CAVI
is a project of the Alexandra Institutes (see previous post) and the Danish National Centre for IT research. You’ll note that CAVI also features under the list of research areas at the Centre for Pervasive Computing which features under the list of research areas for the Univeristy of Arhus Department of Computer Science and I am sure a number of other schools. The CAVI project is based at Arhus University. Its researach focus is on 3D mixed reality systems capable of incorporating stereoscopic visualization technologies (using shutter glasses and a number of innovative projection techniques) with the Bluscreen/Keying approach to inserting filmed objects into a virtual environment in real-time. These project provides for such innovations as the ability to track camera movements in sychronicity across virtual/real environments providing a ‘virtual’ or mixed reality studio in which an actors interaction in space can be captured in real-time. The obvious application of such visualization technologies in the production of design workshops and prototypes that allow a seamless interjection of objects within a virtual space – its also possible to imagine a next generation of mixed reality collaborative spaces, or simply new tele-presence environments – second life with real bodies – heaven forbid.
More coming on CAVI and the other research areas of The Centre for Pervasive Computing.