP has also used Second Life as a platform to create Machinima.
Virtual Worlds become even more powerful when they are linked to the real physical world. One way we can do this through the use of real-time sensor inputs; for example, using WiiMotes to track movement in space and translating that into virtual movements in the Virtual World. We can make users see and feel the effects of motion in the Virtual Environment through instrument panels connected to the virtual world and motion platforms that move in synchrony with the simulation. At the Real-Time Interactive Simulation Living Lab (RTIS), we explore various aspects of simulations and virtual world technologies.
- RTIS Living Lab gallery
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Students working on Flight Simulation
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Motion Simulator
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Second Life IDMC
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Virtual World Hollywood
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